The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as the Wet Nurse Reizei, Ichikawa Komazo I as Suruga no Hachiro in the Guise of the Shamisen Player Kichiroku (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Tada no Kurando in the Guise of the Palanquin Bearer Kichinai (left), in the Scene "Kiku-zumo" (Chrysanthemum Sumo) from the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768, Japan, c. 1768.

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