Title : Ichikawa Monnosuke as Oteru, Ichikawa Danjuro as Chokichi aratame Yojibei, Ichikawa Omezo as Nuregami Chogoro 市川門之助の娘おてる、市川団十郎の長吉改与次兵衛、市川男女蔵のぬれ髪長五郎

Artist : Utagawa Kunisada

Date : 1822

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (left to right) Ichikawa Omezo I as the sumo wrestler Nuregami Chogoro, Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Yojibei, formerly Chokichi, (‘Chokichi aratame Yojibei’), holding a ‘kiseru’ tobacco pipe and seated by a ‘hibachi’ brazier, and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Oteru, daughter of the Yawataya, (‘Yawataya musume Oteru’), in the play ‘Gohiiki Soga uru shogatsu’ (御摂曽我閏正月) by Segawa Joko II; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 1st month of 1822 (Bunsei 5).

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