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The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Onatsu in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1781
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Shinanoya Ohan in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1781
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Lady Tomoe (Tomoe Gozen) in the Play Onna Musha Kiku no Sen'yoki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

Actor Segawa Kikunojо̄ III as a Beauty in a Summer Kimono
Katsukawa Shunjô Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo (?)
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Lady Manko (Manko Gozen) (?) in the Play Soga Musume Choja (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1784 (?)
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Hanagasa Dance in the Play Iromi-gusa Shiki no Somewake, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1781
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sukeroku in the Play Sukeroku Yukari no Edo-zakura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1782
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Osen of the Komatsuya House (?) in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1782 (?)
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke III as the Sumo Wrestler Shirafuji Genta in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro Sukenari in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1783
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1782
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Matusmto Koshiro IV as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Mizoro no Sabu in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Hanagasa Dance in the Play Iromi-gusa Shiki no Somewake, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1781
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Tenjiku Tokubei (?) (right) and Bando Kumajuro as the Shopman Dempachi (?) (left), in the Play Keisei Katabira ga Tsuji (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1783 (?)
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

Jūni-shi Daitsū-banashi
Katsukawa Shunjō 勝川春章 Japanese, 1726-1793

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792

Shoki the Demon Queller
Katsukawa Shun'ei Japanese, 1762-1819

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792