The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Ito Sota

Masatsuya: Otani Oniji III as Ono Sadakuro, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Okijiro Hironari

School of Katsushika Hokusai

Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ono Sadakuro in Act Five of Kanadehon Chushingura, Naka Theater

Utagawa Sadamasu

The actors Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Goshaku Somegoro and Onoe Kikugoro III as Denkichi Tsuchizaemon (inset)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô IV as Taira no Tomomori Disguised as Tokaiya Gimpei in “Yoshitsune’s Thousand Cherry Trees” (“Yoshitsune sembon-zakura”)

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke

Katsukawa Shunshō

Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi Kurōbei in "Mirror of Naniwa: The Summer Festival"

Shunbaisai Hokuei

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Loyal Ronin

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Ichikawa Shoemon, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Katsuhei, Servant of a Princely Family, in the Play Uta Kurabe Tosei Moyo, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke

Gigadō Ashiyuki

The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunsho