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Okumura Masanobu

The Actor Tomizawa Montaro I as Miyako no Mae in the play "Izu Genji Horai Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1736

1736
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
31.5 × 15 cm (12.4 × 5.9 in)

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