Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Buddhist Deity Fudô in “Rethatched Roof: The Moon Also Shines over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District” (“Fuke Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara”)

Katsukawa Shunsho records Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist deity Fudo Myoo in 'Fuke Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara' (Rethatched Roof: The Moon Also Shines over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), one of the role types most closely associated with the Ichikawa Danjuro lineage. Fudo, the immovable wisdom king of Esoteric Buddhism, was a foundational subject of the Ichikawa house, and Edo audiences anticipated each new Danjuro performance of the role as a renewal of a generational covenant between the actor's family and the deity. Shunsho's design portrays Danjuro V with the deity's signature attributes - sword and rope, fierce expression, flaming aureole reduced or implied within the print's compositional logic - while preserving the actor's recognizable physiognomy. The result is a definitive Edo ukiyo-e yakusha-e in which religious iconography and personal celebrity intersect, embodying the central insight of the Katsukawa school that an actor portrait should record both who is on the stage and what role they are inhabiting. The play title itself, with its overlap of pleasure-district setting and Buddhist register, captures kabuki's habit of stitching together sacred and profane registers for dramatic charge. The print is held by the Art Institute of Chicago and stands as a representative Katsukawa school treatment of one of the most heavily freighted roles in Edo kabuki, with Danjuro V's performance of Fudo serving as a touchstone for the lineage's claim to the role.