Winter Scene from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Warriors Fighting in the Snow

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Minamoto no Yoritomo Hiding in a Tree

Torii Kiyoshige

Soga no Juro and Soga no Goro ambushing Suketsune, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Actors Sawamura Kijuro I as Ikazuchi Shinno, Prince of Thunder (far left), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo (second from left), Nakamura Sukegoro II as Seitaka Doji (second from right), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Kongara Doji (far right), 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

Yoshitsune and Benkei at Ataka barrier

Ran-u

Capturing the Fortress at Niuzhuang (Gyusojo senryo)

Hashimoto (Yoshu) Chikanobu

The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Seno-o Taro, Ichikawa Komazo II as Yorimasa, Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kiou Takiguchi (right to left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Mishima, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Escape of Emperor Godaigo, from the series "The Unofficial History of Japan (Nihon gaishi no uchi)"

Kobayashi Kiyochika

The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Otomo no Yamanushi (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as Hannya no Goro (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Act Three: The Quarrel Scene from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Advertisement of the drama "Haru no Akebono Kuruwa Soga," at the Ichimura Theatre

Torii Kiyomasu II