Legend of Taishi, Scene 2 (Taishiden nidanme), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)"

Wada’s Banquet (Wada sakamori), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)"

Okumura Masanobu

Li Kui (Kokusenpu Riki, ichimei Ritetsugyu), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Kagero: Akushichibei Kagekiyo, from the series "Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Cao Zheng (Sotoki Sosei), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Li Kui (Kokusenpu Riki, ichimei Ritetsugyu), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Demon Shutendoji, from the album Yamato Irotake

Okumura Masanobu

Large wind-up automaton of Asahina Saburo

Utagawa Sadahide

A Poster for the Ichimura Theatre (Ichimuraza tsuji banzuke)

Torii Kiyomasu II

The Actors Arashi Ryuzo and Morita Kanya VIII

Tōshūsai Sharaku

The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Nobuyori Disguised as the Yakko Gunnai (right), and Miyazaki Hachizo as the Lay Monk Hambyo Nyudo (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Komo Yamabushi (Kyogen), from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo