Art Archive • Sharaku
Ukiyo-e
Ōkubi-e
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Komazō III as Shiga Daishichi in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge
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Tōshūsai Sharaku. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
About this work
Shiga Daishichi from A Medley of Tales of Revenge — a revenge-play hero emerging from mica like a mask lifted toward the audience.
Ichikawa Komazō III plays Shiga Daishichi in A Medley of Tales of Revenge. The portrait belongs to Sharaku’s darker, katakiuchi-themed group from late 1794.
Viewing notes
Connect this face to other revenge-play entries in the same publishing burst.
Watch how Sharaku uses brow mass to signal moral seriousness without blood props.
Zoom ink lines at the hair edge where wig meets skin — a kabuki realism cue.
Extended Japanese viewing notes: 三代目市川高麗蔵の志賀大七.