Theater Prints
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Kabuki Late Edo Era
The actor Bandō Mitsugorō IV in the play Hana to Mitsu Yuki no Shiraishi, 1834
Utagawa Kunisada I
15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Play a Board Game of the Road to Iga Pass, Act IX, 1849/1851
Utagawa Kuniteru I
9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.
Kabuki Meiji Era
Tokyo Stage
Ranking of Wages of Tokyo Actors, 1895
14 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. (each sheet)
IHL Cat. #1139
Ichimura Kakitsu IV, Sawamura Tanosuke III, Nakamura Shikan IV in Ryūkō shiritori kodomo monku, 1867
13 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (each sheet)
IHL Cat. #648
Kijutsu soroi sannin dōji
(A Gathering of Three Young Magicians), 1880
Toyohara Kunichika
13 7/8 x 28 1/2 in.
IHL Cat. #1072
The scene Kumagai Jin'ya from the play Ichinotani Futaba Gunki, 1887
Toyohara Kunichika
IHL Cat. #316
Onoe Kikugorō (V), Sawamura Gennosuke (IV) and Onoe Kikusaburō (V) in Shin Yoshiwara Ōguchi rō and Negishi bessō no ba (from the play Sanpuku Tsui Ueno no Fūkei), 1890
Toyohara Kunichika
14 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (each sheet)
Ichikawa Danjūrō, Ichikawa Kodanji and Ichikawa Sadanji I
Toyohara Kunichika
13 3/4 x 28 7/8 in.
IHL Cat. #389
Kami-no Megumi Wagō-no Torikumi,
Utagawa Kunimasa IV
14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (each sheet)
IHL Cat. #1000
Illustration of the Opening Ceremony at the Shintomiza 新富座劇場開業式ノ圖
appearing in Mokuami kyakuhonshū
Vol. 10, 1923
(woodblock or lithograph reproduction of the original frontispiece appearing in Matsu-no-sakae Chiyoda-no-shintoku 松の栄千代田の神徳 published June 5, 1878)
original artist: Utagawa Kuniaki II
(1835-1888)
7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.
IHL Cat. #1327
Nakayama Genjūrō II as Udesuke
Edo meisho awase no uchi, 1867
Toyohara Kunichika
14 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.
IHL Cat. #771
Bandō Hikosaburō V as Takegawa,
Edo meisho awase no uchi, 1867
Toyohara Kunichika
14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.
IHL Cat. #1257
The Actor Nakamura Shikan in the role of Ishikawa Goemon
from the series Twenty-four Favorites of New Civilization, 1877
Toyohara Kunichika
IHL Cat. #394
The seventh month: Suketakaya Takasuke IV from the series Famous Views for the Twelve Months, 1882
Kawanabe Kyōsai
14 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.
IHL Cat. #688
Onoe Kikugorō V as Yashio,
One Hundred Roles of Baikō, 1893
Toyohara Kunichika
14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.
IHL Cat.#2052
Onoe Kikugorō V as the Englishman Spencer, No. 71 from the series
One Hundred Roles of Baikō, 1894
Toyohara Kunichika
14 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as
in the play Fuwa from Kabuki Eighteen, 1896
Torii Kiyosada
Torii Kiyotada (Torii VII)
15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.
IHL Cat. #805
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as
Hanakawa Toagemaki no Sukeroku
in the play Sukeroku from Kabuki Eighteen, 1896
Torii Kiyosada
Torii Kiyotada (Torii VII)
14 1/2 x 10 in.
Memorial Portraits and Playbills and Misc.
Actors' New Year’s Party,
Utagawa Kunimasa IV
13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (each sheet)
IHL Cat. #1726
Osaka Stage
Kabuki Taishō and Shōwa Era
Actor Portraits
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando from the series Collection of Creative Print Portraits by Shunsen, 1928
Natori Shunsen
16 x 10 3/4 in.
IHL Cat. #75
Ritsuko in the role of Kiyoko from the magazine Shin Nigao, 1915
Yamamura Toyonari
7 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.
IHL Cat. #2162
Yanone 矢の根 (The Arrowhead) from the series Twelve Representative Kabuki Plays in Woodblock Prints
1952 (orig. 1941)
Hasegawa Sadanobu III (1881-1963) 11 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.
IHL Cat. #1315
Makeup and Misc.
Seifū Matsuda's 'Katsura' [Wigs], 1937 [illustrations and essays]
IHL Cat. #2710
Table of Contents
· The Creation of a Wig
· The Breakdown and Classification of Wigs
· Male Actor's Wigs
· Female Actor's Wigs
· Secrets of Wig-making
Magazines
Engeki Gaho,
June 1937
Cover: Yuku Sora
by Tanaka Ryō 田中良 (?-?)
Engeki Gaho,
July 1937
Cover: Kumawakamaru
by Koyama Eitatsu 小山榮達
(1880-1945)
Engeki Gaho, November 1937
Cover: Kitsunebi
by Miyake Hōhaku 三宅鳳白
(1893-1957)
Engeki Gaho, December 1937
Cover: Sage musume
by Fuse Chōshun 布施長春
(1904-1946)
Engeki Kai
May 1946
Cover: untitled
by Yamamoto Takeo 山本武夫
(act. c. 1898-1946)
Bunraku Osaka
Asashina Saburō Yoshihide in The Soga Heir
from Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu, 1922-1923
Nishimura Goun
Noh
Dōjōji, akagashira (April)
from the series Twelve Months of Noh Pictures, 1970
Matsuno Hideyo
15 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.
IHL Cat. #1885
Miidera (September), sasa-no-den from the series Twelve Months of Noh Pictures, 1970
15 1/16 x 10 1/2 in.
IHL Cat. #1883
Nōgakuzue, Momijigari,
(earliest known date of issuance
October 15, 1897)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
9 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.
IHL Cat. #1672
Nōgakuzue, Sesshōseki,
(earliest known date of issuance
January 15, 1898)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
9 1/2 x 13 7/8 in.
IHL Cat. #886
Nōgakuzue, Tankai,
(earliest known date of issuance
June 20, 1901)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
9 3/8 x 14 1/8 in.
IHL Cat. #210
Sagi 鷺
from the book Nōgaku gafu 能楽画譜,
1919-1922
Taniguchi Tōsen
backing board: 9 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.
IHL Cat. #2334
Kyōgen
Nōgakuzue, Dontarō (Kyōgen),
(earliest known date of issuance
October 15, 1897)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.
IHL Cat. #702
Nōgakuzue, Setsubun (Kyōgen),
January 28, 1898
(earliest known date of issuance
January 28, 1898)
Tsukioka Kōgyo
9 13/16 x 14 7/16 in.
IHL Cat. #1145
KYŌGEN PRINTS BY YAMAGUCHI RYŌSHŪ
(Originally published 1927-1929)
Depiction of Characters from Chikamatsu Plays
The Heroine Osan in The Almanac Maker's Tale from Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu, 1922-1923
Okada Saburōsuke
17 3/4 x 11 in.
IHL Cat. #203
The Heroine Koman from Seki in Tanba Yosaku from Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu,
Yamamura Toyonari
18 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.
IHL Cat. #183
Other Performance Forms
Rakugo
Miscellaneous
Iwato Kagura Play from the series
Picture Notes on Native Customs of Japan,
Kuroki Sadao
7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.
IHL Cat. #774