[Two men, possibly actors] - Public domain drawing
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Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Public domain photograph of 18th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Yakusha-e (役者絵), or "actor prints", are Japanese woodblock prints of kabuki actors, popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Prints, especially earlier ones, depict actors generically, and plainly, showing in a sense their true natures as actors merely playing roles. Other prints, meanwhile, take something of the opposite: they show kabuki actors and scenes elaborately, intentionally blurring the distinction between a play and the actual events it seeks to evoke.
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