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A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from a theatrical picture-book.

Right-Hand Page: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo III as Soga no Goro (right), and Segawa Kikunojo IV as Onna Asahina (left), in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga; Left-hand Sheet: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Furugori Shinzaemon (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V and Kagekiyo (right) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

Japan

Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from a theatrical picture-book

Arts of Asia