# Album of Actor Portraits

- By: Shōrakusai (Japanese)
- Date: c. 1790–1810
- Medium: accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper
- Classification: Bound Volume
- Dimensions: Album, opened: 28.1 x 42 cm (11 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Kelvin Smith Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.105)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1988.105/1988.105_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The paintings in this album show Kabuki actors costumed for their roles in a variety of plays. The characters are identified in the paper cartouches affixed to the paintings. While each painting is on silk that has been pasted into the album, the poems on some of the facing pages have been written in ink directly onto the page.