I found this one at an antique shop in Cambridge, MA, purchased from a dealer who often has interesting works on paper at very good prices. I come across a fair number of Japanese Edo era woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), which I often admire but am not typically compelled to purchase--but this one stopped me in my tracks. Photos do no justice to how striking and lush feeling it is in person, but between the colors--soft but bold green and yellow and blue and black black, and the faces, and the drape of the text as it arches along the top edge of the man's shoulder--just so elegant and expressive. With a little searching I turned up that the woodblock is the work of Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1797-1861), one of the great masters of ukiyo-e woodblocks, perhaps best known for his samurai and battle scenes, but also kabuki scenes, landscapes, and comic designs. The subject here is kabuki performer Nakamura Shikan II and his son Nakamura Komataro, greeting the audience at a farewell-to-Edo performance, 1833. Gorgeous.
14 3/8" x 9 7/8", mounted as found to a gold flecked Japanese rice paper, visible narrowly around the perimeter. Beautiful antique condition, 1833. I've included another example of Kuniyoshi's work at the end of photos--that one from a portfolio of Samurai prints sold through Sotheby's.