Original woodblock print - Hasegawa Sadanobu I (1809-1879) - "Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sanza's wife Kazuraki" - Japan - 1837 Left part of a diptych. From the play "Monogusa Taro", Naka Theatre. Signed "Hasegawa Sadanobu ga" Published by Shohonya Seishichi (Honsei), Osaka, in 1837 (Tenpo 8), 8th month. On a Japanese washi paper, in very good condition. Colors in very good condition. Original, without backing. A bit trimmed. Some vague brown spots. Bottom left and right: two small red stamps (partial), collectors seals? Deluxe edition, on a thicker peper and with metallic pigments. Face and hands printed with a white pigment. All the grey's are printed with 'silver'-pigments (hair-accessories, under-kimono's and the over-kimono). Size: 24.7x 34.8cm (oban). In collection of MFA Boston, under number 11.36453a-b. See: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/461127 Mentioned and listed in: -Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 103; -Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #38-14; -Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 3 (2001), #007. Will be sent under card-boards, well protected, and fully insured.