Ichikawa Komazo II in the Role of Ouchinosuke Ujiyasu from the Play 'San ga no Sho mutsumi no hanayome', Edo period (1615?1868), 1787, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 15 x 10 in. (38. 1 x 25. 4 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shunchō (Japanese, active ca. 1783?95), Three actors strike dramatic poses (mie) on the stage while behind them, on a raised platform, singers narrate the story with samisen music, a Kabuki musical type known as tokiwazu. The actor on the right is Ichikawa Komazo II (1737?1802), the future Matsumoto Koshiro IV, who became a pupil of Danjūrō IV in 1757 and took the name of Koshiro in 1772