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Nakayama Tomisaburō as O-Hide, sister of Abe no Sadatō, and wife of Gengō Narishige who was killed by him and who is shown in number 82.
In the cartouche below the actor’s personal mon are his house and poetry names, Ōmiya and Kinsha.
Here he is dressed in an outer kimono of light and dark violet stripes and a black collar coated with lacquer. The under kimono is strong rose with a white collar mica-coated. The obi is light blue and the mon on the towel is white on blue. The covering of the tonsure is printed in violet. The lips are touched with rose. The comb is mainly in white with yellow teeth.
It should be noted that Herr Rumpf has suggested that the rôle depicted is that of Goyemon’s wife in the play Tokiwa Ima Kuruwa No Hanamichi, which was performed at the Kiri-za in the third month of 1795. As far as can be told from the print itself it might depict either rôle, but we are placing it here because we can find no other print that we think should be attributed to the later play and because the outer kimono shown in it resembles in pattern and in color that which Tomisaburō is wearing in the following print which certainly has to do with the production now under discussion.
Another impression, much trimmed, has been reproduced as Rumpf number 47, and in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 252. There is one other in America.
Aiban. Yellow ground. Signed: Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).
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