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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

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