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

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

New Year in a Samurai Mansion, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

The Actors Ichimura Tamagashiwa I as Iwaki Hime, Murayama Heiemon III as Katsuta Jiro, and Katsuyama Matagoro as Minamoto no Yoshiie in the play "Yoroi Kurabe Oshu Kogane," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1716

Torii Kiyomasu I

Child Attendant and Bald Tengu of Mt. Kurama (Kaburo Kurama Tengu), no. 7 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

Torii Kiyonaga

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Act Nine: Yuranosuke's House in Yamashina from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shunsho

Pages from the illustrated book "Panoramic Views along the Banks of the Sumida River (Ehon Sumidagawa ryogan ichiran)"

Katsushika Hokusai