Print: Sawamura Sojuro No Soga No Juro To Ichimura Takenojo No Soga No

Title: Sawamura Sojuro No Soga No Juro To Ichimura Takenojo No Soga No Goro, circa 1726 Description: Two actors, Sawamura Sojuro I (1689-1756) in a kneeling position and Ichimura Takenojo (standing), dancing with a tsuzumi.

Creator: Nishimura, Shigenaga, 1697-1756, artist Subjects: Actors--Japanese--1720-1740, Dance--Japan--1720-1740, Hand drums--Japanese--1720-1740 Collection: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915. This collection includes Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku.

Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented, but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama."