From left to right: Iwai Hanshirō VIII (岩井半四郎), Ichikawa Gonjūrō II (市川権十郎), Nakamura Nakazō III (中村仲蔵), Ichikawa Metora I (市川女寅) and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (市川団十郎)
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Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周) (artist 1835 – 1900)

From left to right: Iwai Hanshirō VIII (岩井半四郎), Ichikawa Gonjūrō II (市川権十郎), Nakamura Nakazō III (中村仲蔵), Ichikawa Metora I (市川女寅) and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (市川団十郎)

Print

05/01/1875
28.7 in x 14.17 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock prints
Signed: Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
豊原国周筆
Publisher: Ōmiya Kyūjirō
(Marks 415 - seal closest to 30-034)
Date seal: 1875
Tokyo Metropolitan Library
The National Museum of Asian Art - the center panel only - transferred from the Hirshhorn Museum The text on the middle panel reads - somewhat: 馬車ハしんばしすてんじよへはしるわらへんたへまなく☆がら／＼いそひて参りましよらつぱハぴつぴきぴいぎよ

The text on the left panel reads - somewhat: しやハ☆／＼千里軒別☆にこどもしかられて馬ハかけだすしやん／＼／＼車でさアきなせへ [This is taken directly from the Tokyo Metropolitan Library site.]
Ōmiya Kyūjirō (近江屋久次郎) (publisher)
Meiji era (明治時代: 1868-1912) (genre)
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (九代目市川團十郞: July 1874 to 1903) (actor)
Ichikawa Gonjūrō II (二代目市川権十郎) (actor)
Nakamura Nakazō III (三代目中村仲蔵: from 9/1865 to December 1886) (actor)
Iwai Hanshirō VIII (八代目岩井半四郎: from 2/1872 to 2/19/1882) (actor)
Ichikawa Metora I (初代市川女寅) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)