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

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

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

Fireman seen from the back, holding the standard for district two, 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

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

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

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]

Looking expectant: the appearance of a fireman's wife of the Kaei era (1848-1854), from the series Thirty-tw...

[A man walking to the left, with a large hat resting on his back and wearing sandals, holding a short staff possibly used to propell a boat]

Looking out to Sea from the Benten Shrine at Susaki in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Susaki Benten yori kaijo o nozomu), from the series "Eastern Capital (Toto)"

Looking at Hōeizan from the 4th Camp of Mount Fuji (Omoteguchi yongōme yori Hōeizan o nozomu), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei no uchi)

[A Chinese sage sitting on a bench beneath banana trees, with attendants preparing a meal on the left]

[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]

In the Battle of Shaho, a Company of Our Right-Wing Forces Drives a Strong Enemy Force to the Left Bank of the Taitsuho (Shaka no kaisen ni waga uyokugun no ichi jūtai gankyō no teki o Taishika no sagan ni gekitsui su)

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

"To think I've missed 28 years of peace in Asia!" [old Japanese soldier found by allied army personnel, the allied soldier is holding a newspaper with the heading Nixon's Viet. peace offer ignored] / McCrae

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Omi no Kotoda (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Bamba no Chuda (left), in the Joruri "Sono Chidori Yowa no Kamisuki" (The Plovers: Combing Hair at Midnight), from Part Two of the Play O-atsurae-zome Soga no Hinagata (A Soga Pattern Dyed to Order), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Tenth Day of the Third Month, 1774

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

[Russian soldier on horseback, carrying a sword in right hand, a spear in left hand, and a rifle mounted on his chest with a string extending from the trigger to his mouth]