The kabuki actor Nakamura Fukusuke V (五代目中村福助) playing the role of Geisha Kosome (芸者小染).

This print comes from a triptych inspired by the drama "Three Ansei sake cup" (Ansei mitsugumi sakazuki) held in Tōkyō for the first time in 1893 at the Kabuki theater and portrays the kabuki actor Nakamura Fukusuke who, as onnagata, is playng the role of the Geisha Kotome. Kotome was a Gesiha lived during the bakumatsu, a timeline extending from 1853 to 1867, the last 14 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It is told that on the 6th year of the Ansei era (1859) she was sailing from Uraga, nearby Yokohama in the Kanagawa prefecture towards the Kamigata area (which nowadays corresponds to the area spreading from Kyōtō to Ōsaka) for visiting its beauties, but she was caught in storm. After having drifted for 60 long days she found hereself in the Hawai. Haunted by a strong feeling of nostalgia but with no chance of returning home she had no choice but keep living there.
One day she met a Christian missionary named Jansee that took her to America where she converted devoting herself to a Chirstian life.
Voices and news about her life got lost after 1877.