Fireman seen from the back, holding the standard for district two, from the series Firemen's Standards of al...

A fireman seen from the back holding the standard for district eight, from the series Firemen's Standards of...

Frontal view of a fireman holding the standard for district seven, from the series Firemen's Standards of al...

A fireman holding a standard for district three, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Districts

A fireman, looking to the left, holding the standard for district ten, from the series Firemen's Standards o...

A seated fireman holding the standard for district five, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Di...

A fireman, looking left, holding the standard for district six, from the series Firemen's Standards of all G...

A fireman holding a standard for district one over his shoulder, from the series Firemen's Standards of all ...

A fireman carrying the standard for district nine, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Districts

A fireman throwing water over the clothes of a fireman with the standard for district four, from the series ...

[Two firemen holding the standards of their companies]

Two Ladies and a Man Seen from the Back

The Back of Fuji Seen from the Minobu River

The Back of Fuji Seen from the Minobu River (Minobugawa ura fuji)

The Back of Fuji Seen from the Minobu River (Minobugawa ura Fuji)

Mount Fuji from the Back (Tago no ura)

The Back of Mount Fuji Seen from Minobu River (Minobugawa Urafuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

GETTING BACK TO NORMAL AFTER THE TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN: TWO PICTURES FROM TOKIO

[Warrior or actor with long hair and bracelets around wrist and ankles, full-length, seen from behind, holding a sword]

Mount Bandai (or Lake Onogawa), from Set Two, Aizu District, of the series Japanese Scenery Prints (Nihon fūkei hanga)

[A man or monk seated, seen from behind, holding a short dagger(?) in right hand, while meditating or contemplating seppuku]

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: Loosening the Sash in the Bedchamber), from Part Two of the Play Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage (Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1786

[A man and a woman, seen from behind, are looking to where the man is pointing with his left arm, he holds a closed parasol in his right hand; the woman has her hands on her face, it is unclear whether she is peering into the distance or crying]

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Karigane Bunshichi, Bando Mitsugoro I as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon, Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro, and Sakata Hangoro II as Hotei Ichiemon (right to left), in "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), an Interlude in Part Two of the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1780