Author: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) here as Toyokuni III (三代目豊国).
Subject: Onoe Baikō IV (四代目 尾上 梅幸) as Yokogushi Otomi (横櫛お富、横ぐしおとみ).
Series: Yoha nasake ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛).
Number: (C) first from the right side of a tryptich.
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵), edo-e (江戸絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Izutsuya (井筒屋).
Period: c. 1853.
Trimmed: no
Backed: yes
Code: UKSI01005
Condition: color is good. Any remarkable stain nor wrinkle. Multiple moth-eaten holes on the
surface.
The print has been backed.
The kabuki actor Onoe Baikō IV playing as onnagata Yokogushi Otomi, a female characters from the
kabuki drama
Yoha nasake ukina no Yokogushi.
The play, popularly known as Otomi Yosaburō (お富与三郎), was composed by Segawa Jokō III ( 三代目 瀬川 如皐)
and
performed for the first time on May 1853, at the Nakamura za (中村座) theater in Edo.