Signed: Kunichika hitsu (国周筆)
Artist's seal: toshidama
Publisher: Shimizuya Naojirō (Marks 468 - seal 01-081)
Related links: Waseda University ; Waseda University - right-hand panel; Waseda University - left-hand panel; National Museums of Scotland - another Kunichika print referring to this play; Lyon Collection - Toyokuni I print of Gengobei from ca. 1801;
While the hands of his dying victim grasp at his bloody robes, a ronin or masterless samurai raises the lantern with his gory hand. You can't see it in this print, but Gengobei's bloody right hand is holding a sword in the left-hand panel of the triptych from which this is the center panel.
This print commemorates a performance at the Nakamura Morita Theater in 9/1868.