Genre Figures

The Actors Takinaka Hidematsu I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

Torii Kiyonobu II

The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Seigen (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Shimizu Tonoinosuke Kiyoharu (left), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

A Monarch of Japan

Helen Hyde

Mother and Children in Summer Night

School of Katsushika Hokusai

Mother and Child at Dusk (Oyako yugure), from the series "Three Evening Pleasure of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Old Man and Children

Meizhi

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as an Ascetic Monk, in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Dozaburo (?) in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the First Month, 1775 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho

Section of an Illustrated Tale of Genji Poetry Contest

Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro III as Oroku and Bando Hikosaburo II as Fujitaro in the play "Shomei Muken no Kane," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1767

Torii Kiyomitsu I

Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha

Suzuki Shōnen

Bodhidharma

Unkei Eii