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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of triptych.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Kanaishi in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; koban.

Act Two: The Quarters of Momonoi Wakasanosuke from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), c. 1795

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e.

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II (formerly Utagawa Shirogoro) as Matsuomaru and Azumo Tozo I as Sakuramaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater, 1750, 1750

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A work made of color woodblock print.

Sarumuko, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Kôgyo

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Yamamoto Iwanojo as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Fuwa Bansaku in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Yamabuki, the sister of Hata Rokurozaemon, in the play "Shikai Nami Yawaragi Taiheiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1763, 1763

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of triptych.

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Ghost of the Renegade Monk Seigen in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1783, c. 1783

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan and Segawa Kikunojo I as Terute no Mae in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747, 1747

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in Shakkyo Dance in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actor Sanjo Kantaro II as Oshichi in the play "Nanakusa Fukki Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1718, 1718

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print.

Nagamitsu, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Gyokusei

A work made of woodblock print; chuban, keyblock proof impression.

Act Ten: The Amakawaya House from the play Chushingura (Treausry of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), early 1790s

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; hashira-e.

Young Woman Hanging a Mosquito Net as Cat Plays at Her Feet, c. 1774

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?).

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as a Thunder Goddess in the Play Onna Narukami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1770, c. 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Ike no Shoji in the play "Oguri Choseiden," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1725, 1725

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over touches of black chalk (recto and verso), on ivory laid paper.

Polyphemus Throwing Boulders at the Fleeing Aeis and Galatea (recto); Polyphemus Playing His Reed Pipes for Galatea (verso), n.d.

Felice Giani

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?).

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shinokobe Shoji Yukihira in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji and Segawa Kikujiro I as Hitachi Kohagi in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747, 1747

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Otani Oniji I as Soga no Goro and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as the sister of Yoshinaka in the play "Fuji no Yuki Mitsugi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1746, 1746

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of watercolor heightened with touches of white gouache over graphite on cream wove paper.

Eton from the Playing-Fields, n.d.

George Pyne

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