Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Ōtani Hiroji III as Kōga Saburō ca. 1771 Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 Japanese In the play Branches of a Flowering Potted Tree (Konohana Yotsugi no Hachinoki), the devil Ko-kakeyama (the evil spirit of Wakasa no Zenji Yasumura) holds a scroll in his mouth and a hammer in his hand and wears a crown of three flaming candles on his head. At the hour of the ox (two to four in the morning) on a rainy night, he performs the incantation known as ushi no toki mairi, driving three nails into the boll of a tree and uttering a curse upon the object of his ha
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Ōtani Hiroji III as Kōga Saburō ca. 1771 Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 Japanese In the play Branches of a Flowering Potted Tree (Konohana Yotsugi no Hachinoki), the devil Ko-kakeyama (the evil spirit of Wakasa no Zenji Yasumura) holds a scroll in his mouth and a hammer in his hand and wears a crown of three flaming candles on his head. At the hour of the ox (two to four in the morning) on a rainy night, he performs the incantation known as ushi no toki mairi, driving three nails into the boll of a tree and uttering a curse upon the object of his hatred. Kōga Saburō, seated in the foreground, is ordered to defeat this devil Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Ōtani Hiroji III as Kōga Saburō 36890
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