Author: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周).
Subject: the kabuki actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV (四代目市村家橘) as Subashiri Okuma (洲走お熊).
Play title: Reflection of good and evil reputation of a virgin (musume hyōban zenaku kagami, 処女評判善悪鏡).
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵), butai sugata (舞台姿).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Iseki (伊勢喜).
Period: c. 1865.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: TKC01008

Condition: good condition. Good color and saturation with no fading. Any remarkable stain and no crease nor wrinkles. No trimming. The print has not been backed. Few tiny holes have been fixed along the left side.

The kabuki actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV playing the female role of Subashiri Okuma, as Onnagata.
She appears in the kabuki drama Musume Hyōban Zenaku Kagami as one of the Shiranami Gonin Onna (白波五人女), or five women of the five waves (female version of the Shiranami Gonin Otoko, or five men of the five waves), a group of female thieves.
The play was written by Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥) and performed at the or the first time in August 1865 at the Ichimura Za (市村座) of Edo.

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