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.
Similar images:
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