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Utagawa Toyokuni I

Otawaya: Onoe Matsusuke I as Oboshi Yuranosuke, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

1795
Color woodblock print; oban
38.1 × 23.5 cm (15 × 9.3 in)

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