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Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro III (right) as Shirokiya Okoma and Matsumoto Koshiro V (left) as her lover Saiza

c. 1816
Color woodblock prints; two sheets of an oban triptych
36.2 × 23.9 cm (14.3 × 9.4 in)

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