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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Oiso no Tora or Kewaizaka no Shosho, Disguised as a Female Komusu (?), in the Play Yui Kanoko Date-zome Soga (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1774 (?)

c. 1774
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)
31.3 × 14.3 cm (12.3 × 5.6 in)

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