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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781, c. 1781

Katsukawa Shunsen

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV in a "Shibaraku" Role, Possibly from the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768, c. 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) (?) in the Play Soga Musume Choja (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1784 (?), c. 1784

Katsukawa Shunjо̄

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych.

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Aigo no Waka (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hachio-maru Aratora (left), in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774, c. 1774

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Ichikawa Masugoro as Kusunoki Masatsura and Hayakawa Denshiro as Shinzaemon in the play "Hachijin Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1727, 1727

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Dozaemon Denkichi in the Play Yaoya Oshichi, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Fourth Month, 1785, c. 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

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

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the courtesan Umegae in the play "Hiragana Seisuiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1764, 1764

Suzuki Harunobu

Dis-Play/Re-Play

Dis-Play/Re-Play, 2016

Project Projects

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790, c. 1790

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Hanagasa Dance in the Play Iromi-gusa Shiki no Somewake, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1781, c. 1781

Katsukawa Shunjо̄

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Chunagon Yukihira (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho

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

The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Lady Tokiwa (Tokiwa Gozen) (?) in the Play Kimmenuki Genke no Kakutsuba (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1791 (?), c. 1791

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Oboshi Yuranosuke in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1783, c. 1783

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Seigen in the Play Ise-goyomi Daido Ninen, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fall, 1768, c. 1768

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Oboshi Yuranosuke in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1786, c. 1786

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Kureha (?) in the Play Shusse Taiheiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1775 (?), c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Hitomaru Disguised as the Geisha Oshun in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783, c. 1783

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e.

Kotatsu Dojoji, no. 5 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shimokōbe Shōji Yukihira and Segawa Yūjiro I as Matsukaze, Sister of Togashi no Saemon, in “Your Favorite Play: The Subscription List” (Gohiiki Kanjinchō), c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of a multisheet print.

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Sakura-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1772, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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