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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yaegushi no Oroku (?) in the Play Keisei Kogane no Hakarime (?), Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1792 (?)

c. 1792
Color woodblock print; hosoban
31.6 × 14.2 cm (12.4 × 5.6 in)

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