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Yamashita Kinsaku II
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1780
A Young Woman Returning a Ball to a Young Man
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770 • c. 1767
Young Man (Wakashu) with a Miniature Flower Cart
Ishikawa Toyonobu • ca. 1750–60s
The Actors Nakamura Kashiwagi as a Wakashu (second from right), and Three Unidentified Actors as Yakko
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1772
The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman in a Crouching Position
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • 1778
The Second Yamashita Kinsaku (1733–1790)
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1772
The Fourth Iwai Hanshirō as a Woman
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1779
Actors [Out of Costume] Like Mount Fuji [Without Snow] in Summer, by Ichiba Tsūshō
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1830
The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Miyagino Disguised as a Hairdresser in the Play Kosode-gura no Tekubari, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1772 (?)
The Actor Segawa Kitsuji III as Murasame in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1773
The Kabuki Role: Wife Omaki
Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833-1904) • 1855
Ohatsu bespiedt ruzie tussen hofdames
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • 1853-03
Mirror Images of Kabuki Actors
Utagawa Toyokuni I • 1804
Sawamura Tanosuke
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • third quarter 19th century
5 Playing Cards with Kabuki Rolls, Poems, Trigrams
Utagawa Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786-1864) • 1838
Evening Glow on a Traveling Drama [Chinese watching a Kabuki play]
Utagawa Yoshitora • 1st month, 1861
Hofdame Onoe zittend voor kamerscherm
Waitress Oritsu hiding a letter behind her back
Toyokuni (I), Utagawa • 1812-05
Two Dancers Performing a “Shakkyōmono” Kabuki Dance, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 3
Kubo Shunman • ca. 1805–10
Sanjo Kantaro as a Young Woman Standing in a Wisteria Arbor
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729) • c. early or mid 1730s
Kabuki Actors Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in "A Courtesan’s Mirror for the Eastern Provinces" (Keisei Azuma kagami)
Katsukawa Shunkō • 1788
Sanjo Kantaro II in the Role of Urashima Taro
Kaigetsudō Ando (Japanese, c. 1671–1743) • early 1700s
The First Nakamura Tomijuro as a Woman Dancer
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • dated October or November 1778
Young Man and Woman Talking through a Bamboo Blind
Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770 • c. 1768
The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II in the Costume of a Fashionable Young Man (Wakashu)
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90 • c. 1769
In the Style of a Young Man (Wakashu fu), Left Sheet of Triptych (Sanpukutsui hidari)
Nishimura Shigenaga Japanese, 1697 (?)-1756 • c. 1730
The Actor Nakamura Rikō, as a Courtesan with a Sword
The Third Segawa Kikunojo as an Oiran
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1776
The Actor Segawa Kikunojō as a Courtesan of the Ōmiya Brothel
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1786 (Tenmei 6)
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I in an Unidentified Role
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • early 1780s
The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as the Yakko Matahei (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Poem-Diviner Omatsu (left), in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1781
The Actor Arashi Hinaji I Dancing "Musume Dojo-ji" (The Maiden at Dojo Temple)
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi • c. 1772
Drie kabuki acteurs trekkend aan een rode banier
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • 1854-01
Concubine Mekame in snow with umbrella
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • 1830
Three Kabuki Actors Playing Hanetsuki
Utagawa Kuniyasu • ca. 1823
Lezende geliefden
Jihei, Sugimura • fourth quarter 17th century
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Female Role
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 • 1788
Kabuki Actors Arashi Ryūzō II and Segawa Kikunojō III
Katsukawa Shunkō • ca. 1790
The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry as Kabuki Actors
Utagawa Kunisada • 1835
The Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo in the Role of a Courtesan Reading a Letter
Ishikawa Toyonobu • late 1740s
Two kabuki actors in the roles of a courtesan on a water buffalo and a traveling priest
Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信 (1686-1764) • 1700s
Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) Japanese, 1786-1864 • 1852
Actors as Fujisawa Shiro, Asari Yoichi, and Hangaku, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) Japanese, 1786-1864 • c. 1851/52
Onoe Kikugorō V as Otowake Neko no ke (Right), Bandō Mitsugorō IV as Aishō Michinoku (Center), Onoe Kikugorō V as Isogai Mibunosuke (Left) in the Kabuki play Tōkai Kidan Nekomata Yashiki
Toyohara Kunichika • 1870
Iwai Hanshirō IV
Courtesan with a Young Man (Wakashu) beside a Screen
Hishikawa Moronobu • ca. 1679–84
Young Men of Fashion - A Set of Three (Wakashu sanpukutsui)
Ishikawa Toyonobu Japanese, 1711-1785 • early 1750s
The Actor Nakamura Riko as an Oiran Tying Her Obi
Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman Standing under a Maple Tree in the Autumn
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1778
The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Woman in a Black Kimono
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo Third as an Oiran
