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Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Daidoji Tabatanosuke in the Play Mukashi Mukashi Tejiro no Saru, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1792

c. 1792
Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)
31 × 13.9 cm (12.2 × 5.5 in)

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