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The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Ichikawa Danzô III as Shôki the Demon-Queller in “Dandyish Design: Lightning Amid Clouds” (“Date moyô kumo ni imazuma”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

A Pilgrim Praying through the Night to the Buddha (kannenbutsu) is Startled by a Ghostly Head Lying on the Snow-Covered Ground
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Kameo (right), and Sakata Sajuro I as Ario (left), in the Play Hime Komatsu Ne no Hi Asobi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Soga no Juro Sukenari (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro Kyusei Disguised as the Burglar Ipponzaemon in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kan Shojo in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Matsuo-maru in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Memorial Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Ebizô II (Danjûrô II) as a Peddler of the Medicine Uirô
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Fuwa Banazemon in the Play Date Moyo Kumo ni Inazuma, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Tenth Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro in the Joruri "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), Played as One Act in the Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi (Mastery of the Fan in Kabuki), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Seventh Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban; one sheet of pentaptych · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Nakamura Nakazô I and Ichikawa Komazô I in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Ichikawa Danzô III as Narukami in “Bird of the Capital: Komachi of the East” (“Miyakodori azuma Komachi”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban; probably one sheet of a five-sheet print · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as a Chivalrous Commoner (Otokodate)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Hotei Ichiemon in the Play Ayatsuri Kabuki Ogi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1768
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Segawa Kikunojô II as Reizei, Ichikawa Komazô I as Suruga no Hachirô, and Ichikawa Yaozô II as Tada no Kurando in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1763
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Sanada no Yoichi (?) in the Play Sanada no Yoichi Banjaku no Iezuto (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1767 (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1762
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô IV as Taira no Tomomori Disguised as Tokaiya Gimpei in “Yoshitsune’s Thousand Cherry Trees” (“Yoshitsune sembon-zakura”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1762
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Samurai Ready to Fight
Katsukawa Shunshō
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper · 1761
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Samurai Ready to Fight
Katsukawa Shunshō
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper · 1761
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (?) in the Play Bunshin Sugatami Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1765 (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1760
Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II (?)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 1760
Art Institute of Chicago