Untitled (scene from a Kabuki play) by Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century.

Color woodcut, left sheet of a kabuki diptych depicting Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as shogun Taro Yoshikado in the play “Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado”, performed at the Kawarazaki theater in 1848; published by Sumiyoshiya Magazine.

Gift of Eric Stewart