The print belongs to the permanent collection of the Prince Takamado Gallery of Japanese Art in the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.

He worked in various media including single-sheet prints, book illustration, theater billboards and programs, and painting.

[5] This notwithstanding, Shigeharu was, if not the only professional ukiyo-e artist working in Osaka in the late nineteenth-century, one of the very few on the amateur-dominated art scene.

[14] It is one of several dramas recounting the tragic true story of two star-crossed lovers who committed double-suicide in 1710, one the daughter of a merchant, the other, her father's apprentice.

[15] Osome was a popular subject for yakusha-e artists and often depicted wearing a kimono decorated with hemp flowers.

[16] Rikan II appeared in this role at Osaka's Kado theatre in the ninth lunar month of 1830,[17] and it is likely that this print was completed in celebration of this performance.

He reprised the role at the Kitagawa theatre in the eleventh lunar month of 1832, which was memorialized in a print by Shunbaisai Hokuei.