• Actor Nakamura Utaemon III in one of his great stage hits. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni, ca. 1812.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825.

  Date

  [1812?]

  Reference

  35369i

  • Pictures

• An actor as Kumago Naozane before a station on Tokaidō highway. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  Month 5, 1852

  Reference

  36011i

  • Pictures

• Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Danjūrō) as a Buddhist abbot holding a fan in the snow. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1858

  Reference

  35957i

  • Pictures

• Actors miming; smaller figures illustrate a mime sequence. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1875 (?).

  • Chikashige (Otagawa Chikashige), active approximately 1880.

  Date

  [1875?]

  Reference

  34913i

  • Pictures

• Two men under a cherry blossom. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.

  • Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.

  Date

  [early 1860s]

  Reference

  35564i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• Actor Sawamura Tossho as a page restraining a horse. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, late 1860's.

  • Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.

  Date

  [late 1860's]

  Reference

  35320i

  • Pictures

• Iwai Shijaku and Ichikawa Kyūzō on their way to a temple in the environs of Edo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1830s.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  [between 1830 and 1839]

  Reference

  35649i

  • Pictures

• An enactment of a court scene: five actor musicians perform before a dais on which actors as an emperor and empress are seated. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1851.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1847/1851

  Reference

  35869i

  • Pictures

• Actor Segawa Kikunojō V as a young lover pulling on a woman's sash. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1828.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  [1828?]

  Reference

  35923i

  • Pictures

• An actor in the role of Asa Kura Tōgo, clutching a pillar supporting a porch and looking up. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1861.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  Month 10, 1861

  Reference

  36726i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• An actor as a hero with his gut torn open. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.

  • Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.

  Date

  [early 1860s]

  Reference

  35472i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• Actor Bandō Mitsugorō III as a samurai in a sword fight during a snow storm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1824.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  [1824?]

  Reference

  35926i

  • Pictures

• Actors as a courtier and a court-lady. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  Month 10, 1858

  Reference

  36023i

  • Pictures

• Actors as guests at an inn looking into the central courtyard, where a female role actor plays a low-ranking courtesan. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1866.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.

  Date

  1866

  Reference

  35666i

  • Pictures

• A female role actor with strong male features, holding prayer beads. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1852.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1852

  Reference

  36679i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• Comparisons of various actors in the role of the sorcerer Nikki Danjō. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1868.

  • Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.

  Date

  Month 7, 1868

  Reference

  35223i

  • Pictures

• Actors as women and three children at a window looking out over a snowy landscape. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1851.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1851

  Reference

  36000i

  • Pictures

• Actor as a fisherman striking a defiant pose in a throne room; a princess looks down on him from an inset roundel. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1852

  Reference

  35987i

  • Pictures

• Segawa Kikunōjō as Ohatsu, striking at the enemy with practised sword use in Kendō; his sleeves are tied up. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni I, early 1820s.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825.

  Date

  [early 1820s]

  Reference

  35631i

  • Pictures

• Actors in a confrontation by a river from a contemporary drama. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.

  Date

  Month 7, 1857

  Reference

  36040i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• Three figures in a palace. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.

  • Kunikazu, Utagawa Kunikazu, active 1848-1868.

  Date

  [early 1860s]

  Reference

  35560i

  • Pictures
  • Online

  

• Fragments of two leaves of a triptych. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1865.

  • Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.

  Date

  1865

  Reference

  35322i

  • Pictures

• Three actors by the sea-shore; three cranes flying above. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1852.

  • Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865.

  Date

  1847/1852

  Reference

  35920i

  • Pictures

• Two actors, Sawamura Tosshō and Nakamura Shikou, in court dress in a violent confrontation: a third actor, Iwai Shijaku, wears a female robe and looks down from a roundel. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1870.

  • Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.

  Date

  Month 6, 1870

  Reference

  35240i

  • Pictures

• Actors in scenes from the play 'A treasury of loyal retainers' by Chushingura. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1856.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.

  Date

  Month 11, 1856

  Reference

  36044i

  • Pictures
  • Online