The Actor Nakamura Riko I as the Courtesan Wakamatsu in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773 by Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1773, Japanese kabuki actor in elaborate layered robes standing in profile with ornamental hairpins

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