Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Farewell comedy (nagori kyogen), depicting nakamura utaemon iv (shikan) (a poem above his head) in an ornate and multi-coloured robe and a high and pointed hat performing the sambaso, a comic dance, in the play 'matakuru haru suzuna no tanemaki' (再春菘種蒔) performed at the nakamura theatre, edo from the 9th month of 1833 (tempo 4). Date: 1833. Dimensions: Height: 36.70 centimetres Width: 25 centimetres. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Nakamura Utaemon IV. Collection: British Museum. Nakamura Shikan as Sanbaso 中村芝翫の三番叟 (BM 2008,3037.21337)
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