Chimera

Kirin (Mythical Chimera)

Freshwater Jar with Kirin (Mythical Chimera)

Kirin (Mythical Chimera) Standing on a Seal

Firepot with Kirin (Mythical Chimera) amid Flowers

Chimaerae japonum & sinarum

Japanese and Chinese chimeras

Mask (Chimera), plastic ornamental detail in the new part of St. Vitus Cathedral

Chimera of the imagination: My God! What if I am going to have a child with the head of La Poire...or even a Lobeau...a d'Argout...a Soult...a Dupin... Oh! my God!! a Kératry!!!!

Chimera of the imagination: My God! What if I am going to have a child with the head of La Poire...or even a Lobeau...a d'Argout...a Soult...a Dupin... Oh! my God!! a Kératry!!!!

Renjakumachi (Object); Kanda Gosairei (Series)

Actors Nakamura Nakazō 1st as Tenjiku Tokubei(?) and Bandō Kumajūrō as shopman Dempachi(?) in the play Keisei Katabira ga Tsuji(?), performed at the Ichimura Theater from the eighth month of 1783(?)

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō AS A SAMURAI

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Ichikawa Danjūrō IV as Aburaya Kuheiji and Onoe Kikugorō as Hiranoya Tokubei

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke AS A SAMURAI WITH DRUM

Actor as courtier

Group Singers

Yumoto, from the series "Seven Famous Hot Springs of Hakone (Hakone shichito meisho)"

Sawamura Sōjūrō II and ōtani Hiroji II

Hotei Carrying a Woman across a Stream, Modern Reproduction

「松葉屋内　粧ひ　にほひ　とめき」

Hakoneshichitoumeishoyumoto

Arashi Sangorō II as Minamoto-no-Yoritomo

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

Sawamura Gennosuke I as Miuranosuke Yoshiaki and Onoe Eizaburō I as Kazusanosuke Hirotsune

Actor Mimasu Tokujirō I

Ogiya-uchi Nanakoshi (Object); Hinagata Wakana no Hatsumoyo (Series)

Modern Reproduction of “Iwai Sagenda as a Courtesan, Sanjō Kantarō as a Wakashū, and an Unidentified Actor as a Courtesan"

Rono-zawa (Object); Hakone Shichi-yu Meisho (Series)

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Print, Woodcut, Woodblock

Arashi Otokichi as Iwanagazaemon, Onoe Monzaburō II as Chichibu Shigetada and Ichikawa Danzaburō IV as the Beautiful Courtesan Akoya

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Kamakura no Gongoro Kagemasa, in the Fifth Scene of the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori (A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778