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Japan: The Kabuki actor Ichimura Kakitsu as a tattooed samurai warrior. Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920), 1863

Japan: The Kabuki actor Ichimura Kakitsu as a tattooed samurai warrior. Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920), 1863

Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞, 1848–1920) was an ukiyo-e printmaker of the Utagawa school, specializing in yakusha-e (pictures of kabuki actors).

He began studying under Utagawa Kunisada I at the age of 10, and continued under Kunisada II after their master's death.

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