To-bo-saku, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

A Noh actor stands frontally in an elaborate robe patterned with dark gold roundels on cream, worn over a black under-robe stenciled with a lighter gray-black repeating motif; lavender drapery frames the shoulders and hips. He wears a shaggy white wig or beard beneath a tall lavender-and-gold peaked headdress with looping ornaments, and his mask has a pink face with a pronounced pale brow. In the upper left, a separate vertical panel depicts a long-tailed bird (phoenix-like) in red, white, and green swooping downward against a pale lavender ground; Japanese text runs along the top and right margins of the cream background. The print is titled "To-bo-saku," from Tsukioka Kōgyo's series *Nogaku Zue* ("Pictures of Noh Performances"), 1893.