Artist: Shunshō Katsukawa ( 1726 - 1792 )
Date: ca. 1768
Title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Mikawaya Giheiji (right), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Danshichi Kurobei (left), in "Nagamachi-ura" (Murder in the Back Street off Nagamachi), Act Seven of the Joruri "Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami" (Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival)
Format: Chuban; Woodblock print
Dimensions: 9 5/8" x 7 7/16" (24.4 x 18.9 cm)
Illustrated: Page 182, # 172 in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces by Kiyoshi Shibui, Juzo Suzuki, etc.; The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1969. 
The Art Institute of Chicago # 1925.2387, trimmed into the signature.
 
Condition: Slightly faded, printed as if figures are three-dimensional on deluxe paper.