The Actor Segawa Yujiro I in an Unidentified Role
The Actors Nakamura Shichisaburo III (right), and Ichikawa Junzo I (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770
The Actor Bando Mitsugoro as a Man in Sumptuous Raiment, Standing in a Field, Mount Fuji in the Background
Silhouette Image of Kabuki Actor
Utagawa Yoshiiku • 19th century
The Ninth-Month Kabuki Dance "Kikujido"
Katsushika Hokusai • ca. 1796
Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)
Kininaga, d. ca. 1820 • 1810s
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II Dancing with a Parasol
Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792) • late 1770s
Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1780s
Kabuki Actor in a Female Role Standing with a Fan
Utagawa Kunisada • 19th century
Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugorō III as the Spirit of the Courtesan Yonakishii
Hasegawa Sadanobu • 1841
The Advent of a Demon; Scene from a Performance in an old Kabuki Theatre
Unidentified artist • 1615
Kabuki Scene at Kumagai's Camp, from the play The Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Ichinotani futaba gunki)
Utagawa Kunisada • 1811
“Act II, Scene 2: Along Train Tracks in America,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki
Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光 • 1879
Iwai Hanshirō IV as a Woman with a Sword
Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762-1819) • 1791
The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Tomijūrō I in a Female Dance Role
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • ca. 1777
The Actor Arashi Wakano as a wakashu (youth) in a kappa (raincoat)
Nishikawa Yoshinobu • ca. 1725
The Actor Sanagawa Ichimatsu 1st as a Wakashu (Fashionable Youth) in the Drama "Momo–Chidori Shiraume"
Torii Kiyonobu I • ca. 1750
The Third Azuma Tozo as a Woman in a Black Kimono
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • probably 1782
The First Nakamura Tomijuro as an Oiran Standing in a Room
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • 1771
The Actors IV Iwai Hanshiro and I Bando Mitsugoro as Women Pilgrime in a shosa (Acting and Dancing) Performance
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman Standing near a Winding Stream
The Actors Otani Tomoemon I as Emohei (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Sanada Yoichi (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770
Act Two: The House of Kakogawa Honzo from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1779/80
Kabuki Actor
Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I • ca. 1708
Utagawa Kuniteru • 19th century
Kabuki Actors: Bando Mitsugorō and Iwai Hanshirō
Utagawa Toyokuni I • ca. 1800
Segawa Senjo in the role of nurse Masaoka
Toyokuni (I), Utagawa • 1810-09
Fourteen Actors
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861) • 1840
Kabuki Play Kusazuribiki from the Tales of Soga (Soga monogatari)
Okumura Masanobu • 18th century
Kabuki Stars Before a Gracious Waterfall (Arigataki megumi no hanagata)
Toyohara Kunichika Japanese, 1835-1900 • 1883
Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō III, Onoe Matsusuke I, and Sawamura Sōjūrō III
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 • 11th month, 1786
Actors as Genroku, Otsuma, and Shokuro, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes
Man en vrouw in gevecht
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • second quarter 19th century
“Act II, Scene 5: At the Opera in Paris,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki
Vrouw met demonenmasker tussen de wolken
The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781
Young Man Playing the Flute Beside a Fence
Samurai and Wakashu
Miyagawa Isshō • early 18th century
The Young Monkey Showman (Wakashu sarumawashi)
Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国 Japanese, 1769–1825 • n.d.
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Female Role (Shizuka Gozen)
The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman Standing in a Room Having a Wave-pattern Dado
The Fourth Iwai Hanshiro as a Courtesan Dressed in a Pink Kimono
The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I in an Unidentified Role
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1788
The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1777
The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as a Thunder Goddess in the Play Onna Narukami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1770
Attributed to Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 • c. 1770
Twee kabuki acteurs
Toyokuni (I), Utagawa • fourth quarter 18th century
Mitate junishi no uchi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861) • 1852
Kabuki Actors Nakamura Gentaro and Ikushima Shingoro
Torii Kiyomasu I • ca. 1710
Oiwa holding arrows
Toyokuni (I), Utagawa • 1818-04
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Woman’s Role
Katsukawa Shunkō • ca. 1780s
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Mad Female Role
Utagawa Toyokuni I • 1798 (Kansei 9)
Hofdame Iwafuji met sandaal in haar hand
The Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō II as a Woman Reading a Letter
Torii Kiyomitsu • ca. 1760s
Acteur als vrouw trekkend aan rode doek
Kunisada (I), Utagawa • 1847
Segawa Kikunojō III as Teruha
Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792) • 1778
Actor Nakamura Senya as Tokonatsu in the Kabuki Play, "The Legacy of the Three-Comma Family Crest Revealed" (Mitsutomoe Katoku Binaki)
Torii Kiyomasu I • ca. 1716
Kabuki Actors Onoe Kikugorō III as Shizuka Gozen and Nakamura Utaemon III as Kitsune Tadanobu, in the play Yoshitsune senbon zakura (The Thousand Cherry Trees of Yoshitsune)
Gyokuryūtei (Ryūsai) Shigeharu • 1830
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