Lot 768: f - TÔSHÛSAI SHARAKU, (FL.1794-95), 1794

OTANI TOKUJI AS MONOGUSA TARO

hosoban, 32 by 14.2cm., 12 1/2 by 5 9/16 in.

a full length portrait of the actor set against a yellow ground, is shown in farmer's garb and carrying an oar, in the play Keisei sanbon karakusa, performed in the 7th month of Kansei 6 [1794] at the Miyako-za, censor's seal kiwame, publisher's mark of Tsutaya Juzaburo, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga

Condition Note: Very good impression and colour, slightly soiled and foxed with a few pin holes

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LITERATURE

UTSS vol.7, pl.68; Rumpf, no.55; Riccar 1981, no.11; Narasaki (Kodansha) 1983, no.16

NOTE

This design represents the left sheet of a triptych, with Sakata Hangoro III as Kosodate on the right and Ichikawa Tomiemon as Inokuma Monbei in the centre