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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lady-in-Waiting Suho Disguised as Tsunokuniya Tsuna, in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781, c. 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Monk Mongaku Disguised as Seizaemon Bozu in the Play Oakinai Hiru ga Kojima, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784, c. 1784

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Princess Usuyuki (Usuyuki Hime) in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Morita Theater in the fifth month, 1774, c. 1774

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Kan Shojo, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Third Month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

The actor Ichikawa Udanji I as Sugawara no Michizane in the play "Shinrei Sugawara Jikki," performed at the Haruki Theater in the fourth month, 1883, 1883

Toyohara Kunichika

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Toraya: Arashi Ryuzo II as the monk Tojibo in the play "Hatsu Akebono Kaomise Soga," from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)", 1794

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Hakamadare Yasusuke or Watanabe no Tsuna (?) in the Play Shintenno Tonoi no Kisewata (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1781 (?), c. 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Okoma (right), and Arashi Sangoro III as the Hairdresser Obana Saizaburo (left), in the Play Koi Musume Mukashi Hachijo, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Shinozuka Goro Sadatsuna in the play "Ume Momiji Date no Okido," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1760, 1760

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sakata Hyogonosuke Kintoki, in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata (Raiko's Four Intrepid Retainers in the Costume of the Night Watch), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1781, c. 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kumenosuke in the play "Nanohana Akebono Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the second month, 1741, 1741

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII (Ebizo V) as Shirafuji Genta in the play "Sono Uwasa Sakura no Irodoki," from the series "Yakusha oiri sakazuki", 1825

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Arashi Hinaji I (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II (left), as Princess Sakura (Sakura Hime) (?) and Shimizu Tonoinosuke (?), 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 woodblock print; hosoban, keyblock proof impression.

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as a White Fox Disguised as Ukishima Daihachi in the Play Shinasadame Soma no Mombi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1770, c. 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kajiwara Genta no Kagetoki (?), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Sakata Hangoro III as Omi no Kotoda in the Play Haru no Nishiki Date-zome Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1790, c. 1790

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Hito-maru Disguised as the Courtesan Chiyozaki, in the Play Kuruwa no Hana Katsuragi no Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third Month, 1775, c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; center and left sheets of triptych.

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shume no Hangan Morihisa (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Chujo (left), in the Play Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

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