Artist: Utagawa Kunisada, a.k.a. Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786 – 1865) [歌川 国貞].

Publisher: Unidentified, Marks 01-033|U335a To-Chū [ト忠]

Date-aratame seal: Bunka 14 (1817).

Signed: Kunisada ga [国貞画].

Media: Fan print (uchiwa-e), 230 x 270 mm.

Kabuki play Chūkō shōbu-gatana [忠孝菖蒲刀] performed at the Nakamura Theater in Tokyo (Edo) in 5/1817.

Actor Seki Sanjūrō II [関三十郎], a.k.a. Seki Utasuke I; Nakamura Utasuke; Arashi Sôtarô; Meijin Seki; Sekisan (Japanese, 1786 – 1839) as Nakano Tōbei [中野藤兵衛] – top.

Actor Bandō Mitsugorō III [坂東三津五郎], a.k.a. Bandô Minosuke I, Morita Kanjirô II, Bandô Mitahachi I, Bandô Minosuke I, Bandô Mitahachi (Japanese, 1775 – 1831) I  as Miki Jūzaemon [三木十左衛門] – left.

Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V [松本幸四郎], a.k.a. Ichikawa Komazô III; Ichikawa Sumizô I (Japanese, 1764 – 1838) as Akabori Mizuemon [あかぼり水右衛門] – right.

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Arashi Kichisaburō III as Akabori Mizuemon (R) and Onoe Tamizō II as Nakano Tōbei (L) in Kameyama Monogatari 赤堀瑞枝門 嵐吉三郎 中村芝翫 尾上多見蔵 亀山物語 / National Museum of Asian Art – Smithsonian