TOYOKUNI: oban tate-e (37.7 x 25.2 cm.); a full length portrait of the actor Segawa Kikunojo in the female role of Ohama in the play Hana no miyako kuruwa no nawabari, performed at the Miyako theatre 11/1794, wearing a green outer robe and red and pink inner robes with a black obi patterned with blind-printed fretwork, from the series Yakusha butai sugata-e "An almanac of actors on the stage" with personal name of the actor, Hamamuraya, below, signed Toyokuni ga and published by Izumiya Ichibei--very good impression, good color, mica highlights on ground, faint horizontal and diagonal creases and a few random stains, binding holes and minor worming restored right edge