Courtesans and Actors

Popular Culture in Edo Period Japan

September 20 - December 8, 1996

Introduction

Selected Objects

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), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

Onoe Matsusuke I Wringing a Cloth (Onoe Matsusuke), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Nakamura Nakazo I as "The luminary and leading Rokujurokubu Pilgrim in Japan" (Nakamura Nakazo: Nihon ichi Rokujuroku bu kokin meijin), Edo Period

Katsukawa Shuncho

Courtesan and Kamuro (Yujo to kamuro), Edo (Japanese period)

Ippitsusai Bunchō

Ichikawa Yaozo II, Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Toyokuni

Sawamura Sojuro III (1753-1801) as Ume no Yoshibei (sandai (III) Sawamura Sojuro Ume no Yoshibei), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Left panel of the triptych Washing and Stretching Cloth (Arai-bari), Edo (Japanese period)

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Katsukawa Shunzan

The actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II as a woman and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as a samurai (nidai Osagawa Tsuneyo; yondai Matsumoto Koshiro), Edo (Japanese period)