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A work made of collage with rubbed graphite finish, white ink lettering, black tape.

Open–Air Theatre for Classic Plays, Highland Park, Illinois, Annotated Plan, 1928

Franz Lipp

A work made of woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e.

The Actors Ichimura Tamagashiwa I as Iwaki Hime, Murayama Heiemon III as Katsuta Jiro, and Katsuyama Matagoro as Minamoto no Yoshiie in the play "Yoroi Kurabe Oshu Kogane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1716, 1716

Torii Kiyomasu I

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

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (center), 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. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725, 1725

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Shirabyoshi Katsuragi, Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the monk Meigetsubo, and Otani Hiroji III as the monk Izayoibo, in the play "Edoganoko Musume Dojoji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1783, 1783

Torii Kiyonaga

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

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V, Probably as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Sanjo Uemon, Leader of a Robber Gang, in Part Two of the Play Fude-hajime Kanjincho (First Calligraphy of the New Year: Kanjincho [The Subscription List]), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1784, c. 1784

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Taira no Masakado Disguised as Otomo no Kuronushi (?) or Sugawara Micihizane (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?) or Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First or Fifth Month, 1775 (?), c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

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

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III, Possibly as the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785, c. 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

A work made of charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto and verso), on pale brown wove paper.

Two Girls Playing on Combs (recto); Sketch of Seated Woman with Fragment of Another Figure (verso), c. 1790

Thomas Barker

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

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII, Ichimura Kamezo I as Wankyu, and Nakamura Kiyosaburo I as Matsuyama in the play "Mitsugimono Irifune Nagoya," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the seventh month, 1750, 1750

Torii Kiyonobu II

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

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Onio Shinzaemon and Ichikawa Masugoro as Soga no Goro in the play "Furiwake-gami Hatsugai Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1735, 1735

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kakogawa Honzo, from the play "Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the play "Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1769, 1769

Torii Kiyomitsu I

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

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo and Nakamura Shichisaburo II as Hanbei in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744, 1744

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet.

The Mountain Scene from the play Imoseyama (Imoseyama, yama no dan), section of a sheet from the series "Reflections of Dramas in Cutouts (Harimaze joruri kagami)", 1854

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

The Actors Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (right), Onoe Kikugoro I as Soga no Taro (center), and Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (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; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Nobuyori Disguised as the Yakko Gunnai (right), and Miyazaki Hachizo as the Lay Monk Hambyo Nyudo (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; vertical shikishiban diptych, surimono.

The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kan Shojo (Sugawara Michizane) and Segawa Kikunojo V as Umeomaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the ninth month, 1832, 1832

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper.

Bacchanale, with Satyr Playing Reeds, n.d.

Circle of Bartolomeo Biscaino

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