Dis-Play/Re-Play, 2016

Project Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okumura Masanobu

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

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

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Naoe in the Play Tsuma Mukae Koshiji no Fumizuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Monk Seigen (?) in the Play Saikai Soga Nakamura (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1793 (?), c. 1793

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Angel Playing an Instrument in a Decorated Initial "R" with Flora, Fauna and Grotesque, from an Antiphonal, n.d.

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Spirit of Taira no Masakado Disguised as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1775, c. 1775

Tamagawa Shunsui

The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo I as Kiyo-hime in the Play Hanagatami Kazaori Eboshi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1774, c. 1774

Katsukawa Shunsho