Artworks · Katsukawa Shunshō

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

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.2 × 14 cm (12 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Saito Sanemori in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.4 × 15 cm (11 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kusunoki Masayuki Disguised as Uji no Joetsu, in the Play Go Taiheiki Shirishi-banashi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.9 × 14 cm (12 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Baramon no Kichi in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

30.5 × 14.6 cm (12 × 5 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sumo Wrestlers of the Eastern Group: Kurateyama Yadayû and Izumigawa Rin’emon

1775 · Color woodblock print; ôban

38 × 25.3 cm (15 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Actors Ichikawa Danjôrô V as Gokuin Sen’emon, Bandô Mitsugorô I as An no Heibei, and Nakamura Sukegorô II as Kaminari Shôkurô in “A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District” (“Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga”)

1775 · Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych

30.3 × 14.8 cm (11 15/16 × 5 13/16 in.) (right), 30.4 × 15 cm (11 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.) (center), 30.9 × 15 cm (12 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.) (left)

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The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Karigane Bunshichi, Bando Mitsugoro I as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon, Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro, and Sakata Hangoro II as Hotei Ichiemon (right to left), in "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), an Interlude in Part Two of the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; pentaptych

31.3 × 14.5 cm (12 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.); 31.3 × 14.1 cm (12 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.); 31.3 × 14.5 cm (12 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.); 31.3 × 14.8 cm (12 5/16 × 5 13/16); 31.3 × 14.1 cm (12 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) (right to left)

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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

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

32.4 × 14.3 cm (12 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.); Mat: 63.5 × 40.7 cm (25 × 16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as an Ascetic Monk, in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych

28.8 × 13.9 cm (11 5/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

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The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Retired Emperor Sutoku in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

32 × 14.8 cm (12 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.)

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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of pentaptych

30.6 × 14.5 cm (12 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

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The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as the Palanquin Bearer Gohei in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition

32.6 × 15.2 cm (12 13/16 × 6 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Kongara Doji in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

31 × 14 cm (12 3/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych

31.2 × 14.7 cm (12 5/16 × 5 13/16 in.)

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The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.5 × 15 cm (12 × 5 7/8 in.)

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The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31 × 14.1 cm (12 3/16 × 5 9/16 in.)

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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kakogawa Honzo in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.2 × 14.9 cm (11 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

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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

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

33.1 × 14.7 cm (13 × 5 3/4 in.)

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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

29.4 × 13.8 cm (11 9/16 × 5 7/16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; one sheet of pentaptych

30.3 × 14.9 cm (11 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

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The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Oishi (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura (?), Performed at the Nakamora Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1780 (?)

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

29.1 × 14.6 cm (11 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

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The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Tonase in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Nagori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.3 × 14.5 cm (11 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Itsukushima Tennyo in the Kabuki Play “Tokimekuya o-Edo no hatsuyuki”

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.5 × 15.3 cm (12 3/8 × 6 in.)

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The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) (?) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1780 (?)

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.1 × 14.6 cm (12 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as an Ascetic Monk, in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.3 × 14.6 cm (12 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

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The Actor Arashi Hinasuke I as Watanabe Choshichi Tonau in the Play Tokimekuya O-Edo no Hatsuyuki (Thriving Now: The First Snow of Edo), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

1775 · Color woodblock print; chuban

26.3 × 19.5 cm (10 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Traveller Beside a Clump of Iris

1775 · color woodblock print

Sheet: 29.9 x 14.4 cm (11 3/4 x 5 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune

1775 · color woodblock print

Sheet: 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shingen in “A String of Prayer Beads Shaken at a Ribbon of Waterfall”

1775 · color woodblock print

Sheet: 33.4 x 15 cm (13 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V

1774 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

H. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm); W. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Sonobe Zaemon in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych

30.5 × 15 cm (12 × 5 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Kikusui (Kikusui Gozen) (?) in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1779 (?)

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition

32.7 × 14.6 cm (12 7/8 × -1 in.); 32.7 × 14.6 cm (12 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)

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Act Nine: Yuranosuke's House in Yamashina from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

1774 · Color woodblock print; chuban

26.3 × 19.4 cm (10 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

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Act Eight: Bridal Journey from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

1774 · Color woodblock print; chuban

26.2 × 19.5 cm (10 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

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Act Two: The House of Kakogawa Honzo from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

1774 · Color woodblock print; chuban

26.6 × 19.5 cm (10 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)

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Act Six: Yoichibei's House from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

1774 · Color woodblock print; chuban

26.5 × 19 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Street-Walker Otsuyu in the Play Cho Chidori Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30 × 14.7 cm (11 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)

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The Actor Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

30.3 × 14.4 cm (11 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo Soliciting Alms, in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga (Famous Places in Edo: A Green Soga), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

30.2 × 14 cm (11 7/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

32.9 × 15.1 cm (12 15/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in Formal Attire

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.2 × 13.4 cm (12 5/16 × 5 1/4 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Katsuhei, Servant of a Princely Family, in the Play Uta Kurabe Tosei Moyo, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition

32.8 × 15 cm (12 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Mat: 63.5 × 40.7 cm (25 × 16 in.)

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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru (?) in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Fourth Month, 1779 (?)

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.7 × 14.3 cm (12 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.)

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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

30 × 15.4 cm (11 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

31.2 × 14.7 cm (12 5/16 × 5 13/16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ko no Moronao in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

32.9 × 15.2 cm (12 15/16 × 6 in.)

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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

33.2 × 15.4 cm (13 1/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

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The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II in an Unidentified Role

1774 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

33 × 15 cm (13 × 5 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago