The Actors Ichikawa Danzo and Fujimura Handayu in the Roles of Soga Goro Tokimune and Shosho

The Actors Ichikawa Danzo and Fujimura Handayu in the Roles of Soga Goro Tokimune and Shosho

The Actors Tomizawa Tatsujiroand Yamashita Matataro in the Roles of Koremochi and Watanabe Kio

The Actors Tomizawa Tatsujiroand Yamashita Matataro in the Roles of Koremochi and Watanabe Kio

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 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 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

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

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

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô IV in a Hit Role as Umezawa no Kogorobei, Real Name Shichibyôe Kagekiyo, and Ichikawa Danzô III as Fujisawa no Korokubei, Real Name Miho no Tanishirô

Women Socialists 7: Oh! You are my husband, oh! you are the master... well, I have the right to bundle you out of your home... Jeanne Derouin proved that to me yesterday evening!... go and explain yourself to her!..

The Actors Ichikawa Danzo and Fujimura Handayu in the Roles of Soga Goro Tokimune and Shosho

Shinozuka Shigehiro, Govener of Iga Province

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Soga no Juro in the play "Tsuru Kame Osana Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1721 (?)

「曽我の十郎　沢村宗十郎

Segawa Kikunojō II as Kewaizaka-no-Shōshō

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Takenojō, Modern Reproduction

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Actor Ichikawa Danzō WITH DRAWN SWORD AND CLOTH

The Actor Tomizawa Montaro I as Miyako no Mae in the play "Izu Genji Horai Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1736

The Onnagata Actor Segawa Kikunojō I as Keisei Kuzunoha in the Play ōuchi Kagami Shinoda-zuma Shinoda Shōsa )

Arashi Sangorō II as Minamoto-no-Yoritomo

Modern Reproduction of “Woman Dressed as a Monk Performing Takuhatsu"

THE COURTESAN ITSUHATA SMOKING HER PIPE

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Issun Tokubei

Osaka kudari (Object)

Modern Reproduction of “Nakamura Senya as Tokonatsu"

The Onnagata Actor Nakamura Senya I, in the role of Tokonatsu in the play, Mitsudomoe katoku biraki

Ichikawa Gennosuke as Araoka Gengo (Ichikawa Gennosuke)

Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō AND IWAI HANSHIO

An Elegant Lady

Beauty (Modern Reproduction)

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I and Dekijima Daisuke II

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Lovers Beneath an Umbrella, Modern Reproduction