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Kumagai Naozane and Atsumori at the Battle of Ichinotani
Buncho (Yanagi) |
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A musical soiree
Ehon Sakae-gusa (PIcturebook of a Prosperous Household)
Shuncho |
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Ho – Couple on a veranda
Book page from Ehon Matsu no Shirabe (Picturebook: Music of the Pines)
Choki |
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Left: Nakamura Utaemon III as Tsukumo Shinzaemon
Right: Nakamura Shikan II as the yakko Michisuke
Yoshikuni |
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Courtesan wearing a black obi
Eisen |
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Geisha with a samisen
Eisen |
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Courtesan Kashiku of the Tsuru House
Eisen |
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Left: Sawamura Tossho as Yohei
Center: Iwai Hanshiro VI as Ohaya
Right: Bando Mitsugoro IV as Jimbei
Toyokuni II |
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Miya – Torii gate overlooking the harbor
Hiroshige |
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#43 – Kuwana – The Seven-ri Ferry
Hiroshige |
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Ikegami – The grounds of Honmonji Temple
Hiroshige II |
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#10 – Children weaving
Kuniyoshi |
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#20 – Tatsugawa Sakon Katsumasa (Takigawa Sakon Kazumasu, 1525-86)
Kuniyoshi |
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Tori (cock) – (Ichikawa Danjuro VIII) as Tsunagoro
Kuniyoshi |
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Top: Settsu Province – The lovers Osome and Hisamatsu
Bottom: Iga Province – (Ichikawa Hirogoro) as Sawai Kabu Sukehei
Kuniyoshi |
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Actor as Kudo Suketsune
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Chapter 14 – Miozukushi (The Flood Gauge)
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Memorial portraits of Bando Shuka, who died 3/1855, as Yokogushi Otomi and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII, who died 8/1854, as Mukokizu Yosa
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Left: (Ichikawa Kodanji IV) as Oba Omine (inset) and (Otani Tokuji II) as Aburaya Oshika
Center: (Kataoka Gado II) as Fukuoka Mitsugi
Right: (Iwai Kumesaburo III) as Aburaya Okon (inset) and (Nakayama Ichizo) as Nakai Manno and Nakamura Aizo
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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(Kawarazaki Gonjuro) as Ariwara Narihira Ason and (Iwai Hanshiro III) as Ono no Komachi
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Left: (Sawamura Tossho II) as Okaru
Right: (Kataoka Nizaemon VIII) as Yuranosuke
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Shisen (Kawarazaki Gonjuro) as the farmer Jihizo, who is actually Naoe Yamanari
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Shikan (Nakamura Shikan IV) as Nango Rikimaru
Kunisada (Toyokuni III) |
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Left: Jitsukawa Ensaburo as Mishima Sakon
Right: Bando Hikosaburo V as Mashiba Hisayoshi
Yoshitaki |
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Women doing activities with their feet
Kunisada II |
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#742 – The filial son taking care of his younger brother and mother as well as his own son
Yoshiiku |
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Ichikawa Sadanji as Ichikawa Betto Jiro dodging a hibachi
Kunichika |
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Onoe Kikugoro V as Terashima Omatsu
Kunichika |
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People on pleasure boats enjoying the fireworks at Ryogoku
Kunichika |
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Chapter 25 – Hotaru (Fireflies)
Kunichika |
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Woman watching fireworks at Shinobazu Pond during the Ueno Park Festival
Kunichika |
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Onoe Kikugoro V as Hatakeyama Shigetada, Onoe Matsusuke IV as Soga Sukenobu, Onoe Kiku as Hakoomaru, and Bando Takematsu as Ichimaru
Kunichika |
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Tempo Rokkasen – Six Flowers of the Tempo Era (1830-44)
Six volumes of a novel
Kunichika |
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Mori Gorokuro
Yoshitoshi |
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#30 – Haso no tsuki – The moon through a crumbling window
Yoshitoshi |
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Suitable – the appearance of a geisha of the licensed quarters in the Koka Era (1844-48)
Yoshitoshi |
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Mamagoto – Children playing house
Unsigned |
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Women with musical instruments
Chikanobu |
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Goshajo hajime – The contest begins at the Imperial archery range
Chikanobu |
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Left: Ichikawa Shinzo as Suruga Jiro, Nakamura Fukusuke as Minamoto Yoshitsune and Ichikawa Gonjuro as Kamei Rokuro
Center: Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Musashibo Benkei
Right: Ichikawa Sadanji as Togashi Saemon
Kunisada III |
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Sakuma Morimasa (1554-83) attacking Hashiba Hideyoshi (1536-1598)
Nobukazu |
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Kajin warabitsumi – Beautiful women gathering ferns
Gekko |
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Chapter 28 – Nowake (The Typhoon)
Gekko |
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Anesama – Making dolls
Shuntei (Miyagawa) |
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Woman and girl collecting herbs
Terukata |
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Twilight in Imamiya Street in Choshi
Koitsu (Ishiwata) |
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Cherry blossoms in front of Fuji seen from Tateho
Tokuriki |
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Springtime evening at Otemon
Hasui |