Introduction Courtesans and Actors Popular Culture in Edo Period Japan September 20 - December 8, 1996 Selected Objects Katsukawa Shunshō Nakamura Nakazo I as "The luminary and leading Rokujurokubu Pilgrim in Japan" (Nakamura Nakazo: Nihon ichi Rokujuroku bu kokin meijin), 1780.11 Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), ca. 1789 Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), ca. 1789 Ippitsusai Bunchō Ichikawa Yaozo II, ca. 1770 Chōbunsai Eishi The daughter of Taira no Kiyomori using a mirror to draw her self-portrait to send to her mother (Kiyomori sokujo no ga jizo o utsushi haha ni kore o okuru zu ), 1790's Utagawa Toyokuni Nakamura Noshio II as a Courtesan in a Garden (nidai Nakamura Noshio), ca. 1800 Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai, late 1700s Katsukawa Shunkō Onoe Matsusuke I Wringing a Cloth (Onoe Matsusuke), 1780's Attributed to Katsukawa Shunkō The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in a scene from Soga monogatari (The Revenge of the Soga Brothers) (godai Ichikawa Danj?r?Soga monogatari), late 1770's Katsukawa Shuncho Courtesan and Kamuro (Yujo to kamuro), early 1790s Kitao Masanobu The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Enya Hangan in Chushingura (Enya Hangan Ichikawa Danjuro godai), late 1770's-early 1780's Kitagawa Utamaro Left panel of the triptych Washing and Stretching Cloth (Arai-bari), ca. 1796-1797 Katsukawa Shunshō The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in a straw raincoat (godai Ichikawa Danjuro), 1770s Tōshūsai Sharaku Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as the fishmonger Gorōbei from San'ya, 1794 Chōbunsai Eishi Mitsuhama of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya Mitsuhama), 1790's Utagawa Toyokuni Sawamura Sojuro III (1753-1801) as Ume no Yoshibei (sandai (III) Sawamura Sojuro Ume no Yoshibei), ca. 1796 Torii Kiyonaga The beloved wife: chapter 10[man playing Sugeroku in a teahouse] (Koi nyobo judanme), ca. 1789 More objects +
Katsukawa Shunshō Nakamura Nakazo I as "The luminary and leading Rokujurokubu Pilgrim in Japan" (Nakamura Nakazo: Nihon ichi Rokujuroku bu kokin meijin), 1780.11
Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), ca. 1789
Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), ca. 1789
Chōbunsai Eishi The daughter of Taira no Kiyomori using a mirror to draw her self-portrait to send to her mother (Kiyomori sokujo no ga jizo o utsushi haha ni kore o okuru zu ), 1790's
Katsukawa Shunzan The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai, late 1700s
Attributed to Katsukawa Shunkō The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in a scene from Soga monogatari (The Revenge of the Soga Brothers) (godai Ichikawa Danj?r?Soga monogatari), late 1770's
Kitao Masanobu The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Enya Hangan in Chushingura (Enya Hangan Ichikawa Danjuro godai), late 1770's-early 1780's
Utagawa Toyokuni Sawamura Sojuro III (1753-1801) as Ume no Yoshibei (sandai (III) Sawamura Sojuro Ume no Yoshibei), ca. 1796
Torii Kiyonaga The beloved wife: chapter 10[man playing Sugeroku in a teahouse] (Koi nyobo judanme), ca. 1789
