Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Sawamura Tosshō I (沢村訥升) as Matsuwakamaru (松若丸) on the right, Bandō Mitsugorō IV (坂東三津五郎) as Sōta (惣太) in the center, and Iwai Hanshirō VI (岩井半四郎) as the nun Seigen (Seigen-ni - 清玄尼) on the left from the play Hana butai yoshiya otoko [花舞台丹前侠客]
03/1835
30.375 in x 14.875 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Publisher: Moritaya Hanzō
(Marks 352 - seal 04-010)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waseda University - left panel
Waseda University - center panel
Waseda University - right panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - right panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - center panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - left panel The copy of this triptych in the Lyon Collection is fresher in its colors, more. complete and more accurately printed than the existing copy in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which has also been trimmed in several places.
Moritaya Hanzō (森田屋半蔵) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Sawamura Tosshō I (初代沢村訥升 or 澤村訥升: from 11/1831 to 6/1844) (actor)
Bandō Mitsugorō IV (四代目坂東三津五郎: from 3/1832 to 10/1850) (actor)
Iwai Hanshirō VI (六代目岩井半四郎) (actor)