Related links: Waseda University; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - b & w; National Gallery of Australia; University of Michigan;
From an edition of 150.
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"Shunsen illustrates Sawamura Gennosuke IV, a senior actor of the 1920s, portraying the climactic moment when Nikki Danjō emerges from beneath the stage. The sorcerer holds a scroll in his mouth, and his forehead bears a fresh gash, to convey his transformation from the rat. The grey kimono mimics the color of the rat."
Quoted from: Stars of the Tokyo Stage by Lucie Folan, et al., p. 86.
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Illustrated:
1. In color in Stars of the Tokyo Stage by Lucie Folan, et al., on pages 18 and 87.
2. In a small black and white reproduction in Modern Japanese Prints by Dorothy Blair, #161.
3. In color reproduction in Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, p. 201.
4. In color in 名取春仙, 1991, p. 46.
There is another copy in the Toledo Museum of Art.