Artist: Gosotei Hirosada
Subject: Ogawa Hachizo I ( Onoe Kikugoro III ) as Tenjiku Tokubei
Play: Sangoku daiichi nochi no kusemono at the Kado Theatre in Osaka
Series: 
Date: 1848, 8th month ( Koka 5 )
Signed: Hirosada
No publisher seal
No artist seal
Format: chuban
Size: 10 1/4'' x 7 1/2''
Condition: Fine color, impression, and condition.
 
Comment: The actor's beige shirt has been burnished with a coarse piece of silk inserted between the baren and the blank paper, leaving a textured surface in the paper simulating coarse silk ( nunomezuri - fabric printing ), and has then tarnished over the years. Tiny wormhole upper left margin. These deluxe printing techniques indicate that this print is a first edition. During the play, Tokubei learns the secrets of toad sorcery, as indicated by his hand gesture.
 
Illustrated: Philadelphia Art Museum # 2008-62-243 (81)