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

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

Shunshosai Hokuchō

1829

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanticism Early 19th Century Cityscape

About this work

This painting shows four actors from a Kabuki play. They are dressed in traditional Japanese clothes. The actors are performing a scene from "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song". This play was written in 1778 and performed in 1829. It was the last performance for one of the actors, Ichikawa Ebijūrō II, who died later that year. To learn more about the artist who created this work, look up Shunshosai Hokuchō.

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke and Nakayama Bunshichi III as Hayashi Sanzemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke and Nakayama Bunshichi III as Hayashi Sanzemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō
Ichikawa Ebijūrō II as Horiguchi Manzaemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Ichikawa Ebijūrō II as Horiguchi Manzaemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō
Asao Gakujurō as the Ferryman Sanjūrō from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Asao Gakujurō as the Ferryman Sanjūrō from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō
Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Horiguchi Manzaemon

Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Horiguchi Manzaemon

Utagawa Kunihiro
Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Ude no Jirobei

Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Ude no Jirobei

Gigadō Ashiyuki
勝川春章画　二代目小佐川常世・五代目市川団十郎|Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

勝川春章画　二代目小佐川常世・五代目市川団十郎|Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Katsukawa Shunshō
Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi Kurōbei in "Mirror of Naniwa: The Summer Festival"

Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi Kurōbei in "Mirror of Naniwa: The Summer Festival"

Shunbaisai Hokuei
春好斎北洲画 初代浅尾勇次郎・初代市川鰕十郎　 『傾城佐野の船橋』|Kabuki Actors Asao Yūjirō as Sano Genzaemon and Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Miura Arajirō, in the play Keisei Sano no Funabashi

春好斎北洲画 初代浅尾勇次郎・初代市川鰕十郎　 『傾城佐野の船橋』|Kabuki Actors Asao Yūjirō as Sano Genzaemon and Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Miura Arajirō, in the play Keisei Sano no Funabashi

Shunkōsai Hokushū
Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke; Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Horiguchi Manzaemon

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke; Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Horiguchi Manzaemon

Shigenao
Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke

Shigenao
H Beard Print Collection

H Beard Print Collection

Utagawa Kunisada II
Kataoka Nizaemon VII and Ichikawa Yaozo III in a Confrontation Beside a Waterfall

Kataoka Nizaemon VII and Ichikawa Yaozo III in a Confrontation Beside a Waterfall

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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