The Portrait of Actors at the Ogura Cottage

The Portrait of Actors at the Ogura Cottage

Nishimura Shigenaga

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Ohatsu and Ichikawa Yaozo II as her lover Tokubei in the play "Yoni Osaka Nitsui no Meoto," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the second month, 1767

Torii Kiyomitsu I

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Murajiro as Ben no Naishi, in the shosa "Sode Furu Yuki Yoshino Shui," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1786

Torii Kiyonaga

Sawamura Sojuro III and Arashi Murajiro as Kusunoki Masatsura and Koto no Naishi

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III (right) as Ochiyo, and Bando Mitsugoro I (left) as the Greengrocer Hambei, in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Arashi Hinaji I (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II (left), as Princess Sakura (Sakura Hime) (?) and Shimizu Tonoinosuke (?), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1769 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as the Yakko Matahei (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Poem-Diviner Omatsu (left), in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II and his wife, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I and Tamazawa Rinya

Torii Kiyomasu I

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Wakano as Oyuki in the play "Honen Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1723

Okumura Toshinobu

The Autumn Shower, from "Sharing an Umbrella: A Set of Three (Aigasa sanpukutsui)"

Okumura Masanobu

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Senjiro disguised as Kichisaburo and Nakamura Tomijuro I as Oshichi in the joruri "Midaregami Yoru no Amigasa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1742

Torii Kiyomasu II