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Courtesans and Actors

Popular Culture in Edo Period Japan
September 20 - December 8, 1996

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Japanese print of a woman sitting next to pens and ink, an oval mirror, and a drawing of themselves. The figure is wearing a white robe with blue flowers throughout.

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

The daughter of Taira no Kiyomori using a mirror to draw her self-portrait to send to her mother (清盛息女の画 自像を写母に之に送図 Kiyomori sokujo no ga jizo o utsushi haha ni kore o okuru zu), Edo Period

Kitao Masanobu

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Enya Hangan in Chushingura (Enya Hangan Ichikawa Danjuro godai), Edo (Japanese period)

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as the fishmonger Gorōbei from San'ya, Edo Period

Utagawa Toyokuni

Nakamura Noshio II as a Courtesan in a Garden (nidai Nakamura Noshio), Edo (Japanese period)

Torii Kiyonaga

The beloved wife: chapter 10[man playing Sugeroku in a teahouse] (Koi nyobo judanme), Edo (Japanese period)

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)
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Katsukawa Shunzan

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

Chōbunsai Eishi

Mitsuhama of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya Mitsuhama), Edo (Japanese period)
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