Japanese best woodblock print - reproduction - Sharaku - 1794 - Kabuki actor

Reproduction of Original Japanese woodblock print - Yukiyo-e
Artist: Syaraku, c.1753 - 1806
Title: Actor Segawa Kikunojô 3rd as Oshizu, the Wife of Tanabe Bunzô from the Play "Hana-Ayame Bunroku Soga" (Miyako-za).
Date: Late Edo period, 1794 (5th month)
Dimensions: 33.5cm x 23cm (13.2" x 9.1")
This is a re-carved edition produced in 1973, Showa period.

Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active best 1794–1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known. His active career as a woodblock artist spanned ten months; his prolific work met disapproval and his output came to an end as suddenly and mysteriously as it had begun. His work has come to be considered some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.