Ichikawa Dannosuke III as the Female Fan Seller Osawa with the Dance Mask of a Fox

The impressive figural composition counterbalances the narrow smooth line of the actor of female roles and the sharp-angled mass of the street seller’s box. The inscription in the bottom right corner speaks about the nature of the character – “a great, great theatre success of the dance-drama shosagoto with a mask at the back of the head” (Ushiromen no shosa ōatari ōatari). The sheet bears the censor’s stamp kiwame and the seal of the publisher Nishimura Yohachi. (See Helena Honcoopová, Kunisada, Praha 2005, p. 124)