Striptease at the Nichigeki theatre

A woman with bobbed hair dances on a spotlit stage, twisting at the waist with one arm raised and the other drawing a length of fabric across her body, her figure caught mid-turn in bold black-and-white contrast. Beams of light rake diagonally across the dark background, illuminating rows of seated spectators in hats below the stage at right and a group of uniformed figures at left; a second, smaller performer stands on a platform in the deep background at right. This mokuhanga print by Fumio Kitaoka depicts Striptease at the Nichigeki Theatre, signed in pencil below the image alongside the artist's carved monogram.