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Actors Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi Saemon (R), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibô Benkei (C), and Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (L)


「富樫左ヱ門」四代目市川小団次 「武蔵坊弁慶」八代目市川団十郎 「源義経」初代坂東竹三郎
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.9 x 73.5 cm (14 1/8 x 28 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3216.18-20
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Peternolli & Guidi, Kunisada (Bologna, 2017), #39
DescriptionTriptych: 17.3216.18 (center), 17.3216.19 (right), 17.3216.20 (left)

Play (shosa): Kanjinchô
Play (main feature): Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki
Theater: Kawarazaki
勧進帳(かんじんちょう) 長唄
伊達競阿国劇場(だてくらべおくにかぶき)
河原崎
1849、嘉永02、03・07
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
一陽斎豊国画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、吉村
彫師:なし
InscriptionsPoems
「此木戸の掟をゆるす桜かな 米升」
「花の空それつら/\おもん見れは 夜雨庵<八代目三升>」
「こたひ武蔵坊のすゝめによりて しらぬ山ふむも虎の尾さくらかな 橘子<竹☆>」