Detail of an early seventeenth century hand scroll depicting a kabuki performance by Izumo no Okuni. (Image courtesy Museum Yamato Bunkakan; unauthorized reproduction prohibited.)
"Uki-e" print by Utagawa Toyoharu showing a kabuki performance in 1769. (Image courtesy Nara Prefectural Museum of Art; unauthorized reproduction prohibited.)
A large color print of Ichikawa Danjūrō created by Utagawa Kunisada in 1812. (Image courtesy Chiba City Museum of Art; unauthorized reproduction prohibited).
The Second Version of Kabukiza. (Image courtesy Shōchiku Co., Ltd.)
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