Title : Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden)

Artist : Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Date : 1840 (circa)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV (left) as Inukai Kempachi on the roof of the Horyukaku temple pulling a chain and Onoe Kikugoro III (right) as Inuzuka Shino having caught the chain's other end, struggling with three other opponents. Poems inscribed above.

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