Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 11/15/1797 – 03/05/1861)
Seki Sanjūrō III (right) as Yokoyama Daizō (横山大蔵) and Nakamura Utaemon IV (left) as Otaka Tonomo (大高主殿)
08/1848
9.7 in x 14.1 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print
Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Artist's seal: kiri
Publisher: Ōtaya Takichi (Marks 423 - seal 01-119)
Censor seals: Yoshimura and Muramatsu
Waseda University
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Lyon Collection - a Kuniyoshi print focusing on the Daruma scroll only
Lyon Collection - a Kuniyoshi diptych on the same theme This print commemorates a performance of the play Takagi Oriemon budōjitsuroku (高木織右武実録) at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month of 1848.
Notice the Daruma scroll lying on the ground behind these figures. (See related links to two other prints in the Lyon Collection.)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Seki Sanjūrō III (三代目関三十郎: 4/1840 to 12/1870) (actor)
Nakamura Utaemon IV (四代目中村歌右衛門: 1/1836-2/1852) (actor)
Ōtaya Takichi (太田屋多吉) (publisher)
Daruma or Bodhidharma (達磨) (role)