This print is the eighth in the Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番, "The Eighteen Great Kabuki Plays") series of prints by the artist Kiyotada (also known as Tadakiyo). It depicts actor Ichikawa Danjûrô IX as Kumedera Danjô in the kabuki play Kenuki ("Tweezers"). Kenuki was originally staged in 1742 in Osaka at the Ônishi no Shibai and starred Ichikawa Ebizô II. For more information on the play, see this description.

In this print, Kumedera Danjô, a retainer of the Lord Bun'ya no Toyohide, looks towards his tweezers, which are floating in mid-air. Lord Toyohide's fiancé, Nishiki-no-Mae, has an odd illness in which her hair stands on end, and in the story, Danjô realises that there is a magnet hidden somewhere in the house by seeing his tweezers floating. He removes Nishiki-no-Mae's iron hair ornament and her "illness" is cured - her hair no longer stands on end. He then kills the villain, who has been hiding in the ceiling with a big magnet! As with all of the prints in this series, the detailed karazuri blind-embossing in the background is a highlight.