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Iwai Hanshirō as Shinanoya O-Han, the girl loved by Chōyemon whose portrait we shall see in the print that follows.
We place this as the left-hand sheet of a triptych, the central and right-hand parts of which are numbers 37 and 38. In the ōban number 39 we find O-Han once more, but with her lover; and in that print she is shown with the same hair arrangement and the same design in her under kimono and her obi, though the outer kimono has been changed.
The only recorded impression of the subject now under discussion is in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. It has been reproduced by Kurth from whom we have rephotographed it, as Rumpf did for his number 76, and as others have done. Rumpf describes the coloring as outer kimono gray with stripes, under kimono rose and white, obi orange-red and white.
Hosoye. Yellow ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
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Bandō Hikosaburō III as the obi-seller Chōyemon, the same rôle as that in which we shall see him again, but somewhat differently dressed, in number 39.
This is the central sheet of the triptych of which the preceding and the following prints form the remaining parts.
The outer robe is in black with green stripes and it bears the actor’s mon in blue and white. The kimono below that is in blue with green stripes. On the innermost one, however, the stripes are black against a ground of yellow. The obi is green and yellow. The pipe is rose and yellow, and there is a touch of rose in the lining of one sleeve.
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