The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772 by Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772, depicting a kabuki actor in elaborate costume holding a child, standing before a green wooden gate

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