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

Examining the Painting

Katsukawa Shuntei

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

Näyttelijä Bando Minosuke painija Akitsushima Kuniemonin ja Takakura Hayaton rooleissa

Kunisada

Hour of the Cock (Tori no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

No. 7: The Bridal Procession (Koshi-iri), from the series "The Mouses' Wedding (Nezumi no yome-iri)"

Hishikawa Sori III

An Interrupted Embrace

Sugimura Jihei

Kneeling actor and standing beauty holding a tray of clothes, from the series "Fuji in Summer Matched with Beautiful Women (Natsu no Fuji bijin awase)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Courtesans of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter, from the Series Seiro Kokon Hokku Awase

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Memorial Portraits of the Actors Otani Baju II (right) and Ichikawa Monnosuke III (left)

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Actors Fujita Hananojo and Ichikawa Danjuro II

Torii Kiyonobu I