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Kabuki drama Musume Dōjōji — role of the demon of Kiyohime by Ueno Tadamasa — Japanese Color woodblock print (ōban), 1952

Kabuki drama Musume Dōjōji — role of the demon of Kiyohime

by Ueno Tadamasa

Date:
1952
Medium:
Color woodblock print (ōban)

Description

A kabuki actor with pale blue-green kumadori makeup and fierce, wide-eyed expression crouches atop a large bronze temple bell studded with raised bosses. He wears a patchwork costume of red, yellow, black, and blue-and-white diamond patterns over pale blue-green limbs marked with dark scale-like bands, and grips a voluminous white outer robe patterned with pink peonies and green leaves that billows around him in sweeping folds. The figure is set against a plain grey-green background, with the artist's signature and seal in the upper right; the print is a color woodblock ōban by Ueno Tadamasa, 1952, depicting the role of the demon of Kiyohime from the kabuki drama Musume Dōjōji.

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Kabuki drama Musume Dōjōji — role of the demon of Kiyohime was created by Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅) in 1952.