In Actor Arashi Rikan II as Osome, how is the Publisher discussed?
The print displays the publisher's mark associated with Tenki. The seal is a stylized version of the character 天 (ten) contained within a circle. This appears directly above the full characters for Tenki (天喜). Operating under the firm name Kinkadō (金華堂), Tenki, or Tenmaya Kihei (天満屋喜兵衛) as it was also known, was active from 1816 into the 1850s. The Tenki seal version appearing in this print was used from 1826 to 1838.