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This print depicts the interior of a theater. Several actors move about the set at the top of the print. Individuals in the audience are minutely detailed. Near the left of the stage, a pair of half-naked men brawl while an actor chides them from above. Near the bottom of the image, several in the audience smoke long pipes. A man holds the hand of a child on a raised platform near the bottom left of the print.<br /><br />
Inscriptions: Nishimura and unidentified others (​Publisher's seal); Torii Kiyotsune ga (Artist's signature)<br />
 
Torii Kiyotsune
Perspective Print of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater Featuring the Amakawa Scene of The Treasury of Loyal Retainers
1755 – 1765
Gift of Sharlynn and Andrew Circo, in memory of Sotokichi Katsuizumi
2011/2.200
A man dressed as a woman stands under a blue and white fringed drape that reads <em>Kamei no mizu</em>. The man is wearing a orange, blue, and black multi-layered robe with floral bursts on the outer layer. He carries a sword in his belt and holds an open fan in his right hand. His hair is tied back with a white ribbon. He is standing in front of a fence or lattice.<br /><br />
Inscriptions: Ichikawa Benzō, Shintokumaru; Mikawachō [?] chō me, Enami (Publisher's seal); Torii Kiyotsune (Signature)
Torii Kiyotsune
Ichikawa Benzō I as Shintokumaru
1757 – 1769
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.164
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