In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This print is from a group in which famous Kabuki theater actors who never performed together stand in for the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. Images of the Seven Gods symbolize hope for fortune in the coming year, and the set may have been made for the New Year of 1780. Here, Onoe Matsusuke I poses beneath curtains at the entrance to a place of business. They read, “House of Ebisu.” Ebisu is the god of fishermen, which may account for the wave imagery on the actor’s inner robe.
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Torii Kiyomitsu (Japanese, 1735–1785) — Matsumoto Koshiro IV
Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762–1819) — Onoe Matsusuke I as
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英
Katsukawa Shunkō (Japanese, 1743–1812) — Otani Hiroji III as
Katsukawa Shunkō
Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762–1819) — Ichikawa Monnosuke 
Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769–1825) — Segawa Michinosuke 
Torii Kiyohiro (Japanese, active 1750s-70s) — Ichikawa Danju
Tōshūsai Sharaku
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章
Katsukawa Shunkō
