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Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

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Actor Ichikawa Yaozō III

Actor Ichikawa Yaozō III

Woodblock print

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Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Iwai Hanshirō IV as Shigenoi in the Play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna

「郭中美人競」 「角玉屋若紫」

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Ichikawa Ebizō IV as Takemura Sadanojō in the Play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna

「魯西亜」

Russians Reading and Writing

「写真楽屋鏡」

Sawamura Tosshō II (1838–86), from the series Mirror of Photographs Backstage (Shashin gakuya kagami - Sawamura Tosshō nisei)

Jitsukurabeironominakamimiuraya komurasaki、shirai gonpachi

The Lovers Miura-ya Komurasaki and Shirai Gonpachi

「郭中美人競」 「越前屋唐土」

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The Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Ishikawa Goemon

Seirouniwaka onnageishachasenuri、kurokiuri、saimon

Three Niwaka Performers, Chasenuri, Kurokiri, and Saimon (Tea-whisk Seller, Firewood Seller, Shrine Festival Perfomer), from the “Geisha of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival” (Seiro Niwaka Onna Geisha)

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Ichikawa Danjūrō V) in the play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife (Koi nyōbō somewake tazuna)

「三代目坂田半五郎の子そだての観音坊」

Seirouniwaka onnageishanobuougiuri、uchiwauri、mugitsuki

The Niwaka Performers

Yamauba and Kintoki

The Actor Asao Gakujūrō I (previously Yūjirō I) as Mashiba Hisatsugu