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The actor Sanokawa Ichimatsu as a puppeteer, holding a puppet representing the courtesan Matsuyama

Ichimura Takenojō IV as a Courtesan

The Puppeteer Bandō Kamejirō Handling a Puppet in the Role of Ofude

The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo Playing a Woman's Role

Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara

A Kaburo giving or showing an iris to a shinzo, while the courtesan looks on

The Actor Ichimura Takenojo IV as Kanaya Kingoro in the play "Ima wa Mukashi Omokage Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1737

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747

The Actors Ichimura Takenojo IV and Ogino Isaburo I as firewood peddlers in the play "Niwatori Oshu Genji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1726

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I holding a puppet of the Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

伝鳥居清重筆　朝比奈義秀図

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the courtesan Umegae in the play "Hiragana Seisuiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1764

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the courtesan Umegae in the play "Hiragana Seisuiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1764

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1772

Actor Onogawa Orie as a Courtesan Parodying the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (Fugen Bosatsu) Seated on an Elephant

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Takamura of Onoteruya (?) in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuromushi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1776 (?)

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Monkey in the Play Mitsu Ningyo Yayoi no Hinagata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1785

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga (Soga of the Long, Hanging Sleeves in the Second Month), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Second Month, 1772

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in a Female Role, Possibly Masago Gozen in the Play Keisei Azuma Kagami (A Courtesan's "Mirror of the East") (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1788

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Kisegawa in a "Nuno Sarashi" Dance, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

A SCENE ON THE YALU RIVER, SHOWING CUT OUT TIMBER. In consequence of the Russians crossing into Corean terri...

The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as the Courtesan Miyagino (?) in the Play Go Taiheiki Shiraishi-banashi (?), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780 (?)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Hitachi in Part Two of the Play Wada Sakamori Osame no Mitsugumi (Wada's Carousal: The Last Drink With a Set of Three Cups), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Ninth Day of the Second Month, 1771

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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

「もじこもそう」 「一川やつし」

「源氏」 「さかき」

The Sakaki Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Sakaki), from a series of Genji parodies

Woodblock print

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「浮世そうふきういふ」

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Shintokumaru Dancing before Oto Hime, from the illustrated book "Collection of Pictures of Beauties (Bijin e-zukushi)"

Lovers in Kyōto Playing Five-In-A-Row, series Love in Three Capitols

A group of blind Japanese men leave a house

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodcut, Woodblock, Print

Worries of a Thousand Years, series The Illustrated Lives of Women (絵本三津輪草)

碁太平記白石噺

けいせい紅葉襠

The Bamboo Flute and the Potted Tree (Shakuhachi hachi-no-ki), no. 12 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

仮名手本忠臣蔵

A Woman Nomori (Onna Nomori), no. 11 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Courtesan entertaining Daikoku and Fukurokuju, no. 10 from a series of 12 prints

Courtesan Painting a Screen, from a series of 12 erotic prints

Three Women Looking at an Ornamental Stand