The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Mitsuogiya Usukumo in the Play Shida Choja-bashira, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1781

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Hairdresser Jirokichi in the Play Shida Choja-bashira, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1781

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tonase (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1787 (?)

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

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

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tsukisayo in the Play Gohiiki Nenne Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1779

Iwai Hanshiro IV

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

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Female Fortune-teller Omatsu in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Shirai Gompachi in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Agemaki in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1771

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yae (?), in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1788 (?)

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kitsune ga Saki Otama (?) in the Play Miyakodori Yayoi no Watashi (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1787 (?)

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a Female Role

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role

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

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yaegushi no Oroku (?) in the Play Keisei Kogane no Hakarime (?), Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1792 (?)

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the courtesan Agemaki in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsu-zakura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1776

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanegaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1789

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Ohatsu

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the Courtesan Agemaki in the Play Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsu-zakura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1776

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Osuwa in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanagaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Monther, 1789

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Street-Walker Otsuyu in the Play Cho Chidori Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1779

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of Joro-gumo (Harlot Spider) Disguised as the Maiko Tsumagiku (?), in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1781 (?)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman of a Samurai Family

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Flowers at Mt. Tōei (Tōeizan hana)

The actor Sakakiyama Sangoro as Princess Odae, the daughter of the Senior Regent Michinaga

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshichi in the Play Junshoku Edo Murasaki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1779

Courtesan of the Yotsumeya House with two Kamuro And Attendant, series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves

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「青楼古今発句合」

「重の井　岩井粂三郎」

Actor Iwai Hanshirō IV

The Actor Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779

Ichikawa Ebizō as Sukeroku (Ichikawa Ebizō no Sukeroku)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Shirabyoshi Dancer in Musume Dojo-ji in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1783

Hisatsugu sawamuragennosuke

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune (Heavenly Child—The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

「曽我の十郎祐成　坂東三津五郎」

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Beaties of the Pleasure Quarters: Dotebana (Reading letters)

The actors Segawa Kikunojo III (R) as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sawamura Sojuro III (L) as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu

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