Posted by Horst Graebner (88.69.156.18) on March 20, 2011 at 08:59:27:
In Reply to: Re: Kunisada actor Chuban - commemoratio posted by Noel Chiappa on March 19, 2011 at 22:57:16:
Hi,
the print is by Kunisada I, signed ’Toyokuni ga’. It belongs to the series ’Toyokuni hyakushu’ (One hundred portraits by Toyokuni), depicted are Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I and Nakamura Shikan IV (top) as Jihizō and Jokozō in the play ’Honchō nijūshikō’, performed at the Ichimura theatre. Date is 2/1862 and publisher Wakasaya Yoichi.
Horst