Comment - Kabuki actor Nakamura Fukusuke (中村福助, upper left cassette) is acting in the role of a man with dragon tatoo on his shoulder and upper arm. He is holding a kite line in his hand, flying a kite ferry (saru, 猿). A flowering plum tree is filling the red background hinting to the spring festival, where even 'grown-up boys' like to fly kites. The title of the Kabuki play is written in the squared white cassette upper left, next to the name cassette of actor Nakamura Fukusuke.


Artist - see Biography


Signature - Hasegawa Sadonobu ga ("長谷川 貞信画", "drawn by Hasegawa Sadonobu") (center right side)


Publisher - Asai Kanjiro  (浅井金次郎) lower left rim white cassette


Image Size -18.0 x 25.0 cm   (7 1/8"  x 9 27/32")


Condition - single panel; nishiki-e (coloured woodblock); Vertical ôban (ôban tate-e);