Artist: Utagawa Kunisada

Title: Onoe Kikugoro as Tomozuna no Kame, Ichikawa Monnosuke as Geisha Oben, Seki Sanjuro as Haenuki no Iwa 尾上菊五郎の友綱の亀、市川門之助の芸者お弁、関三十郎のはへぬきの岩

Date: 1820

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Source: British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (from left) Seki Sanjuro II as Haenuki no Iwa, Ichikawa Monnosuke III as the geisha Oben, caught in a fisherman’s net, and Onoe Kikugoro III as the boatman Tomozuna no Kame, rowing along the Sumida River at night, in the play ‘Ise heishi ume no mitegura’ (伊勢平氏額英幣) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV; performed at the Kawarasaki-za in the 11th month of 1820 (Bunsei 3).

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