The Actor Ichikawa Komazo Second with Raised Sword

Two vertical panels, a diptych, with a beige background. A man and a woman are depicted, each on a separate panel. The left panel shows a man with black hair, wearing an orange garment, a beige and white checkered robe over his left shoulder. A black and white sash around his waist. He stands on one leg and holds a long sword with both hands raised over his head. The right panel depicts a woman with long dark hair, wearing a pink kimono with white and black designs and a pink undergarment. She holds a short sword in her right hand. A bowl with chopsticks protruding is on the ground beside her. The background of both panels features a grassy hill on the left, with a small tree, and a black sky. A bird flies over the woman's head.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 594 × 625 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Omi no Kotoda (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Bamba no Chuda (left), in the Joruri "Sono Chidori Yowa no Kamisuki" (The Plovers: Combing Hair at Midnight), from Part Two of the Play O-atsurae-zome Soga no Hinagata (A Soga Pattern Dyed to Order), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Tenth Day of the Third Month, 1774

The Fourth Matsumoto Koshiro as a Man Dressed in a Short Kimono

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Tall Woman in a Flat Straw Hat

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro as a Man in Sumptuous Raiment, Standing in a Field, Mount Fuji in the Background

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okume (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Koshiba Yukienojo Disguised as the Eboshi Seller Rokusaburo (left), in the Play Katakiuchi Adana Kashiku, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1779

Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

The Actor Morita Kanya Wearing One Sword

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

Fishing at Iwaya on Enoshima

Ichikawa Danjuro Fifth as a Komuso Holding a Basket-Hat in His Right Hand

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773

Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō II, Nakajima Mihoemon II, Ichikawa Ebizō III, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the Play Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami)

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon and Arashi Sangorō

The Actors Otani Tomoemon I and Bando Mitsugoro I

Picture Book of the Warriors' Sandals (Ehon musha waraji) 絵本武者鞋

Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)