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The Ken Game of the Five Colors (五色けん - <i>Itsu iro ken</i>) from the play 'Pulling out spring weeds' [引抜て春の道草] - in the center panel is Bandō Hikosaburō V as the Master (旦那 - danna) and Bandō Mitsugorō VI as the craftsman's wife (Shigotoshi nyōbō); on the left are Otani Tomeomon as the craftsman (Shigotoshi - 仕事師) and Iwai Shijaku II as a Baby Minder (komori - 子守)
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Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周) (artist 1835 – 1900)

The Ken Game of the Five Colors (五色けん - Itsu iro ken) from the play 'Pulling out spring weeds' [引抜て春の道草] - in the center panel is Bandō Hikosaburō V as the Master (旦那 - danna) and Bandō Mitsugorō VI as the craftsman's wife (Shigotoshi nyōbō); on the left are Otani Tomeomon as the craftsman (Shigotoshi - 仕事師) and Iwai Shijaku II as a Baby Minder (komori - 子守)

Print

02/1867
28.5 in x 13.9 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kunichika hitsu (豊原国周筆)
Publisher: Kikuya Ichibei
Carver: Hori Ei
Waseda University - the whole triptych
Waseda University - right panel
Waseda University - center panel
Waseda University - left panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - the center and left panels Actors playing a ken game. This is from the play 'Pulling Out Spring Weeds' (Hikinukite haru no michikusa 引抜て春の道草) performed in 2/1867/ at the Morita Theater in Edo.

Right panel: Nakamura Nakazō III as Yomiuri and Sawamura Tosshō II as a chōnin;center panel: Bandō Hikosaburō V as the husband, Bandō Mitsugorō VI as the worker's wife Shigotoshi Nyōbō; left panel: Ōtani Tomoemon V as the worker Shigotoshi and Iwai Shijaku II as Komori
Kikuya Ichibei (publisher)
Nakamura Nakazō III (三代目中村仲蔵: from 9/1865 to December 1886) (actor)
Bandō Hikosaburō V (五代目坂東彦三郎: 3/1856 to 10/1877) (actor)
Bandō Mitsugorō VI (六代目坂東三津五郎: 5/1856 to 9/11/1873) (actor)
Ōtani Tomoemon V (五代目大谷友右衛門: from 1865 to 8/1869 and from 4/1871 until February 1, 1873) (actor)
Iwai Shijaku II (二代目岩井紫若: 2/1864 to 1/1872) (actor)
Sawamura Tosshō II (二代目沢村訥升: 1/1854 to 4/1879) (actor)
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