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Sixth Month: (Actor Nakamura Tsuruzô I as) a Straw Snake for the Fuji Festival (Fuji no ja); Seventh Month: (Ôtani Tomoemon IV as) a Demon-faced Roof Tile at the Tanabata Festival (Onigawara Tanabata); Eighth Month: (Ichikawa Kuzô II as) Gibbon with Reflected Moon (Enkô no tsuki); Ninth Month: (Onoe Kikujirô II as) Chrysanthemum Butterfly (Kiku chô), from the series Clever Ideas in Gestures for the Twelve Months (Miburi jûni omoitsuki)

Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861), Publisher Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
about 1847–48 (Kôka 4–Kaei 1)