Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Two Japanese men in traditional clothing, likely kimonos, standing in a room. One man on the left holds a long red and brown sword-like object. He wears a brown kimono with a red and gold patterned hem and a black and red striped top. His hair is styled in a traditional Japanese manner. He stands barefoot on wooden blocks. The man on the right holds a long spear-like object. He wears a pink kimono with a gold patterned skirt and a pink and gold shawl. His hair is styled in a traditional Japanese manner. Both men are positioned in front of a wall with a grid-patterned window. A bamboo tree branch hangs down from the top of the image. The background of the image is a light beige color.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1780s
Medium:: Diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 565 × 624 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

Ichikawa Danjūrō V in the Scene "Five Chivalrous Commoners" from the Play A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as Kūdo no Suketsune, and Nakamura Rikō as Oiso no Tora

Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Edo

Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Osaka

Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Kyo

Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as Yasukata and Iwai Hanshirô IV as Utôin Performing a Hobbyhorse Dance (Harugoma odori) in “The Fifth Genji Mitsugi’s Robe (“Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode”)

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Miura Kunitae (right), Segawa Kikunojo III as Yasukata (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Utou (left), in the Play Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1782

Giving a Light by the Garyubai Plum Tree

Two Actors Dressed in Ceremonial Costumes

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

Reizei Carrying a Teshoku (Hand Lantern)

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of Joro-gumo (Harlot Spider) Disguised as the Maiko Tsumagiku (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake (left), in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781