CATALOGUE 110. Amusements of Actors on the Third Floor, by Utagawa Toyokuni (Smith 1988:176).

Six people ride in a yakata-bune. The characters on both the placard and the stempost are both pronounced “Ichikawa.” These would usually refer to the restaurant or owner of the boat, but in this case refers to the family of actors depicted in the print. The stempost has additional decorative elements and is notched at the tip. The sheer strake overlaps the stempost. An anchor is visible in the bow.


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