Scene From Act I: Ko No Moronao Offering the Lady Kaoyo a Lover Letter

Scene One from the Play Chūshingura: Kō no Moronao and Kaoyo Gozen

Act I: Lady Kaoyo Mounting the Steps at Hachiman Shrine for the Identification of Her Dead Master’s Helmet, from the series Chūshingura

Illustration of a Scene from <i>Genji Monogatari</i>

Illustration of a Scene from <i>Genji Monogatari</i>

Illustration of a Scene from <i>Genji Monogatari</i>

Mitate (parody) on the letter-reading scene from act 7 of the Kabuki play Chushingura

Parody of the Letter-Reading Scene in Act Seven from the Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chūshingura: Shichi danme) with a Cat

Act I (Shodan), from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon Chūshingura)

"Ka": A Court Lady Thinks Disconsolately of Her Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Jo and Ichimura Kichigoro as Uba in a scene from Takasago

Attack by American Indians: Act II, Scene 1 from the play Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki (Hyōryū kidan seiyō kabuki)

Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox in the Scene from the Play, Chigo Torii Tobiiri Gitsune (Nakamura Tomijuro no Hyuga no kuni Ubagatake no megitsune)

Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Bandō Hikosaburō IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa kō, Azuma Ichinojō I as Kashitsuki Sugibae (right sheet)

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Yokambei (right), Nakamura Tomijuro I as Kuzunoha (center), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Yakambei (left), in the Last Scene from the Play Shinodazuma (The Wife from Shinoda Forest), Performed as a Supplement to the Play Kikyo-zome Onna Urakata (Female Diviner in Deep Violet), at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1776

The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei Doing a Sambaso Dance (Goto Sambaso), in Act Three of the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo (Yoshitsune's Koshigoe Petition), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1790

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as a Mendicant Monk in the Joruri "Midarezaki Hana no Irogoromo" (Colorful Cloth Profusely Flowered), from Part Two of Act Six of the Play Keisei Ide no Yamabuki (Courtesan: Kerria Roses at Ide) (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Sixth Day of the Fifth Month, 1787

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Hata Rokurozaemon Disguised as the Samurai's Manservant (Yakko) Igaguri Hanehei (left), and Nakamura Noshio I as the Lady-in-Waiting Koto no Naishi (right), in the Dance Sequence "Sodegasa Momiji no Tekuda" (Umbrella Sleeves: Coquettish Tricks at Maple Time), from the Fourth Act of the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki (The War Tale Taiheiki: With Din and Clamor of Battle), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Yamaoka no Saburo in "Momiji Kumo Nishiki no Tsuri Yogi" (Maple Clouds: A Brocade of Coverlets Hung Up), Act Three of the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki (The Ever-Blooming Potted Tree), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1769

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as a Pilgrim (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu (right), in the "Silent Encounter" Scene (Dammari) from the End of Part One of the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Bandō Hikosaburō IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa kō, Azuma Ichinojō I as Kashitsuki Sugibae (right sheet), Onoe Kikujirō II as Besshitsu Fuji no kata (center sheet), unidentified actor as Koshimoto Kodemari, and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Ashikaga Jirō no kimi (left sheet)

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao, in the Shosagoto Dance Sequence "Sono Utsushi-e Matsu ni Kaede" (A Shadow-Picture of Pine and Maple), the Last Scene of Part Two of the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake (Courtesan in an Over-Kimono of Maple Leaf Pattern), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1772