Man looks over a curtain; Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danj鹯?VII (1791-1859) dressed for his 'Shibaraku' role; looks over a curtain with three ropes at the top. Scene from the play 'Shitenn?; performed several times in the 1820s in the Tamagawa theater in Edo. With one poem about the Kiba district where Danj鹯?lived: The piles of wood sing a song in tune with the songbird and the rhythm of the frogs - Spring has arrived in Kiba.; Utagawa Kunimitsu (mentioned on object); Japan; c. 1820; paper; polishing; h 203 mm x w 182 mm