Album of Twenty Half-Length Portraits of Actors in Roles

The Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Wrestler Iwakawa Jirokichi

1837 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; vertical ōban

The Courtesan Emu of the Matsuya Brothel as a Cormorant Fisherwoman (Ukai Matsuya Emu), from the series “A Costume Parade in the Shimanouchi District” (Shimanouchi nerimono)

1836 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical ōban

Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Akogi Heiji, from the print series Tōsei keshōkagami (Makeup Mirrors of Our Time)

1835 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on a Broken Lantern, Referring to Katsushika Hokusai’s Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories)

1832 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Three Heroes of the Water Margin Capture the Bandit Queen Ichijōsei, from the series One Hundred Eight Heroes of the Theater Suikoden

1825 · Tetraptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical ōban