Samisen posters & prints

Japanese music: women playing Koto and Samisen, Kobe, Japan Anonymous

Blind Japanese musicians M Jackson

Geisha girls, Japan Anonymous

Japanese musicians Anonymous

Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit , ca. 1780 Isoda Koryusai

Geisha Musicians Mortimer Ludington Menpes

Women of the Gay Quarters, left hand panel of a diptych Torii Kiyonaga

Two courtesans Kitagawa Utamaro

A Courtisan with a Shamisen Kikukawa Eizan

the Young Emperor Horikawa Playing a Shamisen, Sitting on Large Sheets of Text Anonymous

Geisha Standing Beside a Shamisen Case, c. 1810 Utamaro II

A Girl Playing a Shamisen, Second Half of the 17th cen Anonymous

Three Beauties, 18th century Nishikawa Sukenobu

Female Chanter for Joruri Puppet Theater, ca. 1920 Arai Kou

A Girl Playing a Shamisen, second half of the 17th century Anonymous

Seven Women Portraying the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Sitting Together with Musical Instruments (Shamisen, Koto, and Recorder), Tobacco... Anonymous

Two Female Street Musicians Wearing Kimonos, Geta, and Large Hats, and Playing Shamisens Anonymous

Three Traveling Musicians with Their Shamisens Approaching a Rest Stop Near the Futagawa Station on the Tokaido Road Anonymous

Samurai with raised sword Felice Beato

Kinokuniya Sawamura Sanj-ro III as Oboshi Yuranosuke Anonymous

Sandaime Sawamura Sojuro (No Ogishi Kurando), the Actor Sawamura Sojuro III in the Role of Ogishi Kurando Anonymous

A samurai in armour, Japan Felice Beato

Act II of Chushingura, the young samurai Rikiya, with Konami, Honzo partly hidden behind the door Kitagawa Utamaro

Sumo wrestler Sakaigawa Namiemon (to the left), with other sumo wrestlers and geishas at a party Anonymous

A samurai drinking sake Anonymous

Minami Shinagawa and Samezu Coast Utagawa Hiroshige

Samurai in Costume Anonymous

Otani Hiroji III as a Samurai Standing Beside a Stream, c. 1780 Katsukawa Shunko

Shogun Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his Samurai, c. 1840 Anonymous

Sumo Wrestler Onogawa Saisuke, 1862 Anonymous

Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794 Toshusai Sharaku

Samurai being followed by a servant Hanabusa Itcho

Japanese Print of a Samurai Possibly Kunisada

Illustration of Samurai Warrior Anonymous

Act II of Chushingura, The Young Samurai Rikiya, with Kononami, Honzo Partly Hidden Behind the Door Utamaro

Sandanme, Act three of the Chushingura Utagawa Kuniyasu