Three Komuso Monks: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Kudo Suketsune (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (center), and Ichikawa Omezo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Act Six of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (Pale Purple Soga, Edo Style), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-third Day of the First Month, 1792

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo lll as Soga no Juro Sukenari (Sandai-me Ichikawa Yaozo no Soga no Juro Sukenari)

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Komuso Attires, in the Play Sakaicho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1792

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke AS SOGA NO JURO

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro and Ogawa Zengoro as Kudo Suketsune

Sukenari (Soga no Juro) dancing before Suketsune, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Goro Tokimune and Juro Sukenari on horseback, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Soga no Juro

The actor Ichikawa Omezo as the manservant Ippei

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari Disguised as the Proefessional Jester Senraku (?) in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1769 (?)

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro

Hojo Tokimune and Soga no Juro Sukenari celebrate Goro's coming of age, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Jitsukawa Ensaburō I as Soga Jūrō Sukenari

Jitsukawa Ensaburō I as Soga Jūrō Sukenari

Jitsukawa Ensaburō I as Soga Jūrō Sukenari

Jitsukawa Ensaburō I as Soga Jūrō Sukenari

Sukenari (Soga no Juro) and Tokimune (Soga no Goro) assasinating Suketsune, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

The Actor Ichikawa Raizo as Soga No Goro

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Soga no Juro Sukenari (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō as Soga no Gorō Tokimune

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune

Ichikawa Danjūrō as Soga Gorō

Ichikawa Yaozō as Soga Jūrō

Segawa Kikunojō III, Ichikawa Danjūrō V, ichikawa Mon’nosuke II

Women Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge

The First Day of Business (Akinai hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785

Woodblock prints

Around Meiji 2 or 3 : Imamurasaki and Morimurasaki, "Tayū" Courtesans of the Kinbei Daikoku Brothel, Dancing to Imayō Music

Touseiyuuribijinawase

「小ゆき　岩井半四郎」

Chiyo no haruto sae no saya (Chiyo no haruto sae no saya)

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Yawata no Saburo (right), and Otani Tomoemon I as the Yakko Emohei (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

「風俗東之錦」

Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okura no Kojoro-kitsune in the scene from the drama Moto Mishi Yuki Sakae Hachi-no-ki (Nidaime Bando Mitsugoro no Tennen no mansaku-kitsune, nidaime Ichikawa Monnosuke no Nikaido Shinanonosuke, yondaime Iwai Hanshiro no Okura no kojyoro-kitsune)

Odawara、hakoneheyonrihatchou

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The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Minister of the Left (center, in the carriage), Ichikawa Ebizo III as Matsuo-maru (center, kneeling on the ground), Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakura-maru (right), and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru (left), in the "Carriage Stopping" (Kuruma-biki) Scene from the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Sixteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1776

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「石神」

Nougakuzue

Nakamura Nakazō II, Nakamura Noshio II, and Ichikawa Yaozō III

No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

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Two Women in Bamboo Grove, from the series Yatsushi Tsurezuregusa

Beauties of the Three Capitals: Edo (right), Kyoto (center), and Osaka (left)

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in the Wardrobe Room of a Theater