Kitsunetadanobu「狐忠信」（きつねただのぶ）

There are many kinds of ukiyo-e（浮世絵）such as beautiful women's paintings （美人画）and landscape paintings（風景画）, but more than half of them are actors' paintings （役者絵）that include this work. The actors' drawings depict kabuki and actors. The author is Kuniyoshi Utagawa(歌川国芳)was an active ukiyo-e artist（浮世絵師）in the late Edo period. The characteristic of his work is quirky. For example, his works include bold composition, personification, and Western-style expressions. In this work, "Fox Tadanobu(狐忠信)," the fourth stage of "Yoshitsune Senbonzakura(義経千本桜)," a masterpiece by Kuniyoshi Utagawa, is depicted. In addition, this work expresses a scene in which a little fox who has lost its parents returns to its old home with joy by adding a drum of Hatsune(初音の鼓)received from Yoshitsune. This work is characterized by Kuniyoshi's compositional skill. Kuniyoshi used perspective(遠近法) to add a sense of dynamism to this work.