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Bust Portraits III (Design 2) Nakamura Utaemon VI as the demon of Mt. Togakushi in <Momijigari>

No.
36
Title
Nakamura Utaemon VI as the demon of Mt. Togakushi in <Momijigari>
Series title
Bust Portraits III (Design 2)
Edition
27
Date
1982/5
Seal
<Out of 27 impressions> (Seal 18); <Seal of Kokei> (Seal 17)
Dimensions
30.5×22.8cm
Paper
Hodomura paper (made in Tochigi Prefecture)
Woodblock
Magnolia Obovata
Subject
<Momijigari> performed at the Kabuki-za, 1982/5
Sales location
Kabuki-za; 1982/5/15 to 28
Description
Written by hand on top of the lower seal are the words <Taisha Kuma Owari>, (<Printing of the red ochre make-up completed>). Only number 12 of the edition was sold with this make-up incomplete. Number 3 was destroyed.