Comparing it to other listings and museum prints viewable online. – Series: Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi) Station: Fujieda Actor/Role: Bando Mitsugoro III as Kumagai Jiro Naozane (famous warrior from Heike Monogatari) Date: 1852 (confirmed by Edo-period censor seals “Hama” and “Magome”) Format: Oban tate-e approx. 14 × 9½ in Signature: “Toyokuni ga” (Kunisada’s signature as Toyokuni III) This dramatic yakusha-e (actor print) shows Bando Mitsugoro III in the role of the warrior Kumagai Naozane, with a small landscape view of Fujieda station above. Part of Kunisada’s celebrated Tokaido actor series, sometimes called the “Two Brushes Tokaido, ” produced in collaboration with Hiroshige’s landscape style. Condition: Moderate toning and foxing; light mat burn at edges. Colors moderately faded but stable. Margins appear trimmed under frame. No major tears or holes visible. Provenance / References: Identical impressions held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Catalogued as: Fujieda – Bando Mitsugoro III as Kumagai Jiro Naozane, 1852.