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chikawa Komazō II, again as Minase no Rokurō Munezumi, but this time disguised as a pilgrim. From his staff he has drawn a sword.

This print looks as though it had been designed as the right-hand sheet of a triptych, and if that was the fact, the remaining portions probably showed some one of the sudden dangers with which the little band of disguised fugitives were confronted while Munezumi and Hyōgonosuke were trying to lead Yoshioki’s wife and child to a place of safety, beyond the reach of Ashikaga Takauji.

The subject was reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 321, from an impression then in the Vever Collection and now in that of Mr. Matsukata, from plate 39 of whose catalogue we have rephotographed it. The same print appears again as Rumpf number 58. No other impression is known, nor has the coloring been described.

Hosoye. Yellow ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.