Man looks over a curtain, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danj?r? 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?r? 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 ⊙ w 182 mm.