Japanese Print "Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden)" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese Print "Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden)" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 歌川国芳 (Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳))

Artist:Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Title:Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden)

Date:1840 (circa)

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Source:British Museum
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Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV (left) as Inukai Kempachi on the roof of the Horyukaku temple pulling a chain and Onoe Kikugoro III (right) as Inuzuka Shino having caught the chain's other end, struggling with three other opponents. Poems inscribed above.

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