The Actor Iwai Kumetaro as the Kamuro Tayori from the Shimbara District in Kyoto in Modorikago Nori no Shigayama, a Dance Play Performed as a Memorial to Nakamura Nakazo I at the Kiri Theater

Here, the actor Iwai Kumesaburō performed the role of a kamuro, a little girl attendant to a courtesan, often in training to become a courtesan herself. The play was Modorikago nori no Shigayama, performed in 1796 at the Kiri Theater. Set in Kyoto, it includes a scene in which the kamuro is carried home in a sedan chair by two bearers who engage in a debate over the relative merits of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka, a dialogue that later became quite famous. The artist Kunimasa, who reportedly studied under Utagawa Toyokuni, developed a passionate love for kabuki theater and worked on a large number of ōkubi-e portraits between 1795 and 1797.