Signed: Kitagawa Toyohide ga (北川豊秀画)
Publisher: Honya Seishichi (Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
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This play was performed at the Kado Theater in Osaka in 9/1841. Unfortunately, nothing is known of this play.
"The animated composition relies in part on the strong diagonal established by the cresting waves, à la Hokusai, in opposition to the slanting metallic rain."
Barely a dozen designs are known by Toyohide, and impressions in good condition are rare. Formerly in the Okada Collection (featured in Kuroda Genji's 1929 "Kamigata-e Ichiran" Review of Kamigata Pictures).
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Illustrated in Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei, vol. 3, 2001, #216.