female figure in red robe with white flowers on ground before male figure in black robes with white designs; both figures at the foot of stone stairs and stone wall

Prologue, 1860, 4th lunar month

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Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Kō no Moronao (R) and Onoe Kikugorō IV as Kaoyo-gozen (L). Related to the play Kanadehon Chūshingura 仮名手本忠臣蔵, performed at the Nakamura Theater in the 4th month of 1860.

Details
Title
Prologue
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.10
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 21; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 305.
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female figure in red robe with white flowers on ground before male figure in black robes with white designs; both figures at the foot of stone stairs and stone wall