three separate sheets; each sheet has portrait in a cartouche; diagonal bands of bright patterning in background, including black and white, and purple and white oval swirls, green and white U-shape blocky design, pink and red, and blue and white stars; leftmost portrait in a scalloped cartouche of a scowling man with hair in two topknots, with a brown element above his head, wearing yellow and white armor, with arrows stuck in it, with blood in his shoulders and forehead; center portrait in a circle of a man wearing a white headband with yellow design on forehead, wearing a predominately red, purple and blue garment with multiple patterns; rightmost portrait in purple flower-shaped cartouche of a woman wearing a white and red garment

Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Suke no Tsubone (R), Sawamura Tosshō II as Minamoto Yoshitsune (C), and Ōtani Tomoemon V as Shinchūnagon Taira Tomomori, 1867, 7th lunar month

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Related to the play Ichimori kujira no ōyose 一守九字成大漁, performed at the Morita Theater in the 7th month of 1867.

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Title
Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Suke no Tsubone (R), Sawamura Tosshō II as Minamoto Yoshitsune (C), and Ōtani Tomoemon V as Shinchūnagon Taira Tomomori
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.79a-c
Catalogue Raisonne
Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 301.
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three separate sheets; each sheet has portrait in a cartouche; diagonal bands of bright patterning in background, including black and white, and purple and white oval swirls, green and white U-shape blocky design, pink and red, and blue and white stars; leftmost portrait in a scalloped cartouche of a scowling man with hair in two topknots, with a brown element above his head, wearing yellow and white armor, with arrows stuck in it, with blood in his shoulders and forehead; center portrait in a circle of a man wearing a white headband with yellow design on forehead, wearing a predominately red, purple and blue garment with multiple patterns; rightmost portrait in purple flower-shaped cartouche of a woman wearing a white and red garment