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Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Oiso no Tora (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?)

c. 1775
Color woodblock print; hosoban
32.4 × 14.8 cm (12.8 × 5.8 in)

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