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akakiyama Sangorō II as Odae-Hime, the daughter of Michinaga.

The outer kimono is red and has a design of white fans with yellow, green and violet cords. The under kimono is in faded rose with patterns in violet and yellow. A red under garment is seen below. The trunk of the maple is printed in green and yellow, its leaves are in rose. The covering of the tonsure is violet. The lips are touched with rose.

This is the final sheet of a pentaptych of which the four preceding numbers are parts.

The inscribed impression (see number 94) gives the name of Fujikawa Murajirō, which probably is one used later by Sangorō the records of whose career are very meager. It is now in the Stoclet Collection of Brussels and is reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 297, Rumpf number 112, and by Noguchi. Kurth and Nakata use a different one; and this is the first print in the five-sheet set of which there are two impressions in America.

Hosoye. Untinted ground with decoration of maple leaves. Signed: Sharaku.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Mansfield Collection).