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Bandō Hikosaburō III as the obi-seller Chōyemon whose portrait in a different costume is shown as number 37, and Iwai Hanshirō IV who is enacting the part of Shinanoya O-Han, as he was in number 36.
Hikosaburō is dressed in an outer kimono of black and yellow stripes and an under one of sage green. His obi is purple and white. The white under garment is embossed. Hanshirō’s costume is in sage green with touches of coral and a second design in blue and white. The obi is white on a ground of purple and the under kimono is rose and white.
The print we exhibit was at one time in the Rouart Collection of Paris and was reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 332, from which Rumpf rephotographed it for his number 37. No other impression has been reproduced but there are two others in America.
Ōban. White mica ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
Fuller Collection.
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