Introduction

Japanese Prints of the Kabuki

September 5 - November 23, 1986

Selected Objects

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Ishikawa Danjuro III (Sandaime Ishikawa Danjuro), 1740's

Utagawa Kunisada

Ichikawa Danjuro VII in the Shibaraku Role and Another Actor as Namazu Bozu, 1820s

Nishimura Shigenaga

The actors Ichimura Takenojo as Kudo Suketsune and Sanjo Kantaro as the princess Tatsuhime in the play Hinazuru unagasu Soga performed at the Ichimura Theatre 1722.11, late 1730's

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a courtesan from the Yamaya (sandai Segawa Kikunojo: yujo no Yamaya), 1798

Utagawa Kunisada

Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Soga no Goro, possibly 1822

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The actor Nakayama Tomisaburo, ca. 1790

Torii Kiyoshige

Otani Hiroji II (Nidai Otani Hiroji), 1750s-1760s

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

Utagawa Toyokuni

Sawamura Tanosuke II as the lady-in-waiting? Takigawa (Koshimoto? Takigawa Sawamura Tanosuke), 1811

Torii Kiyomitsu I

The actor Segawa Kikunojo II playing a hand drum (nidai Segawa Kikunojo), early 1760s

Katsukawa Shunkō

Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Benten ( Osagawa tsuneyo nidai benten), 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

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as the fishmonger Gorōbei from San'ya, 1794

Torii Kiyomasu II

The actors Tamazawa Saijiro as Koto no naishi; NakamuraShichisaburo II as Yoshisada (Nitta Yoshisada); and Toshigawa…as Daito no miya (Princess Daito), late 1720s-early 1730s