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Ōtani Hiroji III as Tosa no Matahei and Arashi Ryūzō as Ukiyo Matahei. For separate portraits of these two actors in the same parts see the immediately preceding numbers. It is interesting to observe the similarities in the drawing of the heads as well as in the textiles.
The costumes are the same as those in which we have just seen the two actors represented separately; and the coloring of the subject now under discussion has been described as follows: “Hiroji is in a green outer garment patterned in white. His collar is yellow and red. He wears red under garments with a black collar. His obi is red and green with wistaria sprays. Ryūzō is in brown with a white pattern and his skirt is red, patterned in yellow. The collar is white with green bamboo, the under collar is black.”
The two known impressions of this print now are in Japan. One is reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 329, Rumpf number 35, and the catalogue of the Matsukata Collection, plate 41, from which we have rephotographed it. The other is reproduced in the catalogue of the loan exhibition of 1930 of prints from the collection of Mr. A. S. Mihara of Tokyo. The Mihara print is less trimmed than the Matsukata one, but the reproduction of it would be harder to photograph.
Ōban. White mica ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
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