Bando Shuka I (一代目坂東志うか) as Hitomaro Oroku (人丸お六) Ichikawa Kodanji IV (四代目市川小団次) as the Ghost of Shizuhata (賎機の亡霊, the Ghost in Shizuhata) Arashi Rikan III (三代目嵐璃寛) as Mago Kurige no Dohachi (馬士栗毛の胴八, a chestnut Horse-driver Dohachi) Otani Tomoemon IV (四代目大谷友右衛門) as as Akaboshi Daihachi (赤星大八) Bandô Sajûrô I (初代坂東佐十郎), Miyagawa Tsuyanojô (宮川艶之丞), and an unidentified actor as Tabiyakusha (旅役者, the Travelling Actor)
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1854
Maker: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
Medium: O-ban Nishiki-e (大判錦絵, large-format coloured print)
Object number: O.11.65-66
DescriptionScenes from a play titled 'Azuma Kudari Goju-san Tsugi (吾嬬下五十三駅, The capital (Kyoto) from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido highway),' performed at the Kawarazaki theatre (河原崎座) from the 4th day of the 8th month, 1854.
This scene is explained as Gojusan-tsugi no uchi Kanaya Shimada no aida Oigawa (五十三駅のうち金谷島田の間大井川, The Oi River between Kanaya and Shimada from The Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido highway). The Oigawa River was known for its rapids and for political reasons bridges could not be built, so people had to be guided across the river by a leader.
The ghost might be of someone who lost their life in the rapids.
The Author is Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥).
This scene is explained as Gojusan-tsugi no uchi Kanaya Shimada no aida Oigawa (五十三駅のうち金谷島田の間大井川, The Oi River between Kanaya and Shimada from The Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido highway). The Oigawa River was known for its rapids and for political reasons bridges could not be built, so people had to be guided across the river by a leader.
The ghost might be of someone who lost their life in the rapids.
The Author is Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥).
