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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Munesada, Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Sumizome, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei, in the play "Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1784, 1784

Torii Kiyonaga

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

The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Hagun Taro (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Izutsu no Suke Narihira (center), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kose no Kanaoka Disguised as Sogoro the Charcoal Maker, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Otomo no Kuronushi 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 lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

The Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same way one finds men who play the harp, hemstitch neckerchiefs, do embroidering with their hands, and, who in a case of emergency know how to do a little cooking, plate 2 from Monomanes, 1840

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

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

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Ageha no Chokichi Disguised as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kaido Ichi Yawaragi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1778, c. 1778

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (right), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kakogawa Honzo (left), in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1771, c. 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Shii no Shosho Okinori 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; oban.

The actor Seki Sanjuro II as Sasaki Saemon in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Danmaku," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1818, 1818

Utagawa Toyokuni I

A work made of engraving on laid paper.

Spring (Two Children Playing with Bird), from The Four Seasons, 1601

Jan Saenredam

A work made of drypoint in black on cream wove paper.

Play, from Six American Etchings (series one): The New Republic, 1924

Kenneth Hayes Miller

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Seigen (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Shimizu Tonoinosuke Kiyoharu (left), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Beggar in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769, c. 1769

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Ito Kuro Disguised as Banta in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; diptych; illustrations from the later edition of the book ehon butai ogi.

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Yawata no Saburo (right), and Otani Tomoemon I as the Yakko Emohei (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Sotoku Taishi (?) Disguised as a Young Building Worker, in the Play Shitenno-ji Nobori Kuyo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Moriya no Daijin Disguised as Rokuju-rokubu in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Yujiro I as Osai, a Female Hairdresser, in the Play Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Yoshizawa Ayame II as Hotoke Gozen in the play "Onna Monji Heike Monogatari," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

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