• Matsumoto Kōshirō II as Hata no Daizen Taketora and Ichikawa Yaozō II as Kujaku no Saburō on the right, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishirō and Nakamura Shōchō as Ōtomo no Kuronushi (or Ki no Tsurayuki) on the left in the play <i>Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji</i> ['Flowers of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters' - 倭花小野五文字]
Matsumoto Kōshirō II as Hata no Daizen Taketora and Ichikawa Yaozō II as Kujaku no Saburō on the right, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishirō and Nakamura Shōchō as Ōtomo no Kuronushi (or Ki no Tsurayuki) on the left in the play <i>Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji</i> ['Flowers of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters' - 倭花小野五文字]
Matsumoto Kōshirō II as Hata no Daizen Taketora and Ichikawa Yaozō II as Kujaku no Saburō on the right, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishirō and Nakamura Shōchō as Ōtomo no Kuronushi (or Ki no Tsurayuki) on the left in the play <i>Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji</i> ['Flowers of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters' - 倭花小野五文字]
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Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章) (artist 1726 – 1792)

Matsumoto Kōshirō II as Hata no Daizen Taketora and Ichikawa Yaozō II as Kujaku no Saburō on the right, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishirō and Nakamura Shōchō as Ōtomo no Kuronushi (or Ki no Tsurayuki) on the left in the play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji ['Flowers of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters' - 倭花小野五文字]

Print

11/1771
11 in x 6.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Art Institute Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Based on the play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji (倭花小野五文字). These two sheets are from the book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (役者国の華: Prominent Actors of Japan).

Each of the actors can be identified by his crest or mon.

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Illustrated in black and white in The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School, p. 388, #168.

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1) Ichikawa Yaozō II as Kujaku Saburō
二代目市川八百蔵の孔雀三郎

2) Matsumoto Kōshirō II as Hata no Daizen Taketora
二代目松本幸四郎の秦の大膳武虎

3) Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishirō
二代目中島三甫右衛門の荒巻耳四郎

4) Nakamura Shōchō as Ōtomo no Kuronushi
中村少長の大伴の黒主
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
picture book (ehon - 絵本) (genre)
Matsumoto Kōshirō II (二代目松本幸四郎: from 1/1735 to 10/1754 and again 11/1770 to 10/1772) (actor)
Ichikawa Yaozō II (二代目市川八百蔵: from 11/1763 to 7/3/1777) (actor)
Nakajima Mihoemon II (二代目中島三甫右衛門: from 11/1762 to 12/17/1782) (actor)
Nakamura Shōchō (中村少長: from 11/1770 to 9/1773) (actor)