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Utagawa Kunisada I

The actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as Matsugae Matonosuke and Ichikawa Komazo VII as Nikki Danjo in the play "Konoshita Kage Masago no Datezome," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1855

1855
Color woodblock print; oban

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