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Nakajima Wadayemon as Migawori no Daizō, or Daizō the Substitute.
This print and the four that follow it form a pentaptych in which this is the left-hand sheet.
The haori and tabi are red-brown; the kimono is faded pale blue with lines of black crossed with fine white lines which are almost invisible now and a lining of faded rose. The trousers are faded pale blue and the sash faded rose.
An inscribed impression of the print is reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 298, and rephotographed as Rumpf number 123 and by Noguchi. Kurth uses a different one which is used again by Nakata. Both are in America. We have chosen the one that Kurth rephotographed from the two-volume Barboutau Catalogue, in spite of its stains, because the other is somewhat trimmed, and less fine in color.
Hosoye. Ground filled with design. Signed: Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).
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Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as the loyal retainer Hata Rokurōzayemon disguised as a bridegroom carrying dried fish and other things to eat at the wedding, and pretending to be Minagawa Shinzayemon.
His kimono is in two shades of red-brown and his kamishimo is a faded blue with white dots.
This is the second sheet of a five-sheet set, the other numbers of which precede and follow it.
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