The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro and Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715

The Actors Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho and Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715

The Actors Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho and Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro dressed as a komuso in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715

The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho (?)

The Actors Bando Aizo as the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho and Ichikawa Raizo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Satsuki Matsu Unohana Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the fourth month, 1766

Soga no Goro, Oiso no Tora, and Kewaizaka no Shosho

Tokimune (Soga no Goro) visiting his lover Kewaizaka no Shosho, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1782

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Sakai-cho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro and Ikushima Daikichi II as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748

The Actor Ichimura Kamezo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Hatsugoyomi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1745 (?)

Nakamura Theater Playbill, for the play Bandō Ichi Kotobuki Soga

The Actor Ichikawa Masuzo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Tokitsukaze Irifune Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1758

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro in the play "Soga Koyomi Biraki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month

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 actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Soga Goro and Bando Mitsugoro III as Kobayashi no Asahina

The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo II as Musashibo Benkei, Sakata Shintaro (?) as Soga no Goro, and Takigawa Kinya (?) as Soga no Juro in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776

Bando Takesaburo I as Riyaushi Takenari and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Riyaushi Hamanari

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Ageha no Chokichi Disguised as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kaido Ichi Yawaragi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1778

The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1772

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro

The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo I in a female role

「少将　竹三郎」「こも僧　団十郎」

Modern Reproduction of “Ichikawa Danjūro II"

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I and Tamazawa Rinya

The Actor Fujimura Handayu II as Oiso no Tora

「源よしつね　市川雷蔵」

A Monkey Trainer and His Monkey

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shinokobe Shoji Yukihira in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

[二世藤村半太夫]

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō as Benkei, Modern Reproduction

The Actors Tamazawa Rinya, Uemura Kohachi, and Ichikawa Monnosuke

「上むら小八」「市川門之助」「玉沢りん弥」

「風流諸芸尽」 「立ぬい」

市川団十良 (鳥居清信)

Arashi Kitsusaburō (II) as Suzuki Magoichi

Yaoya Oshichi holding a battledore paddle

Shibaraku Ichikawa Ebizo (Object); Kichirei (Object)

Beauty Playing with Cat and Kitten

「筒井吉十郎」

Cutting and Sewing (Tachinui), from the series "Collection of of Fashionable Accomplishments (Furyu shogei zukushi)"

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Tezuka no Taro Mitsumori Disguised as the Monkey Trainer Tonkichi Tochibei, in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769

Yamashita Kinsaku as a Gagaku Dancer (Yamashita Kinsaku)

Hanegawa Takakage Bando Hikosaburo (Object); Yakusha tosei kagami (Series)

「岩ふじ　市川団十郎」

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