Ichikawa Yaozo III as Agemaki no Sukeroku, Nakamura Riko I as Agemaki, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shirozakeuri, Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Kamuro Ageha, Nakamura Hikotaro as Kamuro Kocho in the Scene from the Drama Sukeroku Kuruwa no Natorigusa

This Torii Kiyonaga design, held by the Art Institute of Chicago and recorded by ukiyo-e.org, illustrates a star-studded performance of Sukeroku Kuruwa no Natorigusa, with Ichikawa Yaozo III in the lead role of Agemaki no Sukeroku, Nakamura Riko I as the courtesan Agemaki, Ichikawa Danjuro V as the rival Hige no Ikyu, Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the white-sake seller Shirozakeuri, Ichikawa Ebizo IV as the kamuro Ageha, and Nakamura Hikotaro as the kamuro Kocho. Sukeroku, the celebrated Ichikawa family role, dramatizes an Edo townsman's pursuit of the courtesan Agemaki within a concealed Soga revenge plot. Kiyonaga, as fourth-generation head of the Torii school, was responsible for the workshop's traditional task of providing actor portraits and billboards to the licensed Edo theaters, and ensemble pieces such as this allowed him to display the principal cast as a unified group within a single print. He uses his characteristic tall, broad-shouldered proportions and calm contour lines to organize the figures, distributing crests and costume motifs so that audiences familiar with the play could identify each actor and role at a glance. The Ichikawa lineage figures—Yaozo III, Danjuro V, Monnosuke II, and Ebizo IV—dominate the cast, reflecting the dominance of the Ichikawa house in Sukeroku productions of the period. The print therefore documents both a major kabuki ensemble of the An'ei–Tenmei era and the Torii school's central role in fixing such performances in collective memory.