This is Iwasa Matabei

Iwasa Matabei (Japanese: 岩佐 又兵衛, romanized: Iwasa Matabē; original post Araki Katsumochi 1578 – July 20, 1650) was a Japanese performer of the early Tokugawa period, who specialized in genre scenes of historical deeds and illustrations of classical Chinese and Japanese literature, as skillfully as portraits. He was the son of Araki Murashige, a prominent daimyō of the Sengoku epoch who had been made to commit suicide, leaving Matabei to be raised like his mother’s relatives name, Iwasa.

Matabei’s piece of legislation was noted for its distinctive figures, with large heads and delicately drawn features, and he was full of life both in colour and monochrome ink-wash painting, using an individual brush technique combining Tosa and Kanō elements. Although trained by Kanō Naizen of the Kanō school, he was more influenced by the traditions of the Tosa school, and signed a late series of portraits of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals (1640) commissioned by the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu for a temple as “the performer Matabei of the far ahead current from Tosa Mitsunobu”. His enactment is often regarded as a major influence on the developing ukiyo-e school of painting, which is possibly because of confusion bearing in mind an ukiyo-e artiste character with the thesame name (Ōtsu no Matabei) in a affect by Chikamatsu. Also, he used often to be approved as the painter of a well-known early ukiyo-e screen known as the Hikone screen, but this is now considered incorrect. In fact his “patrons … were so tall in the social hierarchy that it is difficult to put in the works with that Matabei could have created the Ukiyo-e tradition”,^{[attribution needed]} and he is enlarged regarded as a “great independent artiste of the Tosa tradition”.^{[attribution needed]}

His son Katsushige (d. 1673) was as well as a painter, known for dancing figures in a style in imitation of that of his father.