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  • Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
Shaving the Head with a Ladder (<i>Gohō hashigo-zuri</i> - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series <i>Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures</i> (<i>Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi</i> - 大津絵所作ノ内)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Shaving the Head with a Ladder (Gohō hashigo-zuri - ごほふはしごずり): Bandō Mitsugorō VI [六代目坂東三津五郎] as Daikoku (大こく) and Nakamura Fukusuke I [初代中村福助] as Fukurokuju (福禄寿) from the series Dance of the Ōtsu-e Figures (Ōtsu-e shosa no uchi - 大津絵所作ノ内)

Print

10/1857
9.375 in x 13.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Hayashiya Shōgorō
(Marks 106 -seal closest to 11-002)
Censor's seal: aratame & Snake 10
Date seal: 10/1857
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waseda University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 19th century Ōtsu-e painting of the same scene
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (via Ritsumeikan University)
University of California, San Francisco Library
British Museum - a related Utamaro print from ca. 1802-03 There are many ways to look at this print. One way it can be viewed as a visual joke with two famous actors in the roles of two of the Seven Propitious Gods. The humorous intent is unmistakable.

The other prints in this series have similar pairings of folk legends. These would have easily tickled the funny bones of Kunisada's contemporaries. For example, one shows a famous onnagata as the Wisteria Maiden watching another actor portrayed as a monkey clubbing a giant catfish. All composed of typical Ōtsue-e figures.

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The curatorial files from the museum in Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, give the title of this print as Ōtsu-e meisaku no uchi: Gehō hashigo zori (Daikoku shaving Fukurokuju's head)
Hayashiya Shōgorō (林屋庄五郎) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Bandō Mitsugorō VI (六代目坂東三津五郎: 5/1856 to 9/11/1873) (actor)
Nakamura Fukusuke I (初代中村福助: 3/1839 to 6/1860) (actor)