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KIYONAGA: oban tate-e (38.6 x 26cm.); a portrait of the actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ninnaji Saibei, Segawa Kikunojo III as Yamauba and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Kintoki in front of three chanters at the back of the stage (degatari), from the play Shitenno Oeyama iri, performed at the Kiriza theater in the eleventh month of Tenmei 5 (1785), signed Kiyonaga ga and published by Nishimuraya Yohachi--very good impression, slightly faded and soiled, slightly creased, horizontal and vertical fold lines, a few minor restorations