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Onoe Shoroku portrays Kudo Suketsune in this 1989 woodblock print, a companion to the January portrait of the same actor in the same villainous role. Suketsune is the target of the Soga Brothers' famous vendetta, a powerful lord whose murder of their father set the revenge plot in motion. In kabuki performance, the villain must be imposing enough to justify decades of pursuit — a figure of genuine menace and authority, not a mere caricature of evil. Kokei returns to this subject to capture a different facet of Shoroku's performance, the same character revealed from another angle or frozen at another dramatic moment.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Onoe Shoroku as Kudo Suketsune in the play was created by Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪) in 1989.
Onoe Shoroku as Kudo Suketsune in the play depicts kabuki.
