Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Ōtani Hiroji III as Kōga Saburō, 九代目市村羽左衛門・三代目大谷廣次, Edo period (1615–1868


Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Ōtani Hiroji III as Kōga Saburō, 九代目市村羽左衛門・三代目大谷廣次, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1771, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 x 5 5/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792), 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


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