Japanese (culture or style)

7,776 artworks

The Actor Ichikawa Shoemon, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1770

Actors Nakamura Sukegorô II as Sasano Sangobei (Left) and Ôtani Hiroji III as Satsuma Gengobei (Right) in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro moyô aoyagi Soga”)

Rantokusai Shundô, 1770

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Izutsu Onnanosuke (?) in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1775 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1770

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Odai, an Eboshi (Hat) Seller, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1770

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hannya no Goro in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

The Courtesan Mitsuhana of the Ohishiya (Ohishiya uchi Mitsuhana), from the series "Evergreen Brocades of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro tokiwa nishiki)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Chozan of the Chojiya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Two Courtesans

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

The Courtesans Chozan of the Chojiya, Hanaogi of the Ogiya, and Matsunoi of the Matsubaya

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Sato Shirobei Tadanobu (Sato Shirobei Tadanobu)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1771

Courtesan Wearing a Chrysanthemum-Patterned Kimono

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

Perspective Picture of a Kabuki Theater (Uki-e Kabuki shibai no zu)

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1771

Ukifune of the Kanaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

The Courtesan Sugawara of the Tsuruya House and Her Kamuro Namiji and Kashiko

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

Tamazusa of Iedaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Heiji (?) in the Play Hiragana Seisuiki (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1776 (?)

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, 1771

Komachi and the Stupa (Sotoba Komachi), from the series "Informal Parodies of the Seven Komachi in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro ryaku nana Komachi)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Godai Saburo Masazumi Disguised as Rokuju-rokubu in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771

Calligraphy, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Haruka and Haruji of the Kadotamaya as Soga no Goro and Asaina Saburo in the armor-pulling scene, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1771

Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, 1771

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho, 1771