Author: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原 国周).
Play title: Orihime shusu enishi no iroito (織姫繻子緑色糸).
Print title: Matsubara building banquet place (matsubara rō enkai no jō, 松源楼宴会之場).
Subject: Ichikawa Yonezō (市川米蔵), Okinu the weaver (hataorime okinu, 機織女おきぬ).
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵), Meiji ki sōen buyō (明治期創演舞踊).
Size: large (ōban, 大判) 37cm x 24,9cm (14,56 x 9,8 inches).
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (秋山武右衛門).
Period: c. 1894.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: TKC01009
Condition: very good condition. Good color and saturation with no fading. Any remarkable stain and
no crease nor wrinkles. No trimming nor fixed. The print has not been backed.
Central print from a triptych by Toyohara Kunichira.
In this works the author sign appears as
"responding to a demand Toyohara Kunichika" (ōjun Toyohara Kunichika, 応需豊原国周), perhaps showing the great amount
of work the artist was commissioned by the time.
The play in queston is Orihime shusu enishi no iroito, performed
for the first time in Tōkyō, at the Meiji Theater (Meiji za, 明治座) in 1894.