List of works by Sharaku
[5] They depict actors in their rôles in the kabuki plays Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga, Katakiuchi Noriai-banashi, Koi Nyōbō Somewake Tazuna, and Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura.
Ōgishi Kurando plays a selfless, stately samurai who lends a hand, and Bunzō's retainer Sodesuke serves as comic relief.
He is present in the first scene, arriving late to meet his master Ishii Hyōei (石井 兵衛) at a shrine in Hamamatsu in Tōtōmi Province.
The print depicts the pair in the fourth act, when Tōma has fallen into such financial ruin that he takes on work as a gidayū reciter in bunraku puppet theatre.
He wears on his clothes a mon crest with the hiragana character "い" ("i") enclosed in a circle, for which Mizuemon mistakes him for a member of the Ishiis in the fifth act and attacks him at a teahouse in Gion.
In the sixth act, when the destitute Tanabe Bunzō and his wife Oshizu are unable to repay a debt to him, Kinkichi has them sell him their daughter Omitsu as a prostitute.
He was considered a versatile actor who excelled at rôles as young girls and courtesans, but who lack in social graces, for which he was given nicknames such as Iya-Tomi or Niku-Tomi (both roughly "Horrid Tomi").
[11] Katakiuchi Noriai-banashi (敵討乗合話, "A Medley of Tales of Revenge") by the playwright Sakurada Jisuke [ja] débuted at the Kiri-za in the 5th month of the 6th year of Kansei.
The play's villain Shiga Daishichi murders Matsushita Mikinoshin, whose death his daughters Miyagino and Shinobu spend years to avenge, with the help of Gorobē, a fishmonger of San'ya.
[14] ōban print of Onoe Matsusuke I as Matsushita Mikinoshin (初世尾上松助の松下造酒之進 Shosei Onoe Matsusuke no Matsushita Mikinoshin) ōban print of Ichikawa Komazō III as Shiga Daishichi (三世市川高麗蔵の志賀大七 Sansei Ichikawa Komazō no Shiga Daishichi) Jirōsaku is Miyagino's palanquin-bearer, and has transported Miyagino to the red-light district to visit his daughter, whom he has sold into prostitution.
Jirōsaku appears during the performance of the dance segment "Hana-ayame omoi no kanzashi" (花菖蒲思笄, "Iris Headdress of Remembrance") in the fourth act.
Trouble befalls the couple at the hands of those such as the wicked retainer Washizuka Happeiji, who has the manservant Edobei steal public funds from Yosaku.
Shigenoi gives birth to Yosaku's son, and he father, the Noh master Takemura Sadanoshin, takes responsibility by killing himself by seppuku.
[24] This print pairs with Nakamura Nakazō II as Saizō Saiwaka[27] and comes from the fourth part of Uruō Toshi Meika no Homare, Ōshukubai Koi no Hatsune (鴬宿梅恋初音).
[24] This print pairs with Segawa Kikunojō III as Yamato Manzai[27] and comes from the fourth part of Uruō Toshi Meika no Homare, Ōshukubai Koi no Hatsune (鴬宿梅恋初音).
Saiwaka then acts as one of the go-betweens in a love affair between Princess Konohana and Munesada before finally revealing himself as Aramaki Mimishirō before Hatano Daizen Taketora.
[29] One copy is known of the hosoban print of Nakayama Tomisaburō I as Teriha, the younger sister of Sadatō, disguised as Ohisa, the wife of Sazanami Tatsugorō (初世中山富三郎のさざ波辰五郎妻おひさ実は安倍貞任妹てりは Shosei Nakayama Tomisaburō no Sazanami Tatsugorō tsuma Ohisa jitsu wa Abe Sadatō imōto Teriha); it is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum.
[29] double check this Two copies are known of the aiban print of Ichikawa Yaozō III as Hachiman Tarō Minamoto no Yoshiie, one each in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
[29] Three copies are known of the aiban print of Nakayama Tomisaburō I as Teriha, the younger sister of Sadatō, disguised as Ohisa, the wife of Sazanami Tatsugorō (初世中山富三郎のさざ波辰五郎妻おひさ実は安倍貞任妹てりは Shosei Nakayama Tomisaburō no Sazanami Tatsugorō tsuma Ohisa jitsu wa Abe Sadatō imōto Teriha); one each are in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
[29] Two copies are known of the hosoban print of Yamashita Kinsaku II as Abe Sadatō's wife Iwate Gozen disguised as the maid Ebizō Okane (plum-tree background) (二世山下金作の仲居おかね実は安倍貞任妻岩手御前（背景に梅） Nisei Yamashita Kinsaku no nakai Okane jitsu wa Abe Sadatō tsuma Iwate Gozen (haikei ni ume)); one each are in the collections of M. Walter Anstutz and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[29] Matsu wa Misao Onna Kusunoki (松貞婦女楠, "Steadfast as the pine tree is the woman of the Kusanoki clan") débuted at the Kawarazaki-za in the 11th month of the 6th year of Gansei.
[29] Three copies known of the hosoban print of Iwai Hanshirō IV as the pilgrim O-Toma, daughter of O-Hina from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura 四世岩井半四郎の鎌倉稲村が崎のおひな娘おとま（巡礼姿） Yonsei Iwai Hanshirō Kamakura no Inamuragasaki no O-Hina musume O-Toma (junrei sugata)); one each is in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
[29] One copy is known of the hosoban print of Iwai Hanshirō IV as Kusunoki Masashige's wife Kikusui disguised as O-Hina's daughter O-Toma from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura (四世岩井半四郎の鎌倉稲村が崎のおひな娘おとま実は楠政成妻菊水 Iwai Hanshirō Kamakura no Inamuragasaki no O-Hina musume O-Toma, jitsu wa Kusunoki Masashige tsuma Kikusui); it is in the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium.
[29] Six copies are known of the hosoban print of Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as Hata Rokurōzaemon Tokiyoshi [ja] disguised as the boatman Minagawa Shin'emon of Reisengasaki in Kamakura (四世松本幸四郎の鎌倉霊仙が崎の船頭皆川新左衛門実は畑六郎左衛門時能 Yonsei Matsumoto Kōshirō IV no Kamakura Reisengasaki no sendō Minagawa Shin'emon jitsu Hata Rokurōzaemon Tokiyoshi), one each in the collections of the Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Portland Art Museum, and one each in three private collections.
[29] Edo Sunago Kichirei Soga Niban-me (江戸砂子慶書我二番目, later titled Godairiki Koi no Fūjime 五大力恋緘) débuted at the Miyako-za in the 1st month of the 7th year of Gansei.
The legend at the top gives Daidōzan's weight as 21 kan, 500 monme (about 79 kg), and his girth as 3 shaku, 9 sun (about 121 cm)—measurements considerably larger than the year before.
The story tells of the Heian-period warrior Taira no Koremichi [ja], who comes across a respectable woman and her handmaidens holding a maple leaf-viewing party.
He wears a pointed kazaori eboshi [ja] hat, sits beneath a Shintō shimenawa rope, and fishes from a waterside boulder.
[35] The printed fan measures 21.2 × 40.8 cm and depicts Otafuku throwing roasted soybeans to ward away oni demons during Setsubun, at the traditional Japanese Lunar New Year.
[39] The sensu folding hand fan of an old man (扇面老人図 Senmen rōjin zu)[35] is a nikuhitsu-ga painting on chikushi [ja] bamboo paper.
