Arts of Asia — Page 39

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Sarutahiko, No. 2 (Sono ni) from the series "The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)"

Totoya Hokkei, 1820s

The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya House, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769/70

The Actor Yamashita Kyonosuke I in a Female Role

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Nijo no Kisaki (?) in the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1770 (?)

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1770

Meeting her Lover (parody of the Yugao chapter of "Tale of Genji")

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1766

The Courtesan Chibune of the Ebiya House, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769/70

Lovers Parting in the Morning

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1765/70

Two Women and a Child Viewing the Full Moon

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)"

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1769/70

Calligraphy, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1776/81

Crane, Bamboo and Iris

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1775

Yu Kinro (Chinese: Yu Qianlou), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)""

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1770/72

Young Man with Umbrella Knocking on Gate in Snow

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1774

Taking Leave

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1770

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I and Ichikawa Omezo I at a Teahouse

Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/1801

The actor Ichikawa Tomiemon as Inokuma Monbei

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III, Possibly as the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1785

The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II, Possibly as Misao Gozen, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1785

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Possibly as Matsuya Soshichi, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1785

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Sakura-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kakogawa Honzo, from the play "Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1780

The Actor Arashi Hinaji in an Unidentified Female Role

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Oishi (?) or Osono (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1771 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1771

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

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1789

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified role

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1776

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Kan Shojo, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Third Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1780

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1780

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Dozaburo Disguised as the Ruffian Tobei (?) in the Play Haru no Nishi Date-zome Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1790 (?)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1790