Lot 350
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BUNCHO: hosoban (31.8 x 14.6cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hayano Kampei in a straw cloak holding a money bag in the night rain scene from Act V of the play Chushingura, performed at the Nakamuraza theater 4/1768, pale-blue background, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, a few minute worm holes restored
BUNCHO: hosoban (31.8 x 14.6cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hayano Kampei in a straw cloak holding a money bag in the night rain scene from Act V of the play Chushingura, performed at the Nakamuraza theater 4/1768, pale-blue background, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, a few minute worm holes restored

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BUNCHO: hosoban (31.8 x 14.6cm.); a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hayano Kampei in a straw cloak holding a money bag in the night rain scene from Act V of the play Chushingura, performed at the Nakamuraza theater 4/1768, pale-blue background, signed Ippitsusai Buncho ga--very good impression, good color, slightly soiled, a few minute worm holes restored

Lot Essay

Kampei is holding the money pouch belonging to his father-in-law Yoichibei who has just been murdered.