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Ichikawa Ebijūrō II as Horiguchi Manzaemon, Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke, Nakayama Bunshichi III as Hayashi Sanzemon, and Asao Gakujurō as the Ferryman Sanjūrō from the Kabuki Play Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song

Shunshosai Hokuchō

Cleveland Museum of Art

A triptych print depicting four men in traditional Japanese clothing, with three men holding swords and one man barefoot. The man on the left wears a blue and white robe, red undergarment, and black and white footwear; he holds a long sword. A man in a brown robe crouches before him, holding a sword. The central panel shows a man in a pink robe and blue undergarment crouching, and another man in a black robe with a white and black patterned kimono over it, holding a sword above his head. The right panel shows a man in a blue robe on top of another man in a white robe with a blue design; both have swords. The men are on a gray gradient ground that gets darker at the top; the background is black at the top. There are several Japanese characters throughout the image.

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900 × 447 px
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