scabbard of his sword, his waist-band, and the bundle he is holding in his mouth are of varying tones of red-orange. The post and foreground are in tones of yellow and the river probably once was in that peculiarly evanescent blue which so seldom remains unchanged.
This design by Sharaku has been entirely unrecorded hitherto, and no other impression of it is known. On the back of the print there is a collector’s seal reading Hō Sū Kaku. We reproduce it with number 86 as part of a triptych, the left-hand sheet of which does not appear to have survived.
Hosoye. Gray ground. Signed: Sharaku.
Ledoux Collection.
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