Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danzō V as Tamaya Shinbei in the play "Sato-gayoi Tosei Sugata" (The Latest Fashion, to Frequent a House of Ill-Fame)

This circa 1830 yakusha-e by Utagawa Yoshikuni, held by the Art Institute of Chicago (accession 100630, in the collection records under the variant signature Toyokawa Yoshikuni), depicts the Edo-trained actor Ichikawa Danzō V in the role of Tamaya Shinbei in the kabuki play Sato-gayoi Tosei Sugata (The Latest Fashion, to Frequent a House of Ill-Fame). Danzō V was a touring Edo actor whose appearances on the Osaka stage made him a periodic subject for Osaka kamigata-e designers including both his contemporary Shunkōsai Hokushū and Yoshikuni himself. The role of Tamaya Shinbei belongs to the domestic-drama (sewamono) repertoire of pleasure-quarter visitors and rakes that Osaka kabuki turned into one of its most distinctive specialties, blending the moral entanglements of the chōnin (townsman) class with the visual codes of the licensed quarters. His composition gives the actor a half-length pose with the careful Osaka kamigata-e attention to facial study, restrained costume rendering, and prominent inscription of role and play title. The print measures approximately 25.3 by 36.5 centimeters as a color woodblock print in the horizontal oban format, in which the standing or seated actor occupied much of the visual field against a minimal background. The Art Institute's record under the Toyokawa Yoshikuni signature reflects the surname-variant convention typical of the artist's identity layering, while modern scholarly indices unite his Toyokawa, Jukōdō, and Ippyōtei signatures under the same Osaka kamigata-e identity. The play title Sato-gayoi Tosei Sugata draws on the recurring theme of pleasure-quarter visiting that defines a substantial portion of the Osaka sewamono tradition.