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Arashi Ryūzō as the money lender Ishibe no Kinkichi.
The chief color-tone of the costume is reddish orange, over which is printed a check pattern in red and greenish gray.
Like the preceding number this is one of the most frequently seen of Sharaku’s bust-portraits on dark mica grounds, but impressions vary only in the occasional, if not usual, omission of the blue tinting above the tonsure. The one in the Spaulding Collection is inscribed. There are six in America.
The subject is reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 271, from which Rumpf number 10 and Noguchi copy it. The impression reproduced by Kurth and in the Straus-Negbaur Sale Catalogue, appears again in Nakata.
Ōban. Dark mica ground. Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).
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