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

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro III as Oroku and Bando Hikosaburo II as Fujitaro in the play "Shomei Muken no Kane," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1767

The actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Sagisaka Sanai

The actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Godai Saburo Chikatada

The actor Bando Hikosaburo in the role of Asahina in a Soga play

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Katakai in the play "Mugen no Kane Omoi no Akatsuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1746

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Kichisaburo in the play "Junshoku Edo Murasaki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1779

The actors Bando Hikosaburo II and Segawa Kikunojo II as komuso (beggar monks)

Ichikawa Danjūrō IV as Akushichibyōe Kagekiyo in the 1767 Production of “Kagekiyo” at the Nakamuraza Theater

The Actors Bando Hikosaburo I as Araki Shozaemon and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Daidoji Tahatanosuke in the play "Chigozakura Futabajikki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the tenth month, 1746

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Owata in the play "Taiheiki Shizunome Furisode," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Hito-maru Disguised as the Courtesan Chiyozaki, in the Play Kuruwa no Hana Katsuragi no Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third Month, 1775

Scene from Sugomori Hanachirusato (?); Segawa Kikunojō as the Courtesan Tamagiku, Ichimura ____ as a kamuro, and Bando Hikosaburo as Soga no Gorō

The actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Konjin Chogoro, from the series "One Hundred Selected Actors (Haiyu hyakkasen)"

The actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (R) as Ohan of the Shinanoya and Bando Hikosaburo III (L) as Obiya Choemon

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Taira no Tadamori Disguised as a Potted-Plant Seller in the Play Sakuya Kono Hana no Kaomise, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

The Actor Bando Matataro IV as Bando Taro in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Yoroya Takiemon in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Onoe Kikugoro IV as the courtesan Tamagiku of the Nakamanjiya Brothel, Bando Hikosaburo V as Inagi Shinnosuke, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Nakamanya Yahei

The Actor Kirishima Gizaemon as Murasaki Daijin in the play "Hatsu Akinai Omise Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1767

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Tonase in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1773

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as the Shinto Priest Goinosuke Disguised as the Spirit of a White Heron, in the Play Sakikaese Yuki no Miyoshino, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sagami Jiro Disguised as Ambaiyoshi Gorohachi in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Katanaya Hanshichi in the Play Heike Hyobanki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1789

「わたしもりの友吉　実ハ富士太郎　坂東彦三郎」

Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Yaheibyoue Munekiyo

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashiya Doman in the Play Kikyo-zome Onna Urakata, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1776

「奴伊兵衛　坂東三津五郎」

Lovers Parting by a Garden Gate

Arashi Sangorō II as Minamoto-no-Yoritomo

The Actor Otani Tomoemon I as Kasahari Hokkyo in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776

Actor Yamashita Kinsaku I as ōiso no Tora

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 Actors Ichikawa Raizo II as Kojiro Masahira (right) and Ichikawa Danzo IV as Doi no Yataro (left), in the Play Kaomise Ama no Iwato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774

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Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Suketsune's wife Naginoha, Matsumoro Yoneza I as Asahina's Sister Maizuru

The Day of Starting (Kotohajime), from the series "The Fashionable Five Days of Starting (Furyu go kotohajime)"

Actors SANJO KANTARO AND Sawamura Sōjūrō

Puppeteer, Yamamoto Koheiji (Ningyō Tsukai Yamamoto Koheiji)

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Odai, an Eboshi (Hat) Seller, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

No 12 Dai ju-ni (Object); Kaiko yashinai-gusa (Series)

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan and Segawa Kikunojō I as Terute-hime, in the play Mangetsu Oguri Yakata

Modern Reproduction of "Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in an Unidentified Role" (浮世風俗やまと錦絵)

Ichikawa Ebizō II as Yanone Gorō in the Kabuki Performance "Koizome Sumidagawa", Modern Reproduction

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「奴伊兵衛　坂東三津五郎」

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Shirabyoshi Katsuragi, Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the monk Meigetsubo, and Otani Hiroji III as the monk Izayoibo, in the play "Edoganoko Musume Dojoji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1783