Lot 356
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SHUNSHO: hosoban (31.4 x 14.8cm.); the right panel of a diptych, a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the spirit of the courtesan Yatsuhashi in the play Sono utsushi-e matsu ni kaede, performed at the Morita theater 8/1772, signed Shunsho ga--very good impression, slightly faded
SHUNSHO: hosoban (31.4 x 14.8cm.); the right panel of a diptych, a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the spirit of the courtesan Yatsuhashi in the play Sono utsushi-e matsu ni kaede, performed at the Morita theater 8/1772, signed Shunsho ga--very good impression, slightly faded

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SHUNSHO: hosoban (31.4 x 14.8cm.); the right panel of a diptych, a full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the spirit of the courtesan Yatsuhashi in the play Sono utsushi-e matsu ni kaede, performed at the Morita theater 8/1772, signed Shunsho ga--very good impression, slightly faded

Lot Essay

The left panel of the diptych shows Nakamura Noshio I as the spirit of the courtesan Takao. For another impression of this right panel see Louis V. Ledoux, Japanese Prints by Harunobu and Shunsho in the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux (New York: E. Weyhe, 1945), pl. 47.