Katsukawa Shunsho

Onoe Tamizo as a Samurai Woman

Woman in a Black Kimono

Chuban of the Chushingura Drama

Ikunojo III as Chiyosaki Striking the Chozubachi; a Shower of Gold Coin Flies

Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Suketsune, Richly Attired, Leaning on His Sword

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as Kūdo no Suketsune, and Nakamura Rikō as Oiso no Tora

The Actor Otani Hiroji I 1699–1747 in the Role of a Fish–vendor

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro I (right) 1660–1704 and Nakamura Denkuro II (left) 1719–1777 in Unidentified Roles

Scene from a Drama

The Earth Spider Slain by Brave Samurai Watanabe no Tauna (center image)

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as a Samurai

The Actor Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Ono Sadakurō

Actor Ichikawa Raizô I as Hanakawado no Sukeroku in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzō III

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II (?)

The Third Otani Hiroji as a Man Clothed Only with a Red Apron

“Two Young Women on a Verandah Watching Plovers,” from the series Stylish Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū rokkasen: Ki no Tomonori, jū)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Spirit of a Mandarin Duck (Oshidori) Disguised as Tagasode, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Kan Shōjō

The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Sukegorō II as Kaminari Shōkurō

Ichikawa Danjūrō V in the Scene "Five Chivalrous Commoners" from the Play A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role

Actor Onoe Matsusuke as Kanpei

Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda

The Third Sawamura Sojuro & the Second Ichikawa Monnosuke as Buddhist Monks

"Mu," page from "Picture Book of the Music of Pines Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe)"

Actors [Out of Costume] Like Mount Fuji [Without Snow] in Summer (Yakusha natsu no Fuji), by Ichiba Tsūshō 絵本役者夏富士

Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori)

A Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties