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Iwai sagenta [to] katsuyama matagorō

Print shows actors Iwai Sagenta and Katsuyama Matagorō, one reclining on a veranda, the other about to climb steps to the veranda.

Takenuki gorō

Print shows a man, possibly Tokimune Soga (Gorō), uprooting bamboo.

[A popular hero, Shibaraku]

Print shows an actor as a samurai making a grand entrance at the "Shibaraku" moment on the kabuki stage.

[A beauty with an umbrella]

Print shows the actor Nakamura Sanya as a young woman standing beneath an umbrella, wearing a head covering and geta.

Sannin no yakusha

Print shows three actors, two playing shamisens and one with a teapot or sake pot, two are in the roles of women.

Ichikawa danjūrō [to] ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke as a courtesan and Ichikawa Danjūrō as a merchant.

Ogawa zengorō, ichikawa danjūrō, yamashita kinsaku

Ichikawa ebizō no shinozuka goseki yaburi

Ichikawa danjūrō [to] sakata hangorō

[The black knight]

Print shows a man, possibly an actor or a samurai, with sword, holding an umbrella, wearing a black kimono and geta.

Sawamura kodenji to otoko

Print shows two actors, one holding a fan, the other, in the role of a woman, is holding a drum.

Ichikawa ebizō no kinzaemon yorikata

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Ebizō as Kinzaemon Yorikata fighting a tiger.

Ichikawa ebizō nakamura denkurō ichikawa yaozō

[Warrior or actor with long hair and bracelets around wrist and ankles...

Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Print shows actors Onoe Kikugorō and Nakamura Kiyosaburō, wearing geta, portraying street musicians.

Sawamura Sōjūrō no Soga no Jūrō to Ichikawa Yaozō no Soga no Gorō

Print shows two actors (possibly Sawamura Sōjūrō, 1685-1756, and Ichikawa Yaozō) in the roles of two brothers who attempt to revenge their father's murder.

Ichimura kamezō nakamura kiyoza[sa?]

Print shows the actors Ichimura Kamezō and Nakamura Kiyoza, one portraying a female role.

[Caricature of musician or actor dancing, with a cat at his feet]

[Caricature of a woman dancing]

Onoe kikugorō no sanjō kokaji munechika

Print shows Onoe Kikugorō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left.

Bandō hikosaburō

Print shows Bandō Hikosaburō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left.

Nakamura matsue

Print shows the actor Nakmura Matsue in a female role.

Ichikawa danzō no shinozuka gorō [to] sakata hangorō no omo

Print shows two actors struggling over an anchor.

Ichimura kamezo no kyo no jirō

Print shows the actor Ichimura Kamezo performing a fan dance.

Ichikawa raizō no umeōmaru to nakajima mihoemon no shihei

Ichimura uzaemon no osugi

Print shows a young woman, Osugi, holding a tobacco pipe and tray of tobacco.

Ichimura uzaemon no kidōmaru

Print shows Ichimura Uzaemon as the bandit Kidōmaru riding a hobby horse.

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Arashi hinaji no jōrurigozen

Print shows actor Arashi Hinaji in an onnagata role as the princess Jōruri Gozen, standing on a veranda, holding a lantern.

Iwai hanshirō no shirabyōshi

Print shows Iwai Hanshirō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a shirabyōshi dancer (as a woman dressed as a man).

Segawa kikunojō [to] ichikawa yaozō

Print shows the actors Segawa Kikunojo and Ichikawa Yaozo, one portraying a female role.

Yamashita kinsaku no yoshitomo no shōjin tokiwagozen

Print shows Yamashita Kinsaku II, full-length, standing, facing left, holding a long, narrow wall hanging, in the role of Tokiwa Gozen.

Ichikawa komazō no sano no genzaemon segawa kikunojō no keisei tamagik...

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Komazō as Sanno no Genzaemon holding an umbrella and walking with the courtesan Tamagiku, portrayed by the actor Segawa Kikunojō.

Segawa yūjirō to onoe tamizō

Print shows the actors Segawa Yūjirō and Onoe Tamizō, one in the role of a woman, the other a man kneeling in front of a hibachi.

Nakamura matsue no kyōmachi no oman to sawamura tanosuke no tsunewakam...

Sawamura sōjūrō no kudō suketsune [to] ichikawa danzō no soga no gorō

Yamasita kyōnosuke

Print shows Yamashita Kyōnosuke, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, looking at a poster mounted on a building showing a deer.

Sugawara no michizane

Print shows Sugawara no Michizane, an actor, sitting on a platform beneath pine and plum trees.

Segawa kikunojō

Print shows an actor portraying a woman holding an umbrella.

Nakamura kanzaburō

Print shows the actor Nakamura Kanzaburō, full-length portrait, facing right, holding fan.

Tomizawa hanzaburō

Print shows the actor Tomizawa Hanzaburō, half-length portrait framed by a fan, in the role of a female servant.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing left, standing on snow-covered veranda.

Yamashita kinsaku no senjichauri omiya

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with painting of a deer in the background.

Nakajima mihoemon

Print shows the actor Nakajima Mihoemon, half-length portrait framed by a fan, in the role of a rogue samurai.

Sanogawa ichimatsu

Print shows the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, half-length portrait, portraying a female, facing left in fan-shaped frame.

Nakajima kanzaemon

Print shows the actor Nakajima Kanzaewmon, half-length portrait, facing right in fan-shaped frame.

Ichikawa danzō

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danzō, half-length portrait, facing right in fan-shaped frame.

Onoe matsusuke

Print shows the actor Onoe Matsusuke, half-length portrait framed by a fan, facing right.

Onoe matsusuke

Print shows the actor Onoe Matsusuke standing with his right hand inside a closed parasol.

Nakamura tomijurō

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijurō portraying a woman performing a Noh dance.

Print shows Tonase holding a sword, standing behind her step-daughter Konami on a veranda as Honzō walks by, disguised as a traveling monk, wearing a beehive-shaped basket over his head and playing a recorder.

Nidaime bandō mitsugorō

Onoe tamizō

Print shows the actor Onoe Tamizō, full-length portrait, standing, facing right in an onnagata role.

Nakamura nakazō

Print shows Nakamura Nakazo, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding sword in right hand.

Ichimuraza no mae no iroko

Print shows two young men dreaming about acting at the theater.

Hako chotin o motsu nidaime ichikawa monnosuke

Yodaime ichikawa danzō

Print shows Ichikawa Danzō I, a kabuki actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding a sword over right shoulder, possibly in the role of a samurai or as Shoki the demon queller.

Nakamura kumesaburō

Print shows the actor Nakamura Kumesaburō, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a woman walking near a stream.

Yodaime iwai hanshirō

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing, portraying a female role.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke no soga no gorō

Sandaime segawa kikunojō

Print shows the actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a woman.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke no soga no gorō

Godaime ichikawa danjūrō

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with large hat and carrying a paper lantern.

Iwai hanshirō

Print shows Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing beneath umbrella, facing left.

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing right, holding a piece of cloth around his neck.

Segawa Kikunojō

Print shows the actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a geisha.

Komekitte o motsu nakamura nakazō

Print shows the actor Nakamura Nakazō, full-length, standing on the shore, facing slightly left, holding a rice coupon.

Onoe matsusuke no bikuni

Print shows Onoe Matsusuke, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing a large hat.

Sandaime sawamura sōjurō

Print shows the actor Sawamura Sōjurō III, full-length portrait, standing, facing right.

Onoe matsusuke

Nidaime yamashita kinsaku

Print shows the actor Yamashita Kinsaku II, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in an onnagata role.

Onoe matsusuke no raikō sitennō

Print shows Onoe Matsusuke, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left.

Ichikawa danjuro no kudo suketsune

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danjuro's reflection in a mirror, in the role of Kuro Suketsune.

Nidaime bandō mitsugorō no anno heibei

Print shows Bandō Mitsugorō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing right.

Shodan

Print shows a confrontation between a court official and a lesser official with his wife standing nearby, following an offense by the court official; this sets the stage, in later acts, for the lesser official'... more

Senjō no sarumawashi

Print shows two women or actors on a boat in a river.

Fūryū onna shikisanba

Print shows three women (or the male actors portraying women) in the role of the three old men who typically perform the Okin Shikisanba, a sacred ceremonial no dance.

Seki no matsugae

Print shows seven people, male and female, musicians and actors or dancers.

Saruwaka

Print shows two Saruwaka actors.

Kataoka nizaemon

Print shows actor Kataoka Nizaemon, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing ceremonial costume.

Sawamura sōjūrō [to] segawa kikunojō

Print shows actors Sawamura Sōjūrō and Segawa Kikunogō, one in the role of a woman.

Bandō Hikosaburō

Print shows the actor Bandō, Hikosaburō, full-length portrait, standing, wearing a cape, and holding with his right hand raised, a bamboo rod with a paper attached to the end.