Sumo Prints (105)

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Kakogawa Honzo in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Fifth Month, 1795

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kikuchi Hyogo Narikage in the Play Katakiuchi Chuko Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1770

c. 1770

Color woodblock print; hosoban; second-from-left sheet in a four-sheet composotion

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Yoemon and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Kasane, His Wife

c. 1771

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Sumo Wrestling

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19th century

Matted painting; ink on paper

Taira no Atsumori Returning to Shore to Confront Kumagai no Jirô Naozane

About 1770

Color woodblock print; chûban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

c. 1770

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV Performs the Triple Umbrella Dance in “Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi’s Five Characters” (“Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji”)

About 1771

Color woodblock print; hosoban

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1772

Color woodblock print

The actor Matsumoto Yonesaburo as Shinobu in the guise of the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho

1794

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Tezuka no Taro Mitsumori Disguised as the Monkey Trainer Tonkichi Tochibei, in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769

c. 1769

Color woodblock print; hosoban

The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Hagun Taro (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Izutsu no Suke Narihira (center), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kose no Kanaoka Disguised as Sogoro the Charcoal Maker, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1772

Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)

Suetsumuhana: Mukan-no-tayu Atsumori, from the series "Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)"

1855

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actors Matsumoto Hyozo as a woman holding an umbrella and Nakamura Shichisaburo I as a young boy

c. 1700

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, tan-e

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Kujaku no Saburo, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Hata no Daizen Taketora, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, and Nakamura Shocho I as Ki no Tsurayuki (right to left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1772

Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)

The actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as Ishikawa Goemon in the play "Sanmon Gosan no Kiri," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1810

1810

Color woodblock print; oban

The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Mongaku and Matsumoto Koshiro V as Fudo Myoo

c. 1829/32

Color woodblock print; vertical shikishiban diptych, surimono

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1771

Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)

The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

c. 1772

Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Munesada, Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Sumizome, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei, in the play "Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1784

1784

Color woodblock print; oban

Actors Ichikawa Danjôrô V as Gokuin Sen’emon, Bandô Mitsugorô I as An no Heibei, and Nakamura Sukegorô II as Kaminari Shôkurô in “A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District” (“Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga”)

About 1780

Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych

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

c. 1780

Color woodblock print; hosoban; pentaptych

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

c. 1781

Color woodblock print; aiban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1779

c. 1779

Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Baramon no Kichi in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

c. 1780

Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

Sumo Wrestlers of the Eastern Group: (right) Nijigadake Somaemon of Sekiwake Rank from Awa Province, and (left) Fudenoumi Kin'emon of Maegashira Rank from Kokura

c. 1782/83

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

1788

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Honcho-maru Tsunagoro (?) in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1777 (?)

c. 1777

Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Shirabyoshi Katsuragi, Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the monk Meigetsubo, and Otani Hiroji III as the monk Izayoibo, in the play "Edoganoko Musume Dojoji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1783

1783

Color woodblock print; oban

Sumo Wrestlers of the Eastern Group: Kurateyama Yadayû and Izumigawa Rin’emon

About 1780

Color woodblock print; ôban

The Sumo Wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo of the Eastern Group, with an Attendant

c. 1782/86

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1773

c. 1773

Color woodblock print; hosoban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Izutsu Onnanosuke (?) in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Ninth Month, 1775 (?)

c. 1775

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Ikuta no Atsumori, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

1898

Color woodblock print

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sagami Jiro Disguised as Ambaiyoshi Gorohachi in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

The Courtesan Ichikawa of the Matsubaya in Edo-machi Itchome, with her Child Attendants Tamamo and Mitsumo

c. 1803

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Matsuura Saemon in the Play Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774

c. 1774

Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)

Sumo Wrestlers of the Western Group: (right) Kashiwado Kandayu from Edo, (left) and Inagawa Masaemon from Osaka

c. 1784

Color woodblock print; oban

Kinugawa Tanizō in A Mirror of Brave and Loyal Wrestlers (Chūkō Sekitori Kagami)

1848

color woodblock print

Yokohama Sumo Wrestler Defeating a Foreigner

2nd month, 1861

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Standing Portrait of the Sumō Wrestler Takamiyama Daigorō

高見山大五郎立姿之図

ca. 1870–1874

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban

Lives of Sumō Wrestlers of Great Japan (Dai Nihon rikishi retsuden)

1884

Color woodblock print; ōban

Portrait of the Sumō Wrestler Aioi Matsugorō

相生松五郎之図

1869

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e) with lacquer-printed kimono detail

Sumō Wrestler Ōnaruto Nadaemon of Awa Province (Ashū Ōnaruto Nadaemon)

1860

Color woodblock print; ōban

Sumō Wrestlers Practicing

1866

Color woodblock print; ōban

Procession of Wrestlers for a Fundraising Match (Kanjin ozumo dohyo-iri no zu)

early 1850s

Color woodblock print; oban triptych