Noguchi did, from the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 293, a slightly trimmed impression formerly in the Vever Collection and now in that of Mr. Matsukata.
Hosoye. Background as in the preceding number. Signed: Sharaku.
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Bandō Hikosaburō III as Kudō Suketsune, the villain of the tragic story. This is the right-hand sheet of the triptych.
The peculiar hair arrangement used on the Kabuki stage to indicate malefactors of high rank may be seen again here.
Once more we have been obliged to rephotograph a print now in the Matsukata Collection from the reproduction in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 293. Rumpf uses for his number 118 the same trimmed impression, and Noguchi publishes it again. The only other known to the writers of this catalogue is in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde at Leiden. The coloring has not been described.
Hosoye. Background as in number 119. Signed: Sharaku.
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