Posted by Horst Graebner (178.4.66.226) on December 01, 2020 at 21:32:00:
In Reply to: pipe smoker posted by Fabrice Bonin on November 30, 2020 at 11:58:43:
It's the right sheet of a half-lenght kabuki triptych by Kunichika.
Depicted is Ichikawa Kuzō III (市川九蔵) as Koguya Yahei (香具屋弥兵衛) in the play “Iromochi Gusa Ukina no Koiguchi“, performed in 8/1879.
You find the complete triptych here:
http://www.hankyu-bunka.or.jp/archive/?app=shiryo&mode=detail&list_id=78&data_id=219044
http://www.hankyu-bunka.or.jp/archive/?app=shiryo&mode=detail&list_id=75&data_id=219043
http://www.hankyu-bunka.or.jp/archive/?app=shiryo&mode=detail&list_id=72&data_id=219042
Horst