Delicate Makeup in Fashion

Delicate Makeup in Fashion is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Kunisada in the 1830s.

Woodcut print oban diptych format. From the series "Jisei usugesho" (Delicate makeup in fashion). An actor prepares himself for a role as Onnagata in a Shosagoto play, with the ghost characters of the sister Matsukaze and Murasame. He sits in front of a makeup table and applies makeup to his eyebrows, behind him on a black lacquer shelf seal with the character Sada.

Signature Gototei Kunisada ga. Publisher: Mikawaya Seiemon. Censorship: Kiwame. Moderate impression, faded, creased, lightly soiled, repaired wormholes at margins, creases.

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