LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD.

106Scene from a drama. Yamashita Kinsaku as a woman holding a roll of paper, conversing with Ichikawa Komazo̅, who holds a letter in his hand.

KATSUKAWA SHUNKOÌ

Pupil of Shunsho and generally regarded as his most talented follower. His career as a print-designer was cut short by a stroke of paralysis when he was in his forty-fifth or forty-sixth year, but he lived for about [pg 43] forty years thereafter as a recluse at Zenfukuji temple, Azabu, Yedo, where he died in 1827.

LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM.

107Iwai Hanshiro in a female rôle.
108The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke.
109Nakamura Tomijūro̅ as a tsuzumi player.

LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD.

110Arashi Tatsuzo as a woman flower-vendor.

KATSUKAWA SHUNYEI

Pupil of Shunsho̅ and an artist of ability. At first, for a short time, he called himself Shunjo̅. He was born in 1767, and died on December 13, 1819.