Artist: Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞], a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代 歌川 豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Signed: Kunisada egaku (國貞ゑかく)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō [伊場屋仙三郎] (Japanese, fl. c. 1815 – 1869), san (三) in a circle plus red seal below the date-aratame seal
Date-Aratame Seal: 1831 – Year of the Hare (卯), Tenpo 2 plus aratame (改)
Media: Aiban yoko-e uchiwa-e (団扇絵), color woodblock print, 229 x 266 mm
Play: Masago shiranami (真砂白浪), performed at the Nakamura-za, Edo, in 3/1831
Actor: Iwai Kumesaburō II (岩井粂三郎) (1799 – 1836), also known as Iwai Hanshirō VI [岩井半四郎] (Japanese, 1799 – 1836), Iwai Hisajirō I, Baiga (poetry name), Shūka (poetry name).
Role: Oritsu (おりつ)
A half-length, three-quarter view, head turned slightly to the left portrait of kabuki actor Iwai Kumesaburō II in the female role of Oritsu in the play titled Masago shiranami. The play belongs to the shiranami mono genre, typically centred on thieves and dramatic entanglements.
Oritsu is wearing a blue outer robe with yellow floral motifs over a red underrobe, a purple collar adorned with an asanoha (麻の葉) pattern, and a white scarf on the shoulders. A padded towel is wrapped around the head. She is looking with astonishment inside an object she holds in her left hand, probably a straw hat.
