Actor with a goose in his hand, Actor Ichikawa Danj?r? (1791-1859) in the role of Konoshita T?kichi stands in front of a gate with an umbrella and an goose in her hand pierced with an arrow. This print is the left-hand page of a diptych that forms part of a pyramid-shaped triptych, the right-hand leaf and the leaf diagonally above the current leaf are missing. With one poem on the pillar: 'Praised as the' thousand gourds 'of Naritaya, another successful season awaits this first-class actor' Naritaya was one of the names Ichikawa Danj?r? used when writing poems, water birds : goose, Kunisada (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), Japan, 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 214 mm ⊙ w 188 mm.