Author: Utagawa Hirosada (歌川広貞).
Subject: The kabuki actor Kataoka Gado (片岡我童) as Yasuda Tomoharu (安田友春).
Number: 1 (left one from a diptych).
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵), kamigata-e (上方絵), ōkubi-e (大首絵)
Size: medium (chūban, 中判).
Publisher: Tsutakan (蔦勘).
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: UHS01003
Condition: general conditions and color are generally good, but there is some stain
on the surface and on the border. Two spot on the right black border and on the
white frame (right top and center left) are slightly damaged and have been fixed.
The print has not been backed nor trimmed.
This print belong to a diptych and it can be understood by the presence
of the Japanese character shita「下」in the lower left side.
It portraies the actor Kataoka Gado II 二代目片岡我童) as Yasuda Tomoharu, a character
from the Noh theatre drama Mochitsuki (望月).
Information about this version of the print are scarce. It actually doesn't show
anywhere the sign of the artist, but having another identical print Hirosada's sign
on the left side of the blue cartouche containing the character name it may be reasonable
to consider this one an edition released soon after the first one.
A black seal on the lower left corner (蔦勘, Tsutakan) should suggest us the
publisher name, different, however, from the one Hirosada used to work with, named
Kinkadō (金華堂).