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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Arashi Hinaji I (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II (left), as Princess Sakura (Sakura Hime) (?) and Shimizu Tonoinosuke (?), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1769 (?)

c. 1769
Color woodblock print; hosoban
29.1 × 15.3 cm (11.5 × 6 in)

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