Utagawa Yoshiiku: Jōruri shosagoto (Shamisen player at a Kabuki performance), 1864. Colour woodcut on Japan paper, 35.5 x 24.6 cm (sheet). Right part of a diptych. Signature: Yoshiiku hitsu (芳幾筆). Date: 6/1864. Publisher: Iseya Tōkichi. Title: 浄るり所作事 (‘jōruri shosagoto’). It depicts the actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Benikan (べにかん) in the play ‘gogatsu no bori beni no akebono’. (Many thanks for the detailed information to Horst Gräbner from kunisada.de)
