“The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)

“The Poet Sōjō Henjō (816–890) Slipping a Letter into a Woman’s Sleeve,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)

Ariwara no Narihira, series Fashionable Six Poetic Immortals

Ariwara no Narihara from the Series The Six Poetic Sages in Five Colors

Ariwara no Narihira, series The Six Immortal Poets

Ariwara no Narihira (Object); Shiika shashin kyo (Series)

Ariwara no Narihira (Object); Shiika shashin kyo (Series)

Ono no Komachi: Number Two (Sono ni), from the series Stylish Parodies of the Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū yatsushi rokkasen)

Ariwara Narihira, from the “Fujifusa Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals (Fujifusa-bon Sanjūrokkasen emaki)

Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825-880) from page 2B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Poet Ariwara no Narihira

Poem by Ariwara no Narihira, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

「六歌仙客彩」 「小野小町　岩井粂三郎」「喜撰法師」「在原業平」「文屋康秀」「僧正遍正」「大伴黒主」「右五役芝翫」

“The Poet Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) and Ono no Komachi,” from the series Five Colors of Love for the Six Poetic Immortals (Goshiki-zome rokkasen)

The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

「略六玉川」 「井出之山吹」

Mountain Roses of Ide (Ide no Yamabuki), from the series A Parodic Six Jewel Rivers (Yatsushi Mu-Tamagawa)

「忠臣蔵」 「五「三段目」

Washing Clothes, from the series Women's Handicrafts: Models of Dexterity

Shutendoji in Oeyama Palace

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV possibly as Tenjiku Tokubei in the play "Tenjiku Tokubei Turns the Helm toward Home (Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji)," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1768

Tiger, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"

The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Otomo no Yamanushi, and Ichikawa Danzo III as Hannya no Goro, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji

「二葉草七小町」 「清水小町」

Kiyomizu Komachi

「風流十二支」

Fude no umi shikoku no kikigaki 　　1 hen ge 筆海四国聞書 13編52巻 (存1編　下) / Ryûtei Tanehiko II aut. 柳亭種彦2世　...

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I dressed as mendicant monks (komuso)

「忠臣蔵」 「初段」

Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Tsuuzokusuikodengouketsuhyakuhachininnohitori、dokukakuryousuujun、soukokatsukaihou

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Sugawara Michizane, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1776

二代目市川高麗蔵

print

Act One: Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

The Seventh Month (Fumizuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"

「福神笑皃競」