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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Kojoro-gitsune (Female Fox) Disguised as Omiki in the Play Komachi-mura Shibai no Shogatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1789, c. 1789

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as Lady Hotoke (Hotoke Gozen) in the Play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785, c. 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

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

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Minamoto no Yorinobu in the Play Kikujido Shuen no Iwaya, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775, c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Tsukisenu Haru Hagoromo Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in theThird Month, 1777, c. 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Tsuchiya Umegawa Disguised as the Female Sumo Wrestler Oyodo (?) in the Play Naniwa no Onna-zumo (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Sixth Month, 1770 (?), c. 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Goro and Segawa Kikunojo III as Tsukisayo, in the play "Nanakusa Yosooi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1782, c. 1782

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print.

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), c. 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print.

The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), c. 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kitsune ga Saki Otama (?) in the Play Miyakodori Yayoi no Watashi (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1787 (?), c. 1787

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of color woodblock print.

The actor Ichikawa Hakuen as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo in the play "Hatsumonbi Yosooi Soga," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the first month, 1802, 1802

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Yokambei (right), Nakamura Tomijuro I as Kuzunoha (center), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Yakambei (left), in the Last Scene from the Play Shinodazuma (The Wife from Shinoda Forest), Performed as a Supplement to the Play Kikyo-zome Onna Urakata (Female Diviner in Deep Violet), at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from a theatrical picture-book.

Right-Hand Page: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo III as Soga no Goro (right), and Segawa Kikunojo IV as Onna Asahina (left), in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga; Left-hand Sheet: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Furugori Shinzaemon (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V and Kagekiyo (right) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okumi of the Mieido Fan Shop (?) in the Play Sanjuk-koku Yobune no Hajimari (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1789 (?), c. 1789

Katsukawa Shun'ei

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

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1772 (?), c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of full tan morocco binding; boards die cut in the shape of u; onlays on spine in shape of b; black silk endleaves; crown stamped in gold on front endleaf; author stamped in gold on back endleaf; gilt edges; original paper covers bound in.

Ubu roi: Drame en cinq actes (King Ubu: A Play in Five Acts), Published 1921; rebound 1934-1935

Mary Reynolds

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Michichiba in the Play Azuma no Mori Sakae Kusunoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779, c. 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Naniwazu in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Kasahari Hokkyo in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Yoshizawa Iroha I as Tamamo no Mae (?) in the Play Sakuya Kono Hana no Kaomise (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1776 (?), c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Taira no Masakado Disguised as the Pilgrim Junjo in the Play Masakado Kammuri no Hatsuyuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777, c. 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho

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