[Kyōgen play with three characters, two with swords, the third lying down or feigning sleep]

[Kyōgen play with two characters]

[Kyōgen play with three characters, one wearing a large hat and a disk over his nose]

[Kyōgen play with four characters, two wear hats, one possibly portraying a woman; there is a fish with carving knife on tray in the background]

[Scenes related to the Soga family - three warriors, one with two swords and two with bow and arrows; retainers holding the reins of horses in the foreground]

[Japanese sailor, with his bare hands, is fighting with two Russian battleships (with arms, legs, and faces), a third battleship runs away]

[Three lobster soldiers, two with picks chopping up the ground and the third is standing on the wall of a fort]

[Two mice, one lying on the ground with head resting on forepaws, the other is standing on hind legs with forepaws crossed, they are looking at each other, with three round objects on the ground between, possibly rice cakes]

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as the holy hermit Narukami in the play "Narukami", performed with "Miyakodori Azuma Komachi (Bird of the Capital: Komachi of the East)" at the Morita Theater in the third month, 1768

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

[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]

[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]

[Kyōgen play with four characters, two wear hats, one possibly portraying a woman; there is a fish with carving knife on tray in the background]

[Kyōgen play with two characters]

[Kyōgen play with three characters, one wearing a large hat and a disk over his nose]

[watercolour]

「神鳴

文芸倶楽部 若武者

文芸倶楽部若武者

Kaminari, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)"

Futamigaura

Shimizu, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)"

「狐塚」

「清水」

Nunosarashimaizu

「ふあく」

「(高砂」 「尉と姥)」

[Actors performing]

[Blue blossom of morning glory on vine]

hanging scroll; painting

Print

ōkubo Hikozaemon (ōkubo Hikozaemon)

Saisoro, from an untitled series of No plays

[A man, bare-chested, sitting cross-legged with arms raised over his head, stretching or practicing yoga(?)]

Setsubun, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)"

Narihiramochi, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)"