Figure 1

Impressions of (a) 15.07 h, print A, “Portrait of kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizô V as Hamamatsu in the play Kezori Kuemon” from the series “The Fifty-Three stations of the Tokaido” by Utagawa Kunisada, 2nd month of 1852, 35.2 × 23.8 cm, Collection of Henry D. Smith II; image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; (b) JP3683a,b, print B, “Parody of the Third Princess and Kashiwagi—“Chapter 50: A Hut in the Eastern Provinces” by Utagawa Kunisada, 2nd month of 1852, each 36.2 × 24.8 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985; (c) JP2614, Print C, “The Salt Maidens Murusame and Matsukaze” by Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1786, 38.4 × 25.7 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936.