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Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko as Agemaki, and Ichikawa Ebizo as Agemaki's attendant in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1784

1784
Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych
35.4 × 24.4 cm (13.9 × 9.6 in)

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