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Related content for the article "Kabuki theatre and Bunraku puppet plays"

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  • The river festival at Tsushima shrine, a pair of 8-fold screen paintings
  • Wooden shishi mask
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  • Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Yuki ('Snow'), a colour woodblock print
  • Kawanabe Kyōsai, Female Ghost, a hanging scroll painting
  • Utagawa Toyokuni, The Kabuki actor Segawa Ronosuke as Shizuka Gozen, a hanging scroll painting
  • Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Princess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni, a triptych of colour woodblock p
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  • Torii Kiyomasu I, The actors ōtani Hiroji and Ichikawa Danzō in an 'armour-tugging' (kusazuri-biki) scene, a woodblock p
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  • Nishimura Shigenaga, The actor Sanjō Kantarō as a tea-seller, a woodblock print
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