KUNISADA: kakuban surimono (19.6 x 17.1 cm.); a large grey rat holding a scroll in its mouth, representing a scene from the play Banzai Okuni kabuki where an actor in the role of Nikki Danjo is transformed into a rat, two poems above blind-printed and applied with brass dust by Kaoen Tokunari and Shibaen Morizuna, signed Gototei Kunisada ga in brass dust, toshidama seal--very good impression, good color, strip of rubbing across lower edge, short vertical crease