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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Honcho-maru Tsunagoro (?) in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1777 (?)

c. 1777
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych
31.9 × 14 cm (12.6 × 5.5 in)

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