Focus on Actor Arashi Rikan II as Osome and explore the Format.
The image is a vertical tate-e (立絵) ichimai-e (一枚絵) single-sheet print. As the print depicts one half of the romantic duo in a famous love story, and as the signatures, seals and inscriptions are all located on the extreme right of the print, it may have been the right-side half of a diptych.