Actors as Hotei Ichiemon and Gokuin Chiemon

Haruka and Haruji of the Kadotamaya as Soga no Goro and Asaina Saburo in the armor-pulling scene, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

Isoda Koryusai

The actors Ichikawa Yaozo lll (R) as Fuwa Banzaemon and Sakata Hangoro lll (L) as Kosodate Kannonbo

Tōshūsai Sharaku

The actors Ichikawa Komazo III as Akuhachiro Tokikage and Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Yushide, the sister of Rokurozaemon, in the play "Hana to Mimasu Yoshino no Miyuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1798

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The actors Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Goshaku Somegoro and Onoe Kikugoro III as Denkichi Tsuchizaemon (inset)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Kojoro of the Mikuniya and Arashi Sanpachi I as her elder brother Kujuro in the play "Tomigaoka Koi no Yamabiraki," performed at the Kiri Theater in the first month, 1798

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

The actors Arashi Sanpachi I and Ichikawa Omezo I

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Näyttelijät Nakamura Fukusuke ja Otoji näytelmässä Kinryuzan chimoto no hatsuhana (Asakusan tuhat kirsikkapuuta kukassa)

Kunisada

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Hata Rokurozaemon Disguised as the Samurai's Manservant (Yakko) Igaguri Hanehei (left), and Nakamura Noshio I as the Lady-in-Waiting Koto no Naishi (right), in the Dance Sequence "Sodegasa Momiji no Tekuda" (Umbrella Sleeves: Coquettish Tricks at Maple Time), from the Fourth Act of the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki (The War Tale Taiheiki: With Din and Clamor of Battle), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

Ichikawa Ebijūrō II as Horiguchi Manzaemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō

Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke and Nakayama Bunshichi III as Hayashi Sanzemon from the Kabuki Play "Eight Views of the Kizu River by Boating Song"

Shunshosai Hokuchō