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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

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 Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen (left), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura (right), in the joruri "Sono Omokage Matsu ni Sakura (Vestiges of Pine and Cherry)," from part two of the play "Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga (Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Soga)," performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the second month, 1783

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

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The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as the Wet Nurse Reizei, Ichikawa Komazo I as Suruga no Hachiro in the Guise of the Shamisen Player Kichiroku (right), and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Tada no Kurando in the Guise of the Palanquin Bearer Kichinai (left), in the Scene "Kiku-zumo" (Chrysanthemum Sumo) from the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768

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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

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: Loosening the Sash in the Bedchamber), from Part Two of the Play Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage (Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1786

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: Loosening the Sash in the Bedchamber), from Part Two of the Play Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage (Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1786

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