Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II (right), Iwai Hanshirō IV (center), and Onoe Matsusuke I (left)

Actors Fujikawa Hanatomo III as Onoe [right], Nakayama Bungorō II as Nakayama [center], and Bandō Shuka I as Ochiyo, Iwafuji's Servant [left]

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The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Karigane Obun, Nakayama Tomisaburo I as An no Oyasu, Iwai Kiyotaro II as Kaminari no Osha, Nakayama Tatezo I as Gokuin no Osen, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hotei no Oichi (right to left), in "Gonin Onna," Scene One of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1792

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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Possibly as Matsuya Soshichi, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

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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

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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as a Buddhist Monk in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1783

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Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Iwai Hanshirô IV, and (possibly) Iwai Karumo on a Landing Backstage

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The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okume (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Koshiba Yukienojo Disguised as the Eboshi Seller Rokusaburo (left), in the Play Katakiuchi Adana Kashiku, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1779

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The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Karigane Bunshichi, Bando Mitsugoro I as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon, Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro, and Sakata Hangoro II as Hotei Ichiemon (right to left), in "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), an Interlude in Part Two of the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1780

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The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune, Nakamura Nakazo I as Raigo Ajari, Sakata Tojuro III as Kamada Gon-no-kami Masayori, and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakon-gitsune (right to left), in the play "Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1770

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The actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as Matsugae Matonosuke and Ichikawa Komazo VII as Nikki Danjo in the play "Konoshita Kage Masago no Datezome," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1855

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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Daidoji Tabatanosuke in the Play Mukashi Mukashi Tejiro no Saru, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1792

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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Minamoto no Yorinobu in the Play Kikujido Shuen no Iwaya, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

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