Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô II as Shunkan and Azuma Tôzô II as Oyasu in “Outing to Pick Pine Seedlings on the Rat-Day of theNew Year” (“Hime komatsu neno hi asobi”)

Two kabuki actors in a hosoban composition: a wild-haired male figure at right, standing and grasping the wrist of a kneeling female figure at left, his sword hilt raised prominently at the top edge of the sheet. He wears a grey robe patterned with orange floral roundels over an orange under-robe; she wears a dark robe with an orange-and-white patterned collar and holds a round white object at her knee. The palette is muted — greys, soft orange, and black against an aged cream ground — with the artist's signature and seal in the upper left. Katsukawa Shunshō, 1763, color woodblock print (hosoban).