Title : Gojusantsugi Okazaki 五十三駅 岡崎 (The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Okazaki) / Tamashima Ittou; Furuneko no kai; Inabanosuke 玉嶋逸当、古猫の怪、因幡之助

Artist : Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Date : 1847

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban yoko-e. Kabuki actors as cats performing the Okazaki scene in the play 'Onoe Kikugoro ichidai banashi' (尾上梅寿一代噺) performed at the Ichimura theater in the seventh month of Koka 4 (1847), with Ichimura Uzaemon XII (left) as Inaba no Suke, Onoe Kikugoro III as the ghost of the Old Cat, and Sawamura Sojuro V as Tamashima Itto.

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