Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Otani Hiroji III as Koga Saburo. Artist: Katsukawa Shunsho (Japanese, 1726-1792). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 12 x 5 5/8 in. (30.5 x 14.3 cm). Date: ca. 1771.In the play Branches of a Flowering Potted Tree (Konohana Yotsugi no Hachinoki), the devil Ko-kakeyama (the evil spirit of Wakasa no Zenji Yasumura) holds a scroll in his mouth and a hammer in his hand and wears a crown of three flaming candles on his head. At the hour of the ox (two to four in the morning) on a rainy night, he performs the incantation known as ushi no toki mairi, driving three nails into the boll of a tree and uttering a curse upon the object of his hatred. Koga Saburo, seated in the foreground, is ordered to defeat this devil spirit. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ko-kakeyama and Otani Hiroji III as Koga Saburo. Artist: Katsukawa Shunsho (Japanese, 1726-1792). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 12 x 5 5/8 in. (30.5 x 14.3 cm). Date: ca. 1771.In the play Branches of a Flowering Potted Tree (Konohana Yotsugi no Hachinoki), the devil Ko-kakeyama (the evil spirit of Wakasa no Zenji Yasumura) holds a scroll in his mouth and a hammer in his hand and wears a crown of three flaming candles on his head. At the hour of the ox (two to four in the morning) on a rainy night, he performs the incantation known as ushi no toki mairi, driving three nails into the boll of a tree and uttering a curse upon the object of his hatred. Koga Saburo, seated in the foreground, is ordered to defeat this devil spirit. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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