Arts of Asia — Page 127

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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Chokichi in the Play Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1796

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1796

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

Katsukawa Shunjо̄, c. 1781

Onoe Matsusuke I as the Ghost of the Warrior Ki no Natora, in Kiku no En Mukashi no Miyako

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1791

The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Gohiiki no Hana Aikyo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the First Month, 1794

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1794

The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790

Katsukawa Shunsen, c. 1790

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Lady Tomoe (Tomoe Gozen) in the Play Onna Musha Kiku no Sen'yoki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

Katsukawa Shunjо̄, c. 1786

Iris

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1840s

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as a peddler of toys

Katsukawa Shunzan, c. 1782/90

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga (Soga of the Long, Hanging Sleeves in the Second Month), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Second Month, 1772

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1772

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsen, c. 1781

Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as a Fashionable Young Man (Wakashu)

Ippitsusai Buncho, About 1769

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kiyohime in the Play Hidakagawa Iriai-zakura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Ninth Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II in cloth-bleaching (Nuno sarashi) dance

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Shrine Dancers (Miko) Ohatsu and Onami

Ippitsusai Buncho, 1769

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

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro II and Ichimura Kichigoro in Unidentified Roles

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1768/70

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in Shakkyo Dance in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in an Unidentified Role

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1771

Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as Yamaoka no Saburō, in “The Ever-Blooming Potted Tree” (Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachino Ki)

Ippitsusai Buncho, 1769

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

Ofuji of the Yanagi Shop

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kyo no Jiro Disguised as an Uiro (Panacea) Peddler from the Play Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Princess Hitomaru (Hitormaru Hime) (?) in te Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1769 (?)

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actors Nakamura Tomijuro I as Enju Disguised as the Shirbyoshi Gio (right), and Nakamura Noshio I as Goo Disguised as Hotoke Gozen (left), in the Play Miyako-zome Gio Katsugi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Courtesan Handayu of the Nakaomiya House of Pleasure, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769/70

The Courtesan Mitsunoto of the Hishiya House, from the series "Sanjurokkasen (Thirty-six Flowers)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1772

Nikenjaya no Bosetsu, from the series "Azuma Hakkei"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

Yamashita Kyonosuke as Ono no Komachi

Unknown, Edo period (1615–1868), 1768

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Oiso no Tora (?) (right), and Otani Taniji (left)

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo II as Fujitaro, disguised as the ferryman Tomokichi, in the play "Shomei Mugen no Kane," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1767

Kitao Shigemasa, 1767

The Poet Ise Looking Up at a Flock of Returning Geese, from an untitled series of eight views

Kitao Shigemasa, early 1760s

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Nagoya Sanzaburo in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Tsuitachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1766

Kitao Shigemasa, 1766

No. 6: Tama River of Koyasan in Kii Province, from the series "Six Jewel Rivers of the Floating World (Ukiyo Mu Tamagawa)"

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1769

No. 5: Noda River in Mutsu Province, from the series "Six Jewel Rivers of the Floating World (Ukiyo Mu Tamagawa)"

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1769

Actors Arashi Sangorô II asMinamoto no Yoritomo and Segawa Kikunojô II as the Snow Woman in “Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums” (“Myôto- giku Izu no Kisewata”)

Ippitsusai Buncho, About 1770