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Japanese woodcut of six theatre masks on a dark blue panel, including horned red and blue demons and a white old man, with a standing figure at right.

Japanese masks: six masks of characters in Noh plays, including two representing a dog and a demon, with an old man shown on the right. Colour woodcut with pop-up flaps on strings, 1860/1920?.

A colour woodcut arranged as a dark blue panel of six theatre masks: a white fox-like face, red and blue horned demons, a pale old man, and a lion-like mask, with paper flaps hanging on strings. A standing man in a black hat and red-trimmed robe appears at right beside a vertical label.

Artist
Utagawa Kunisada II
Date
1860/[1920?]
Medium
Woodcuts Mokuhanga
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2436 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1930.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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