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andō Mitsugorō II as the retainer Hachiyemon.

In the cartouche under Mitsugorō’s personal mon are his house and poetry names Yamatoya and Zegyō.

The actor now has changed from the costume and hair arrangement appropriate to the rôle of Soga no Gorō in which he is shown in number 120, and is playing the rôle of a retainer of Satsuma no Gengobei whom we have seen in numbers 123 and 126.

We have rephotographed from the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 259, as Rumpf did for his number 48, the only known impression which was at one time in the Rouart Collection in Paris and now is in that of Mr. Matsukata in Kobe. The coloring has not been described.

Aiban. Yellow ground. Signed: Sharaku.