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

The Actors Otani Hiroemon III as Shinagawa Okaminosuke (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arashishi Otokonosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771/72

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Kameya Jujiro I as Soga no Juro and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oiso no Tora in the play ”Hatsu Hikage Maizuru Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1737, 1737

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of woodblock- printed book; 1 vol..

Kyōgen zukushi, 1678

Hishikawa Moronobu

A work made of color woodblock print; aiban.

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Kitsune (Heavenly Child - The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777, c. 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Afternoon Visit, Ola and I Playing Nipple (Photo by Sodiq) from the series The Royal House of Allure, 2019

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of albumen print, stereo.

Playing Wah-koo-chad-ah (Mocasin) a favorite game, No. 484 from the series "Among the Winnebago Indians", 1870/1908

Henry Hamilton Bennett

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

The Actors Sawamura Kijuro I as Ikazuchi Shinno, Prince of Thunder (far left), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo (second from left), Nakamura Sukegoro II as Seitaka Doji (second from right), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Kongara Doji (far right), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771/72

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

With that Play One Catches Only Blows, 1836

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

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; hosoban yoko-e, benizuri-e.

The Actors Arashi Otohachi I as Fukakusa no Shosho, Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ariwara no Yukihira, and Nakamura Matsue I as Murasame in the play "Kisoe Uta Sakae Komachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1762, 1762

Tomikawa Fusanobu (Ginsetsu)

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; three sheets of a four-sheet composition.

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786, c. 1786

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden in the play "Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums (Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata)," performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1770, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho

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

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Minamoto no Yorimasa (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as Yatsurugi Zaemon (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (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 woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color.

Kumano of the Hanabishiya as Shiko (Actor Ichikawa Shiko I) Playing Sukehachi (Shiko yaku Sukehachi), from the series Gion Festival, 1815

Yûrakusai Nagahide

A work made of quarter vellum with white paper decorated with fleurs-de-lis; endpapers decorated with gold fleurs-de-lis; title stamped in gold on spine; original paper covers bound in; inscription and pen and ink drawing by cocteau.

Les chevaliers de la table ronde: Pièce en trois actes (The Knights of the Roundtable: A play in three acts), Published 1937; rebound 1937-1942

Mary Reynolds

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

The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II, Possibly as Misao Gozen, 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 color woodblock print; double-page illustration from an unidentified theatrical picture-book.

The Actors Ichikawa Danzo IV as Arakawa Taro Takesada Disguised as the Palanquin Bearer Tarobei (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Abe no Sadato Disguised as the Pilgrim Kuriyagawa Jirodayu (left), in the Play Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1782, c. 1782

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kanto Koroku and Arashi Tominosuke I as Hayasaki in the play "Hokazo Yunzei Hachinoki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Playing in the Square Elounta, Crete, from the series "A Greek Portfolio", 1961/67

Constantine Manos

A work made of color woodblock print.

Lori no Ume, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Kôgyo

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