Even today, a shrimp tempura on the head is considered somewhat unusual --even more so in the Edo Period, when this portrait of Kabuki actor Otani Oniji III (三代目大谷鬼次) was painted by Toshusai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽). It is the sign of a tempura izakaya in Kanagawa's Fujisawa (藤沢) --I won't comment on the slogan in the end.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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