• Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as the greengrocer (<i>yaoya</i>) Chōkichi (八百屋長吉) and Asao Kunigorō III (浅尾国五郎) as the hedonistic priest (<i>dōraku ōshō</i>) Rikyō (道楽和尚里橋) from the play <i>Omoto Kamematsu hiyoku no kanzashi</i> (おもと龜松中村笄: The lovers' comb: Omoto and Kamematsu)
Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as the greengrocer (<i>yaoya</i>) Chōkichi (八百屋長吉) and Asao Kunigorō III (浅尾国五郎) as the hedonistic priest (<i>dōraku ōshō</i>) Rikyō (道楽和尚里橋) from the play <i>Omoto Kamematsu hiyoku no kanzashi</i> (おもと龜松中村笄: The lovers' comb: Omoto and Kamematsu)
Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as the greengrocer (<i>yaoya</i>) Chōkichi (八百屋長吉) and Asao Kunigorō III (浅尾国五郎) as the hedonistic priest (<i>dōraku ōshō</i>) Rikyō (道楽和尚里橋) from the play <i>Omoto Kamematsu hiyoku no kanzashi</i> (おもと龜松中村笄: The lovers' comb: Omoto and Kamematsu)
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Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広) (artist )

Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as the greengrocer (yaoya) Chōkichi (八百屋長吉) and Asao Kunigorō III (浅尾国五郎) as the hedonistic priest (dōraku ōshō) Rikyō (道楽和尚里橋) from the play Omoto Kamematsu hiyoku no kanzashi (おもと龜松中村笄: The lovers' comb: Omoto and Kamematsu)

Print

07/1827
10.25 in x 14.875 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kunihiro ga (国広画)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei
(Marks 536- seal 26-155)
Carver: Hori Kōichi, suri Tokuhei
ホリ幸市、スリ篤平
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waseda University
Hankyu Culture Foundation This print commemorates a performance at the Kado Theater (中村笄) of a play that is unknown to us today.

Osaka Prints said of this image: "The two actors are engaged in a choreographed fight scene (tachimarari: 立回り) before a shop kiosk that appears to read Kishiya (嬉し野). The fallen lantern is inscribed with the character tô ("knife" or "cut": 刀). Rikyô wears a headband (hachimaki: 鉢巻) tied around his head and knotted in the front, a style known as chônin no mukô hachimaki (townsman's front-headband). Chômatsu, whose upper robe has fallen to his waist, wears a hand towel (tenugui: 手ぬぐい) around his neck. He raises his short sword (wakizashi: 脇差), threatening to slash Rikyô."

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Listed and illustrated in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 3, Osaka, 2001, no 554.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Tenmaya Kihei (天満屋喜兵衛) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Nakamura Utaemon III (三代目中村歌右衛門) (actor)
Asao Kunigorō III (三代目浅尾国五郎) (actor)