KIYONAGA: oban tate-e (39 x 26.1cm.); the right panel of a diptych, portraits of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko I as Agemaki and Ichikawa Yaozo III as a kamuro under a cherry tree, from the play Sukeroku kuruwa no natorigusa, performed at the Nakamuraza theater in the third month of Tenmei 4 (4/1784), signed Kiyonaga ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impression, very good color, slight creases along chain lines on the bottom, a minor soiling on upper left, minute stains near publisher's seal

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KIYONAGA: oban tate-e (39 x 26.1cm.); the right panel of a diptych, portraits of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko I as Agemaki and Ichikawa Yaozo III as a kamuro under a cherry tree, from the play Sukeroku kuruwa no natorigusa, performed at the Nakamuraza theater in the third month of Tenmei 4 (4/1784), signed Kiyonaga ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--good impression, very good color, slight creases along chain lines on the bottom, a minor soiling on upper left, minute stains near publisher's seal

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PUBLISHED:
Kabuki-e ni shibai o miru/Kabuki through theater prints, Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts: James A. Michener Collection (Tokyo: The Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1990), no. 50.