The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1792

A single standing kabuki actor in three-quarter view, wearing a black outer robe patterned with a fine grid over a white and mustard-yellow under-kimono decorated with scrolling floral motifs; a striped sash crosses his chest. He grips an orange-red staff in one hand and carries a pale green woven basket on his back, with a large woven hat or bundle at his hip; his hair is pulled into a topknot with loose strands falling near his face, and his expression is stern, with brows drawn together and mouth downturned. He stands on a bare wood-grained floor rendered in yellow-green against a plain tan background, with the artist's signature and red seal in the upper left; this is Katsukawa Shunshō's 1787 color woodblock print (hosoban) depicting Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune disguised as a komusō, the center sheet of a triptych for the play performed at the Ichimura Theater.