My Great-great grandfather (my grandfather's grandfather) was a Noh-ga and Butsu-ga artist. Noh-ga is art for Noh, classical Japanese musical drama. These sketches are portrait for Noh actors. Butsu-ga is "painted representations of buddhist deities", and it refers to all paintings that have some relationship to Buddhism. According to my grandmother, these were done around 1930's. I wanted to share these works here because they are absolutely stunning.
