Author: Utagawa Kunisada III (三代目歌川国貞).
Title: Kabukiza gogatsu kyōgen (歌舞伎座五月狂言).
Subject: the kabuki actor Ichikawa Yaozō VII (七代目市川八百藏).
Genre: yakusha-e (役者絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判) 37cm x 25,6 cm ( 14,56 x 10,07 inches).
Publisher: Fukuda hatsujirō (福田初次郎).
Period: c. 1900.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: UKSIII03003

Condition: good colour. Minor stain, any remarkable crease nor fixing. The integrity of the design is not compromised. It has not been trimmed nor backed.

The subject of this print is the kabuki actor Ichikawa Yaozō. It belongs to a triptych of which it occupies the first place from the left.
It is inspired from a story of two men arguing on a woman named Benten Oteru (弁天 お照) held on May 1900 at he kabuki theater of Tōkyō.

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