The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Umegawa (Umegawa from the play Meido no hikyaku), 1923

Kitano Tsunetomi

Landscape with Pan Playing a Flute, 1795

Johann Christian Reinhart

Bowl with Boys Playing amid Peony Flowers, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

Two Young Women Playing Cat's Cradle, c. 1769

Isoda Koryusai

Holiday in Camp—Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball", published July 15, 1865

Winslow Homer

Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day, c. 1785

Katsukawa Shunchô

Set of Three Hanging Scrolls, Day Dream Plays (Kakemono sampukutsui utsusu no asobi), c. 1755

Nishimura Shigenaga

Nymphs Playing Musical Instruments, n.d.

Nicolas René Jollain

David Playing the Harp Before Saul, c. 1508

Lucas van Leyden

Draped Figure of Woman Playing on a Harp, c. 1873–77

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Act Five: Yamazaki Highway from the play Kanadehon Chushingura, 1807

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Youth Playing Pipes of Pan, 1800

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder

Young Man Playing the Flute Beside a Fence, c. 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

Young Woman Playing a Mandolin, Study for Portrait of Mlle. Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source", 1866/68

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as the pageboy Umezaburo and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oroku in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744, 1744

Torii Kiyomasu II

Parody of the play "Musume Dojoji", c. 1801/05

Katsushika Hokusai

Children Playing at Seine Banks, Paris, 1931

Ilse Bing

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Osan in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780, c. 1780

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

Girl Playing a Prank on a Young Man who is Napping, c. 1769

Isoda Koryusai