Left, Liquorice Sticks, IWS. Top right, Firecracker, IWS, lower right, Flash Dance, Kawashima Textiles Manuf...

Actors Nakajima Kanzaemon [right] and Anekawa Shinshirō [left]

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Bust Portraits of Actors in Folding Fans: Ichikawa Danjuro V, Segawa Kikunojo III, Ichikawa Monnosuke II (right, top to bottom); Nakamura Nakazo I, Matsumoto Koshiro IV, Bando Mitsugoro II (left, top to bottom)

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Mimasu Daigorō IV as Tōma Saburōemon (right panel); Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Hayase Iori (left panel)

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LEFT: These pictures (top to bottom) show three successive stages of the experimental atomic bomb explosion ...

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Nakamura Utaemon III as Ishikawa Goemon (right panel), and Arashi Rikan II as Konoshita Tōkichi (left panel)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I (right), Sanogawa Ichimatsu I (center), and Sanogowa Senzo (left), from the triptych "Negura sanpukutsui"

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Jitsukawa Ensaburō I as Mukan no Tayu Atsumori (a, right panel); and Onoe Tamizio II as Kumagaya Jiro Naozane (b, left panel)

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Arashi Kichisaburō III as Saitō Kuranosuke (right panel); Onoe Tamizo (II) as Yuruki Saemon (center panel); and Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Kajizō (left panel)

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Ichikawa Ebizō V as Nippon Daemon (a, right panel); and Onoe Kikugorō III (Ōkawa Hashizō I) as the ascetic priest Nakasaina (b, left panel)

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Actors Fujikawa Hanatomo III as Onoe [right], Nakayama Bungorō II as Nakayama [center], and Bandō Shuka I as Ochiyo, Iwafuji's Servant [left]

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Arashi Rikan IV as Gentoku (right panel); Onoe Tamizō II as Kan'u (center panel); and Ichikawa Udanji V as Chōhi (left panel)

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Onoe Kikugorō III and Nakamura Shikan II (right panel); Ichikawa Ebijūrō I and Asao Kunigorō (center panel); Sawamura Kunitarō II and Ichikawa Ichizō II (left panel)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (right), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kakogawa Honzo (left), in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1771

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Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (right panel); Kataoka Ichizu I as Kakogawa Honzo (center panel); Yamashita Kinsaku IV as Konami, and Nakamura Daikichi II (?) as Ōboshi Rikiya (left panel)

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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

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The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Sumizome (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Goinosuke Yoshimine (left), in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784

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The Actors Ichikawa Somegoro (right), Segawa Kikunojo II (center), and Bando Sampachi (left), in Unidentified Roles in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

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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

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The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Chunagon Yukihira (right), 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

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The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Konoshita Hyokichi (?) (right), and Sakata Hangoro II as Matsunaga Daizen Hisahide (?) (left), in the Play Gion Sairei Shinko Ki (?), Perfomred at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1775 (?)

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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

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The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Okoma (right), and Arashi Sangoro III as the Hairdresser Obana Saizaburo (left), in the Play Koi Musume Mukashi Hachijo, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1776

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The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Otomo no Yamanushi (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as Hannya no Goro (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

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The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Kujaku no Saburo, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Hata no Daizen Taketora, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, and Nakamura Shocho I as Ki no Tsurayuki (right to left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

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