Koinyōbō Somewake Tazune
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Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Date no Yosaku, husband and lover of Shigenoi.
He is dressed in an outer kimono of pale violet with under kimono of white, dark rose, and yellow-green. The color of his tonsure has now decomposed, but originally must have been pale blue.
This print is one of the less exaggerated ones in the series of bust-portraits; even the eyebrows are tame.
We have located six impressions in American collections and as there are no special problems connected with them we refer merely to the usual places of reproduction—Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 283, Rumpf number 14, Kurth, Noguchi and Nakata.
Ōban. Dark mica ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).
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