The Actors Yamashita Mangiku and Otani Hiroji lll, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V and his attendant, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I and Azuma Tozo, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

Sugatano of Sugata Ebisuya in the Morning, Hour of the Rabbit, from the series The Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters

Kikukawa Eizan

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Twelfth Month (Harumachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (Furyu shiki no tsuki mode)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Mekari, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara

Torii Kiyonobu I

The actors Segawa Kikunojo III (R) as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sawamura Sojuro III (L) as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu

Tōshūsai Sharaku

The Sumo Wrestler Kurogumo Otozô with the Teahouse Waitress Naniwa Okita

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune (Heavenly Child—The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho