The Actors Tamazawa Rinya, Uemura Kohachi, and Ichikawa Monnosuke

The insistent lover, from an untitled series of erotic prints

Sugimura Jihei

An Interrupted Embrace

Sugimura Jihei

The actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (R) as Ohan of the Shinanoya and Bando Hikosaburo III (L) as Obiya Choemon

Tōshūsai Sharaku

The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718

Torii Kiyonobu I

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Ariwara no Narihira, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)"

Kikukawa Eizan

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), 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

Lovers, a Cat, and a Mouse in front of a Folding Screen

Sugimura Jihei

Scene at the Ishido Mansion (Ishido yakata no dan), from the series "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke as a nobleman and Dekishima Daisuke as a noblewoman

Okumura Toshinobu

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Onoe Shōroku I as the Ghost of the Shirabyōshi Hanako Standing over Osagawa Shichizō II as Tsumagi, Maid Servant to Sakurahime, in Uruō-ōgi Sumizome no Sakura

Utagawa Toyokuni I