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tani Hiroji III as Hata Daizen Taketora whose sister is shown in number 110.

This print forms a triptych with the two that follow it.

The hand-written inscription gives the name of the actor.

We have rephotographed the only known impression from the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 294 (color plate 81), as Noguchi did and as Rumpf has done in his number 99. Its present whereabouts is unknown.

The coloring in the Vignier-Inada reproduction shows an over garment mainly of brick red with black and yellow and an under kimono of faded purple. The curtains are of yellow bamboo with green and black trim and tassels of faded purple and rose.

Hosoye. Untinted ground with a raised curtain at the top. Signed: Sharaku.

egawa Tomisaburō II probably as Prince Koretaka disguised as a lady-in-waiting in the service of the Ōtomo.

The outer garment is violet with a design in white. The inner one is rose and white. The curtains are yellow with green and black trim. The tassels are rose and purple.

This central sheet of the triptych is not as rare as those on either side of it, for there are three impressions in America.

The subject is reproduced from one print, Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 294, Rumpf number 100, and by Noguchi. Kurth and Nakata use another.