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

Three vertical rectangular panels featuring Japanese men in traditional clothing. The man on the left panel has black hair, wears a white robe with red lining, and sandals. The middle panel man wears a black robe over a gray and yellow outfit, with headwear, and holds an object in one hand. The man on the right panel sports a robe with a multicolored circular pattern and holds a pipe-like object. Pink cherry blossoms are at the top of each panel. The background of each panel is a light beige color that transitions to yellow at the bottom. A small gray and black scale is at the bottom.

Artwork details

Date:: 11th month, 1786
Medium:: Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 599 × 483 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

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

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

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

Women on a Veranda

Drama of Hikeyahike Kanhiki Dojoji

Out for a Walk, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

Dancers of Tachibana Street

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

A Lady from a Samurai Household with Three Attendants, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fūzoku Azuma no nishiki)

Thirty-Six Poets

Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"

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

A Girl and Four Servants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

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

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I and Azuma Tozo, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

In the Room of a House of the Yoshiwara

Eleven Actors Celebrating the Festival of the Shrine of the Soga Brothers

Yoshitsune Serenading Jorurihime

Two Women Accompanied by a Maid

Print from Women Resting in the Votive Picture Hall at Asakusa

Omando: Ochie, Onokichi of the Matsuya, from the series Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu) (Omando, Matsuya uchi Ochie, Onokichi)