- Titles The Kabuki Play "Spider Silk of Evening" (Proper)@来宵蜘蛛線 (Proper)@Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Sakata Kintoki,Onoe Baikō as Usui Sadamitsu, Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Courtesan Usugumo, actually the Spirit of a Spider, Nakamura Chūtarō as Urabe no Suetake and Ichikawa Kuzō III as Watanabe no Tsuna (Proper)@「坂田金時」（四代目）「中村芝翫」、「臼井貞光」「尾上梅幸」、「傾城薄雲実は蜘の性」（三代目）「沢村田之助」、「卜部季武」「中村仲太郎」、「渡辺ノ綱」（三代目）「市川九蔵」 (Proper)@Ghosts with Three Actors (Former title)
- Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese, 1797 - 1861
- Medium ink and color on paper (triptych)
- Dimensions 13 5/8 x 28 1/4 in. (34.6 x 71.8 cm)
- Credit Line Bequest of Professor William J. Dorn, 2007.23a-c
- Work Type woodblock prints
- Classification Prints
- Signature Recto, printed in red cartouche, upper right on left print: Kunisada paints (国貞画, Kunisada ga) Recto, printed in yellow cartouche, left on central print: Kunisada paints (国貞画, Kunisada ga) Recto, printed in red cartouche, upper left on right print: Kunisada paints (国貞画, Kunisada ga)
- Marks Recto, circular seal of publisher, bottom on left print: Rat 10 aratame (子十改) Recto, seal of publisher, below censor's seal on left print: Kichi, Ise, Kane (吉伊勢金) Recto, printed in cartouche, lower left of signature on central print: Kichi, Ise, Kane (吉伊勢金) Recto, seal of publisher, bottom right on right print: Kichi, Ise, Kane (吉伊勢金)
- Inscription Recto, printed in yellow cartouche, top right on right print: Urabe no Suetake (卜部季武) Recto, printed red cartouche, top right on right print: Nakamura Chūtarō (中村仲太郎) Recto, printed, in yellow cartouche, top left on right print: Usui Sadamitsu (臼井貞光) Recto, printed in red cartouche, top left on right print: Onoe Baikō (尾上梅幸) Recto, printed in yellow cartouche, upper right on central print: the Courtesan Usugumo, actually the Spirit of a Spider (傾城薄雲実は蜘の性, keisei Usugumo jitsu ha kumo no sei) Recto, printed in red cartouche, upper right on central print: Sawamura Tanosuke (沢村田之助) Recto, printed in yellow cartouche, top left on left print: Watanabe no Tsuna (渡辺ノ綱) Recto, printed in red cartouche, top left on left print: Ichikawa Kuzō (市川九蔵) Recto, printed in yellow cartouche, top right on left print: Sakata Kintoki (坂田金時) Recto, printed in red cartouche, top right on left print: Nakamura Shikan (中村芝翫)
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