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Nakajima Wadayemon as Tambaya Hachiyemon, one of Chūbei’s clients from whom he had stolen money, telling the story of the theft.
We owe the identification to the documents in Boston; and we might add that the papers visible in the picture are those which prove Chūbei’s guilt.
This print seems to have formed the central sheet of a triptych with number 65 at its right. The left-hand sheet probably showed another female figure, but may possibly have been the portrait of Magoyemon which we have placed separately as number 63.
The impression here reproduced is rephotographed from the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 311, as Rumpf rephotographed it for his number 60, and as others have done. It was once in the Mutiaux Collection in Paris. Its present location is unknown. The coloring has not been described.
Hosoye. Yellow ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
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Matsumoto Yonesaburō as O-Tsuyu, a waitress in a tea-house.
We place this print with the one that precedes it as the right-hand sheet of a triptych, the left end of which is lost or not definitely identified.
Neither of the two recorded impressions is in America and we have rephotographed from Kurth, as Noguchi did, the one in the Kunstgewerbemuseum of Berlin which Benesch reproduces in color, showing a black obi and neckpiece over a brick red outer kimono above which is a yellow apron patterned in white. The yellow of the under kimono and of the stand carried by the girl is of a different tone from those used in the apron and for the background of the print. The other known impression is in poor condition but is reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 310, as Rumpf number 78, and by Nakata.
Hosoye. Yellow ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
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