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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Dozaburo (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?), c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Soga no Juro Sukenari (?) 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 Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779, c. 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769, c. 1769

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Kagekiyo Disguised as Omi Yawatanosuke 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 color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e.

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ushiwakamaru in the play "Kiichi Hogen Shinanguruma," performed at the Morita Theater in the eleventh month, 1754, 1754

Nishimura Shigenaga

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1772, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Kunii Kurando in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at te Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778, c. 1778

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Scene from the Play "Imoseyama", late 1780s

Katsukawa Shunchô

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 lithograph in black on white wove paper.

Theater Plays in Beijing. The love for the theater in Beijing is reaching almost absurd dimensions, and strangely enough in all the plays it is about whether Mr. Alfred will marry Miss Josephine. There is no better proof for the stupidity of the Chinese people caused by opium, because they don't even realise that they see the same play every night and they stand in line in front of different theaters every day, worried that Miss Josephine marries Mr. Oscar without them attending the touching wedding ceremony, plate 27 from Voyage En Chine, 1845

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Oboshi Yuranosuke in the play "Edo no Hana Ako no Shiogama," performed at the Kiri Theater in the fourth month, 1796, 1796

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Akoya in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779, c. 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Shutokuin in the Play Tokimekuya O-Edo no Hatsuyuki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

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

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Female Fox-Fairy Otatsu-gitsune Disguised as Shizuka Gozen in the Play Kogane Saku Date no Okida, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1792, c. 1792

Katsukawa Shun'ei

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

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro and Ikushima Daikichi II as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Oiso no Tora (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?), c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio, Wife of Ito Sukekiyo, in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772, c. 1772

Ippitsusai Buncho

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

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Hatakeyama Shigetada Disguised as Honjo Soheiji (?) in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1789 (?), c. 1789

Katsukawa Shun'ei

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