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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III in one of his great stage hits. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni, ca. 1812.
Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825.Date: [1812?]Reference: 35369i- Pictures
An actor as Kumago Naozane before a station on Tokaidō highway. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 5, 1852Reference: 36011i
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Actors Sawamura Tossho as a young warrior and Nakamura Shikou V as an older man, confronting a common foe. Colour woodcut by Kunichika.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Reference: 35211i- Pictures
Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Danjūrō) as a Buddhist abbot holding a fan in the snow. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1858Reference: 35957i- Pictures
Actors miming; smaller figures illustrate a mime sequence. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1875 (?).
Chikashige (Otagawa Chikashige), active approximately 1880.Date: [1875?]Reference: 34913i
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Two men under a cherry blossom. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.Date: [early 1860s]Reference: 35564i- Pictures
Actor Sawamura Tossho as a page restraining a horse. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, late 1860's.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Date: [late 1860's]Reference: 35320i- Pictures
Iwai Shijaku and Ichikawa Kyūzō on their way to a temple in the environs of Edo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1830s.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 35649i- Pictures
An enactment of a court scene: five actor musicians perform before a dais on which actors as an emperor and empress are seated. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1851.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1847/1851Reference: 35869i- Pictures
Actor Segawa Kikunojō V as a young lover pulling on a woman's sash. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1828.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: [1828?]Reference: 35923i
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An actor in the role of Asa Kura Tōgo, clutching a pillar supporting a porch and looking up. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1861.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 10, 1861Reference: 36726i
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An actor as a hero with his gut torn open. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.Date: [early 1860s]Reference: 35472i- Pictures
Actor Bandō Mitsugorō III as a samurai in a sword fight during a snow storm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1824.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: [1824?]Reference: 35926i- Pictures
Actors as a courtier and a court-lady. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 10, 1858Reference: 36023i- Pictures
Actors as guests at an inn looking into the central courtyard, where a female role actor plays a low-ranking courtesan. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1866.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1866Reference: 35666i
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A female role actor with strong male features, holding prayer beads. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1852.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1852Reference: 36679i- Pictures
Comparisons of various actors in the role of the sorcerer Nikki Danjō. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1868.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Date: Month 7, 1868Reference: 35223i- Pictures
Actors as women and three children at a window looking out over a snowy landscape. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1851.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1851Reference: 36000i- Pictures
Actor as a fisherman striking a defiant pose in a throne room; a princess looks down on him from an inset roundel. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1852Reference: 35987i- Pictures
Segawa Kikunōjō as Ohatsu, striking at the enemy with practised sword use in Kendō; his sleeves are tied up. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni I, early 1820s.
Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825.Date: [early 1820s]Reference: 35631i
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Actors in a confrontation by a river from a contemporary drama. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: Month 7, 1857Reference: 36040i
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Three figures in a palace. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.Date: [early 1860s]Reference: 35560i- Pictures
Fragments of two leaves of a triptych. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1865.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Date: 1865Reference: 35322i- Pictures
Three actors by the sea-shore; three cranes flying above. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1852.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1847/1852Reference: 35920i- Pictures
Two actors, Sawamura Tosshō and Nakamura Shikou, in court dress in a violent confrontation: a third actor, Iwai Shijaku, wears a female robe and looks down from a roundel. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1870.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Date: Month 6, 1870Reference: 35240i