Title : Ichikawa Danjuro as Oda Harunaga, Mimasu Gennosuke as Mori no Ranmaru, Matsumoto Koshiro as Takechi Mitsuhide 市川団十郎の小田春永、三桝源之助の森の蘭丸、松本幸四郎の武智光秀

Artist : Utagawa Kunisada

Date : 1825

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (right to left) Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Oda Harunaga, Mimasu Gennosuke I as his retainer Mori no Ranmaru and Matsumoto Koshiro V as Takechi Mitsuhide, seated before the horse basin (‘badarai’) containing a horse’s bit that was given to him as a receptacle out of which to drink saké, in the play ‘Toki mo kikyo Oda no hosaku’, (時模様小田豊兆) (alternate title ‘Toki mo kikyo Oda no dekiaki’); performed at the Nakamura-za in the 9th month of 1825 (Bunsei 8).

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