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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V, Probably as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Sanjo Uemon, Leader of a Robber Gang, in Part Two of the Play Fude-hajime Kanjincho (First Calligraphy of the New Year: Kanjincho [The Subscription List]), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1784

c. 1784
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych (?)
29 × 13.2 cm (11.4 × 5.2 in)

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