An Unidentified Actor as a Farmer with a Basket on His Back

Three-panel artwork. The left panel depicts a man in a red, green, and yellow patterned top with long, gray and white striped pants. He carries a basket on his back. The middle panel shows a man wearing a purple and green robe with purple pants. The right panel features a man with a sword, dressed in a robe with a red, white, and purple pattern and a purple section with a yellow and green pattern. The background of each panel includes a beige upper section and a yellow lower section. There are pink cherry blossoms on branches. Behind the men are horizontal pink and gray lines. The background behind the panels is white.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 599 × 454 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō III, Onoe Matsusuke I, and Sawamura Sōjūrō III

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - No. 2 (Chikurin shichiken sono ni), from the series "Popular Versions of Sages (Fuzoku kenjin ryaku)"

The Fifth Ichikawa Danjuro as a Man Standing in a Room

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a courtesan (right) and Sawamura Sojuro III as Oyamada Taro (?) disguised as Tarosaku of Oyamada Village (left) in the play "Azuma no Mori Sakae Kusunoki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1779

Entertainers of Tachibana (Kitchugi), from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

Actors Onoe Tamizô I, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, and Osagawa Tsuneyo II, in (possibly) “A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors” (“Date Nishiki Tsui noYumitori”)