Author: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周).
Subject: the kabuki actor Kawaharasaki Kennosuke VII (七代目河原崎権之助) as Ogata Jiraya (尾形児雷也).
Play title: Hōraisan Soga no kaomise (ほうらいさんそがのかおみせ, 三国一山曾我鏡).
Number: middle one from a triptych.
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke (海老屋林之助).
Period: c. 1871.
Trimmed: yes
Backed: no
Code: TKC01002

Condition: good condition. Good colors and saturation. Any remarkable stain. No wrinkles nor creases.
No fixing.There is an halo on the character's face that has probably been polished with some mica. Light damage on the backfupper-left border.

Kawaharasaki Kennosuke VII as Ogata Jiraya from the Kabuki drama Hōraisan Soga no kaomise, which was performed for the first time at the Morita za (守田座) theatre of Tōkyō.

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*It is paired with ITEM TKC01001 and TKC01003