Scenes from Acts Seven and Eight of Chushingura

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Hojo Tokimune and Soga no Juro Sukenari celebrate Goro's coming of age, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

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Okumura Masanobu

Courting Komachi (Kayoi Komachi), from the series Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)

Okumura Masanobu

Six immortal poets preparing for the Tanabata festival

Katsushika Hokusai

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

Sukenari (Soga no Juro), Tokimune (Soga no Goro), and their mother at a farewell party, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

"U": Narihira Presents a Chancellor with a Model of a Pheasant, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

Watanabe no Tsuna receiving the sign post for Rashomon Gate from Minamoto no Yorimitsu

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho