Natori Shunsen (Japan, 1886-1960) Print, dai oban tate-e, yakusha-e, from the series Sōsaku hanga Shunsen nigao-e shū (創作版画春仙似顔絵集), Shunsen Portrait Collection, Sawada Shōjirō 'Ken' no Hayashi Buhei (沢田正二郎「剣」の林武平), Sawada Shōjirō in the role of the warrior Hayashi Buhei. Signed Shunsen and stamped Bichosai. Publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō and stamp. Approval stamp of the artist Natori in the lower left margin. Size 40 x 26.9 cm Original dust jacket. Shunsen depicts the actor Sawada Shōjirō (1892-1929) as the warrior Hayashi Buhei. Sawada was the founder of the New National Drama (Shin Kokugeki), which performed plays by contemporary playwrights. Reference: This print reproduced in: Uhlenbeck, Dwinger, Ouweleen, Shin hanga: Les Estampes Modernes du Japon 1900-1960, Éditions Hazan (2022), p.130 A similar print in the Honolulu Museum of Art, no. 26576