Kozuka with Ichikawa Danjuro in the Play "Shibaraku"

Description This kozuka depicts Ichikawa Danjûrô as the hero from the short play "Shibaraku" (Wait a Moment). The play is one of the eighteen classics of kabuki and was regularly performed by successive actors with the name Ichikawa Danjûrô. In the play, the hero calls out "Wait a moment" from backstage and then appears to stop the villains. The hero wears red and white striped paint on his face and his costume exaggerates his size.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/18/1962	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] On kozuka: 龍池軒　英隨; [Translation] Ryûchiken Hideyuki

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters