Nakamura Utaemon IV as Karaki Masaemon (From the series A Tale of Valor at Iga Pass)

Mimasu Daigoro IV as Yamada Takakage (From the series A Tale of Valor at Iga Pass)

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The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Taira Shinno Masakado

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Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ono Sadakuro in Act Five of Kanadehon Chushingura, Naka Theater

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The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Hata Rokurozaemon Disguised as the Samurai's Manservant (Yakko) Igaguri Hanehei (left), and Nakamura Noshio I as the Lady-in-Waiting Koto no Naishi (right), in the Dance Sequence "Sodegasa Momiji no Tekuda" (Umbrella Sleeves: Coquettish Tricks at Maple Time), from the Fourth Act of the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki (The War Tale Taiheiki: With Din and Clamor of Battle), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

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Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonta and Bandō Shuka I as his Wife Kosen

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The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Sanshodayu (left), in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769

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The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769

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The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fisherman Fukashichi, actually Kanawa Goro Imakuni (Ryoshi Fukashichi jitsu wa Kanawa Goro Imakuni)

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The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Sakura Hime and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Priest Seigen in the play "Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami," performed at the Namakumura Theater in the first month, 1773

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Memorial Portrait of the Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV with Ichimura Takenojō V

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Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kudō Saemon Suketsune

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Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honjōmaru Tsunagorō (R) and Bandō Shuka I as Ofusa's younger sister Koito (L)

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