Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden), Utagawa Kuniyoshi, circa 1840

Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The actor nakamura utaemon iv (left) as inukai kempachi on the roof of the horyukaku temple pulling a chain and onoe kikugorō iii (right) as inuzuka shino having caught the chain's other end, struggling with three other opponents. Poems inscribed above. Date: circa 1840. Dimensions: Height: 37.70 centimetres (l); ; Height: 37.70 centimetres (r); Width: 25.90 centimetres (l); Width: 25.80 centimetres (r). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Mitate haiyu Hakkenshi 見立俳優八犬士 (Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin's Hakkenden) (BM 2008,3037.12602)