Adachiga Hara, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Haku Rakuten, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

The actors Arashi Kichisaburo III as Aboshi Samojiro, Onoe Kikugoro II as Hamaji, Nakamura Kan'emon as Nurude Gobaiji, and Otani Tomoemon IV as Shokan Hikiroku

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Mutsuhana (right), Bando Mitsugoro I as Kashiwagi no Emon (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Akamatsu Mushanosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Sukenari (Soga no Juro) dancing before Suketsune, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

Daija, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Scene at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, from Act One of Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), from the series "Chushingura Juichimai-Tsuzuki (Set of Eleven Sheets Illustrating Chushingura)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

"Wa": Young Grass, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Nakamura Noshio I as Nyosan no Miya (right), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Monk Yochin (center), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as the Maid Mutsuhana (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Uzuki, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Suma no Dairyo (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Village School Scene (Terakoya), from the series "Sugawara's Secrets (Sugawara denju)"

Utagawa Sadahide