A colour woodblock print of the kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon as Ume no Yoshibei from the play ‘Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi’, 1848. Originally part of a triptych. The character Ume no Yoshibei, was based on a real person, Umeshibu no Kichibei, who murdered a shop assistant named Chokichi in 1689 in Osaka to steal his money.