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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Iwai Kiyotaro II as Lady Itohagi (?) in the Play Genji Saiko Kogane Tachibana (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1788 (?)

c. 1788
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
30.8 × 13.8 cm (12.1 × 5.4 in)

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