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

Museum of Fine Arts (Spaulding Collection).

andō Hikosaburō III as “Godaisaburō,” a gentleman whose more formal name was Goinosuke Munesada.

He is dressed in a blue-green kimono with kamishimo of yellow and faded violet lined with fading rose. The tonsure is in faded light blue. The curtains are of yellow bamboo with green and black trim and tassels of faded violet and rose.

This forms the right-hand sheet of a triptych with the two preceding numbers.

We exhibit the only impression in America and the existence of no other has been recorded. The print has been reproduced in plate 181 of the large Moslé Catalogue, as Rumpf number 101, and by Kurth and Nakata.

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

The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).