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Mizuemon Fujikawa
Sharaku Toushusai

38 × 25 cm - Same as Original Size

Mizuemon Fujikawa from Kabuki Play

Mizuemo is known as treasonable villain in the Kabuki play. Sharaku impressively drew this terribly bad man and this picture is known as the best masterpiece among his half body chart. As for the kimono, the color is very sober, but this emphasizes the impressive face description. Protruding face is scaring and we can feel his evil. it seems like he is looking at us sharply and is about to seize us by the collar. Anyway, this is the picture that Sharaku's spirit is in it.

Who is Sharaku Toushusai?

Sharaku Toushusai is a kind of inscrutable woodprint master. His Ukiyo-e is very well know and highly reputable, but little is known of him. His true name and the dates of his birth or death are not known with any certainty. It is said that his active career as a woodblock artist was just for ten months in the mid-Edo period.

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