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chikawa Komazō II as Ōyamada Tarō, the same part as that in which he is shown in Number 76.

In the cartouche below the personal mon of the actor are his house and poetry names Kōraiya and Kinshō.

The coloring of the kimono is now a fading violet. The under robe is rose, with a sleeve lining of yellow-green. The coloring of the tonsure has now decomposed, but originally was light blue.

There has been some doubt as to the proper attribution of the print, but in our opinion the question is settled by the peculiar and distinctive hair arrangement which also appears in the other portrait of Ōyamada Tarō referred to above.

There is no other impression in America, but another has been reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 253, and as Rumpf number 51.

Aiban. Yellow ground. Signed: Sharaku.

The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).