鳥居清広画 初代目尾上菊五郎|Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugorō I in The Belle of Asakusa Temple (Keisei Asakusa no Kane)
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From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
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From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
This print shows a man in bright, patterned robes holding a folding screen. He’s standing outside, with a bamboo fence and a tree behind him. His face is painted in a dramatic style, and he’s wearing tall sandals. The artist used cross-hatching—tiny parallel lines—to add shading and depth to the clothes and screen. This was a common trick in woodblock prints to create texture. Look up cross-hatching next to see how artists use simple lines to make images pop.
