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Yamashita Kinsaku II as Iwate, the wife of Abe no Sadatō, here disguised probably as the nakai, or maid, O-Kane.
The actor’s house and poetry names as given under his private mon in the cartouche are: Tennōjiya and Rikō.
For other portraits of Kinsaku in this play see numbers 89 and 91.
In this print he wears a kimono and tonsure covering of light violet. His under kimono is rose and white. The collar is coated with mica. The comb is in soft yellow and there are touches of rose at the corners of the eyes.
The slightly trimmed impression reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 256, appears again as Rumpf’s number 46. Kurth and Nakata use a different one. There are three in American collections.
Aiban. Yellow ground. Signed: Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago. (Buckingham Collection).
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