Index of Favorite Actors Showing Off

(Yakusha kidori hi-iki-biiki, 役者絵)

Publisher: Maru-ya Jimpachi

c. 1840

This series shows full-length images of beautiful women with small bust portraits of kabuki actors in battledore-shaped cartouches. It is listed as number 175 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this series.

	Description: Woman looking at wind ornaments by the river Actor: Ichikawa Kyûzô Role: Asahina
	Description: Young lady looking admiringly at actor with her cat sleeping behind her Actor: Kakitsu (poetry name of Ichimura Uzaemon XII) Role: Umezawa Kogorobei
	Description: Beauty leaning on brazier Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô V Role:
	Description: Beauty under flags with the names of donors Actor: Iwai Hanshirô VII Role:
	Another state of the above design
	Description: Beauty preparing to depart Actor: Nakamura Kajaku Role:
	Description: A homely servant taking orders from her beautiful mistress Actors: Ichikawa Hakuen (top) and Onoe Eizaburô III Roles:
	Description: Beauty surrounded by hanging calligraphy Actor: Ichikawa Hakuen Role: 見立祐経 (untranslated)
	Description: Standing woman looking through a screen door at a heavyset woman relaxing and drinking sake Actors: Roles:

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