Artworks

"Mu," page from "Picture Book of the Music of Pines Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe)"

Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda

Dancer with a Maple Branch

Three Komuso Monks: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Kudo Suketsune (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (center), and Ichikawa Omezo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Act Six of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (Pale Purple Soga, Edo Style), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-third Day of the First Month, 1792

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Karigane Obun, Nakayama Tomisaburo I as An no Oyasu, Iwai Kiyotaro II as Kaminari no Osha, Nakayama Tatezo I as Gokuin no Osen, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hotei no Oichi (right to left), in "Gonin Onna," Scene One of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1792

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Suketsune Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1792

A Young Man Dressed as an Actor of the Ichikawa Family (by Shunsho), a Maid and a Geisha (by Shuncho)

The Goddess Benten Holding a Biwa and a Young Man Holding a Shoulder Drum, from the series "Comparing the Smiles of the Lucky Gods (Fukujin egao kurabe)"

Yang Guifei

Seven Gods of Good Fortune in a Treasure Ship

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Osuwa in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanagaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Monther, 1789

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Renegade Monk Zenjibo Disguised as Dainichibo in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Sword Master Takuma Genryu (?) in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1789 (?)

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Makino Arataro Tokizumi in the Play Hana no O-Edo Masakado Matsuri, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1789

Plants, Porcelain Bowl, and Glass Goblet

Tanikaze Kajinosuke

The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I in an Unidentified Role

The Courtesan Yugiri and Her Lover Fujiya Izaemon, from the series "Tokiwazu Hakkei"

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga)

Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters

The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Ko no Moronao in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1786

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Kusunoki Uraminosuke Disguised as a Male Fox from Tsukamoto (?), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1786 (?)