A FINE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK KABUKI PRINT BY UENO TADAMASA. 1941
This fine design is part of a series entitled Eighteen Kabuki Makeups (Kabuki kumadori juhachi ban) published by the celebrated publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo in 1941, this design titled "the Two Line Makeup of Matsuo. This was a superb series of which this design is probably the most striking. Tadamasa Ueno (1904-1970) is known for his dramatic kabuk ...click for details