The Genroku Pose in Shibaraku

A kabuki actor in a wide-legged crouching pose fills the composition, his face painted with bold red-and-black kumadori lines and his hair styled into stiff, jagged black spikes. He wears a padded white robe over layered green, blue-striped, and red garments, with a long striped blue-and-white bundle slung over one shoulder and a sword thrust through his sash, one hand raised and splayed beside his head. Behind him, oversized geometric kimono shapes patterned with nested white diamonds fan outward against a mottled reddish-brown ground flecked with gold, with a red artist's seal at lower right; the print is Paul Binnie's 1994 kappazuri (stencil print) "The Genroku Pose in Shibaraku," on reddish-brown hosho paper.