2-894-008 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Minister of the Left (center, in the carriage), Ichikawa Ebizo III as Matsuo-maru (center, kneeling on the ground), Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakura-maru (right), and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru (left), in the "Carriage Stopping" (Kuruma-biki) Scene from the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Sixteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1776, Japan, c. 1776.