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Nakayama Tomisaburō as O-Hide, sister of Abe no Sadatō and wife of Gengō Narishige, the same rôle as that of number 85.
The outer kimono is white with stripes of faded violet. The under kimono is dull rose, the obi black. The straw rain-coat is in pale yellow, as is the foreground.
This print and the next are two of the subjects which we have the good fortune to add to the previously known works of Sharaku. They form the central and right-hand sheets of a triptych, the left-hand sheet of which has failed to survive even in a single impression.
The print now being considered came into the Doucet Collection in time to be mentioned in a footnote of the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, but too late to be exhibited or reproduced. Rumpf records it from that note under his number 134, as a print of which he had heard but which he could not describe or reproduce. The seal of the Doucet Collection identifies the impression we show as the same one, and apparently there is no other.
Hosoye. Gray ground. Signed: Sharaku.
Fuller Collection.
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Morita Kanya VIII as Kawachi Kanja, disguised as Genkaibō, (Ajari Genkai), and acting as a spy.
On the post is written “Inasegawa” which is the name of the river shown in the background. The scene has to do with a struggle for the possession of a seal that had been hidden in or near Inamura-ga-saki and that the actor here is holding in his mouth.
Kanya is wearing a gray kimono under a tattered over-robe of black. The
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