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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Yoshizawa Iroha I as Princess Yosooi (Yosooi Hime) in the Play Kikujido Shuen no Iwaya, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych
33 × 15.1 cm (13 × 5.9 in)

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