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Kabuki Theatre and Japanese Entertainment Districts

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Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Nakamura Theater

1805 - 1815

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Nakamura Theater

1811-1814

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Nakamura Theater

1811-1814

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Ichimura Theater

1811

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Ichimura Theater

1811

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Backstage Celebrations of a Full-house Hit at the Ichimura Theater

1811

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Unidentified actor as Ujinao (male role); unidentified actor in a female role

early 19th century - mid 19th century

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

color woodblock print on paper

Unidentified actor in the role of Sakuramaru, from the kabuki play ‘Sugwara denjû tenarai kagami’; 1/3 of triptych with 1985/1.173)

late 19th century

Toyohara Kunichika

color woodblock print on paper

Unidentified actor in the role of Umeômaru, from the kabuki play ‘Sugwara denjû tenarai kagami’; 1/3 of triptych with 1985/1.172)

late 19th century

Toyohara Kunichika

color woodblock print on paper

Lineup of Five Great Kabuki Actors: Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Gon of the Treasure Knot

1867

Toyohara Kunichika

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Lineup of Five Great Kabuki Actors: Bandō Hikosaburō V as the Sound of the Golden Crane

1867

Toyohara Kunichika

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Twelve Months of Actors in Thirty-six Stages (Scenes): Second Month, Plum Blossoms in the Snow, Bandō Mitsugorō III, Iwai Hanshirō V, Sawamura Tanosuke II, and Tea Maid

1805

Utagawa Toyokuni I

woodblock print on paper

Unidentified actor with chrysanthemum crest in a female role: snow scene with year of the snake votive tablet. (New Year’s print?)

1833?

Utagawa Kunisada

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Unidentified actor as the nursemade Kosakawa Tsuneyo (?)

circa 1820 - 1830

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Iwai Tojaku in an unidentified female role (snow scene)

1832-1844

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Nakamura Shikan in an dance role (with an octopus in a basket on her head) and an unidentified actor, carrying a scythe; from a Shôsagoto [dance drama]

circa 1820 - 1844

Utagawa Kunisada

woodblock print on paper

Actors Compared with the Thirty-six Poet Immortals: Iwai Tojaku I as Tokiwa Gozen

1852

Utagawa Kunisada

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Actors Compared with the Thirty Six Poetic Immortals: Bandō Shūka I as Urazato

1852

Utagawa Kunisada

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First Snowfall on the Lovers’ Journey to His Hometown: Bandō Kōsaburō IV as Magoemon

1854

Utagawa Kunisada

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First Snowfall on the Lovers’ Journey to His Hometown: Iwai Kumesaburō III as Umegawa

1854

Utagawa Kunisada

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Perspective Print of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater Featuring the Amakawa Scene of The Treasury of Loyal Retainers

circa 1760

Torii Kiyotsune

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