“Sharaku’s Caricatures,” from the series: A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo

Paul Binnie Scottish

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A young male model twists his body and spreads his hands to echo the dynamic image tattooed on his back, which is based on Tōshūsai Sharaku’s famous half-length portrait of Ōtani Oniji III (1794). The mask in the title cartouche is a caricature of the face of the famous Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizō V. Beneath the artist’s signature is a rebus of the artist’s own face, comprising the stylized shapes of the letters of his fullname in English.

“Sharaku’s Caricatures,” from the series:  A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo, Paul Binnie (Scottish, born 1967), Woodblock print; ink, color, on paper; large vertical ōban, Japan

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