Original Ryoshu Yamaguchi 1886-1966 Japanese Woodblock "Kyogen Theatre Actors Artist signed and sealed. Measures: 13.5'' x 18.5'' Yamaguchi Ryôshû was born in Kyoto in 1885. His real name was Keizo Furuzawa. He was adopted into a famous Kyogen actors family, the Yamaguchi family of Hongan-ji (temple). After that he studied Noh with Shigeyama Sengorô X and Shigeyama Sengorô XI and he became a Noh actor. In the early years of the 20th century he had also studied painting with Taniguchi Kôkyô (1864-1915), and subsequently he made paintings and designed woodblock prints with Noh and Kyogen subjects for Kyoto Hanga-in after WWII. (source: Saru Gallery)