Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 11/15/1797 – 03/05/1861)
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ōtaka Tonomo (大高主殿) and Nakamura Tsuruzō I as the fisherman Ganzō (漁師贋蔵) from the play Takagi Oriemon Budō Jitsuroku [高木織右武実録]
08/1848
9.75 in x 14 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Artisit's seal: kiri
Publisher: Tōseidō
(Marks U345 - 12-043)
Censor seals: Yoshimura and Muramatsu
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - a variant printing by the same publisher - dated 8/1848 There is something terribly odd about this print: there appears to be an extra appendage in it... a leg, but whose leg? We don't know.
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Nakamura Utaemon IV (四代目中村歌右衛門: 1/1836-2/1852) (actor)
Nakamura Tsuruzō I (初代中村鶴蔵: 11/1818 to 8/1865) (actor)
Tōseidō (東盛堂) (publisher)