The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Ito Sota

A kabuki actor is shown mid-stride against a grey ground, his body wrapped in a black-and-white patterned robe with large kanji characters worked into the design, a red under-robe showing at the chest and leg, and a blue sash knotted at the waist. His face is painted with bold red and blue kumadori lines around the eyes, hair pulled up in a dark topknot with a coiled rope-like ornament behind the head, and he grips a long sword horizontally across his body with both hands. Snow-covered pine boughs frame the upper corners, with a red title cartouche reading "伊東杜太" in the upper right.