Posted by Horst Graebner (178.4.22.168) on August 10, 2020 at 21:11:54:
In Reply to: Can you help identifying this image? posted by Tony Jarrett on August 10, 2020 at 03:09:46:
It’s the left sheet of a half-length actor triptych by Kunisada I, here signing „ōju Toyokuni ga“: Sawamura Sōjūrō V (left), Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII (front) and Bandō Shūka I (top) as Jūrō, Gorō and Maizuru (all mitate). Publisher is Iseya Kanekichi (here seal trimmed off), censor seals Hama and Magome, carver seal hori kō Takejirō/hori Take (also trimmed off), date c. 1850/51.
Horst