Actor Ôtani Hiroji III and (possibly) Satsuma Gengobei in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro Moyô Aoyagi Soga”) from the series Fans of the East (Azuma ôgi)

Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Ono Sadakurô in “Model for Kana Calligraphy: Treasury of the 47 Loyal Retainers” (“Kanadehon Chûshingura”)

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Arashi Hinasuke I as Watanabe Choshichi Tonau in the Play Tokimekuya O-Edo no Hatsuyuki (Thriving Now: The First Snow of Edo), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Konjin Chogoro, from the series "Atari senkin otoko kagami"

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Asahina Saburo

Utagawa Hiroshige

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX

Utagawa Kunisada III (Kunimasa IV, Toyokuni V)

The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

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

Ichikawa Danjuro Vl

Utagawa Kunimasa

The actors Ichikawa Komazo III as Akuhachiro Tokikage and Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Yushide, the sister of Rokurozaemon, in the play "Hana to Mimasu Yoshino no Miyuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1798

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Ichikawa Danjuro V

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Sakata Hangoro II, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

Ippitsusai Buncho