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Katsukawa Shunkо̄

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Taira no Munekiyo (?) from the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1780 (?)

c. 1780
Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a triptych (?)
30.5 × 14.6 cm (12 × 5.7 in)

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