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atsumoto Kōshirō IV as Magoyemon and Nakayama Tomisaburō as Umegawa.

For other portraits of these two actors in the same parts see numbers 63 and 66.

Tomisaburō is dressed in a black outer robe with a design of white blossoms, and in a gray-green obi with a ground pattern of flowers and tendrils in rose and green. Kōshirō’s coat and tabi are in a purple-brown and the design on his coat is in black. His other garments are in gray-green and olive with touches of white and the same purple-brown used elsewhere.

The only impression of this print that has been reproduced hitherto is the more trimmed one rephotographed in Rumpf number 32, and in various Japanese books from the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 334. It is a rare subject but there are two other impressions in America, both of which are fine though neither is in quite such superb condition as the example shown.

Ōban. White mica ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.

Fogg Art Museum (Duel Collection).