Actors as musicians: left panel - Nakamura Sōjūrō (中村宗十郎); center - Iwai Hanshirō VIII (岩井半四郎); right - Nakamura Shikan IV (中村芝翫)

Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周) (artist 1835 – 1900)

Actors as musicians: left panel - Nakamura Sōjūrō (中村宗十郎); center - Iwai Hanshirō VIII (岩井半四郎); right - Nakamura Shikan IV (中村芝翫)

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04/1874

Signed: Toyoharu Kunichika hitsu (豊原国周筆)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinzaburō
Date seal: 4/1874
Waseda University - the right-hand panel
Waseda University - the left-hand panel
Waseda University - the center panel

These three actors appear in a different Kunichika triptych in the British Museum. That one dates from 1877.
Daikokuya Kinzaburō (大黒屋金三郎) (publisher)
Iwai Hanshirō VIII (八代目岩井半四郎: from 2/1872 to 2/19/1882) (actor)
Nakamura Shikan IV (四代目中村芝翫: 7/1860 to January 1899) (actor)
Nakamura Sōjūrō (中村宗十郎: from 1/1865 to 10/8/1889) (actor)