While digging though old files I just found this caption I wrote up some years ago to accompany the print. For what it’s worth…

The original was designed by Kitao Kōsuisai (Shigemasa) and is named Sankō ni-ju-hachi Kishō.

The artists shown are, from top centre and going clockwise

Yokoya Sōmin (1670 ~ 1733)

Tsu Jimpo (1721 ~ 1762)

Nomura Tomoyoshi

Ozaki Naomasa , with spectacles (d.1782)

Ichinomiya Nagatsune (1722 ~ 1786)

Tsuchiya Yasuchika I , examining a kozuka and also wearing spectacles (1670 ~ 1744)

Yoshioka Buzen (no Suke Shigehiro) (d.1753)

Hamano Masayuki, pointing discreetly at a banana peel. (1696~1769)

Hamano Noriyuki ((d.1787)

Then, in the green Haori and resting his chin on his hand is,

Iwamoto Ryōkwan (teacher of the more famous Konkwan)

to the right of him and speaking over the shoulder of the man in front is ,

Furukawa Genchin

The older gentleman at bottom far right is,

Umetada Naritsugu (1678~1752)

next to him, and holding his haori-himo in his hands is,

Hosono Sōzaemon (Masamori) (c.1700)

In the yellow haori with green number ‘two’s” is,

Nara Masanaga

slightly behind him, holding a fan (?) and in the bottom centre is,

Ishiyama Mototada (1669~1734)

just behind Mototada and to his left is,

Nara Sōyō (Toshiharu)

In front of Sōyō, in a striped haori and wearing a head scarf is,

Nara Toshimitsu

Behind him and leaning slightly backwards is Nara Tsuneshige.

Behind Tsuneshige we have Goto Seijō, in a green kimono.

Above Nara Tsuneshige and Goto Seijō,, holding an opened fan is Mito Michinaga (d. 1768)

Next up is,

Murakami Jōchiku, the name plate only reads Jōchiku but I never forget a face. Incidentally two of his daughters were tsuba-shi also, Jōsui and Jōtetsu.

Behind Jōchiku and wearing a yellow haori is Ōmori Terumasa (1705~1772)

To the left and just above Terumasa we have Inagawa Naokatsu (1719~1761)

To the right of Naokatsu and looking off to his right is Yanagawa Naomasa (1692~1757)

Above him and facing us directly is Yokoya Sōyo II (third Yokoya master) (d.1779)

Behind him, and sporting two swords, is Sugiura Joi (1700~1761)

Behind him, and with what looks to be a Tachi, is, Hashinobe Masasada

and lastly but certainly not least, the grand old master, Nara Toshinaga (1670~1733)