tinuity between the two of the detached cherry branch which is lower than the others fails to show clearly, though more of it can be seen here than is visible in the other print. A more nearly intact impression, reproduced in color in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 295, has been rephotographed for Rumpf number 120, and by Noguchi.
Hosoye. Background as in number 122. Signed: Sharaku.
Museum of Fine Arts (Spaulding Collection).
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Segawa Yūjirō II as the servant girl O-Towa.
We believe that this print should be placed where we have it and not at the extreme right end of the set, partly because the cherry branches of number 125 must come from this tree and would do so more naturally in this arrangement, and partly because the actor, though looking toward the left, is moving toward the right.
We have rephotographed the reproduction in Kurth as Rumpf did for his number 122. The coloring has not been described. Nakata reproduces a different impression, much trimmed on the left.
Hosoye. Background as in number 122. Signed: Sharaku.
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Segawa Tomisaburō II as another of the geisha in the entourage of Gengobei.
He is dressed in an outer kimono of faded purple and wears an obi that is mainly in green. The horizontal blue bands with white water motives on the background have lost their color, and while the print is in much better condition than number 122 is and than number 124 appears to be, the original tonality of the set can only be judged from number 123, which shows Gengobei himself.
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