devoted to a girl called Oman; all of which is very much as though a new play should be put on with the names of the chief characters Romeo and Juliet, but with the plot totally different from that of the Shakespearean drama. A more detailed discussion of the original form of the Gengobei-Koman story may be found in our introductory essay.
The four following prints, numbers 122 to 125, are parts of a pentaptych, the fifth sheet of which is unknown but in all probability represented Segawa Kikunojō as the geisha Koman. We have rearranged the order adopted by Rumpf for the surviving sheets and consider that the missing one came at the extreme left.
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