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A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Komuso Attires, in the Play Sakaicho Soga Nendaiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1771, c. 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; left sheet of shikishiban diptych, surimono.

The actor Onoe Kikugoro III as Nagoya Sanza in the play "Sato no Haru Meibutsu Amigasa," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the first month, 1827, 1827

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Hitachi in Part Two of the Play Wada Sakamori Osame no Mitsugumi (Wada's Carousal: The Last Drink With a Set of Three Cups), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Ninth Day of the Second Month, 1771, c. 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Nagoya Osan in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771/72

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition.

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as Shikishima Wakahei in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784, c. 1784

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Wakano as Oyuki in the play "Honen Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1723, 1723

Okumura Toshinobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Oshichi and Nakamura Kumetaro I as Kichisaburo in the play "Izu Kosode Shobai Kagami," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the second month, 1751, 1751

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A work made of color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the courtesan Agemaki in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsu-zakura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1776, c. 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as Matsugae Matonosuke and Ichikawa Komazo VII as Nikki Danjo in the play "Konoshita Kage Masago no Datezome," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1855, 1855

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono.

Ninnaraku, from an untitled series of No plays, 1823

Takashima Chiharu

A work made of color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono.

Soriko, from an untitled series of No plays, 1823

Takashima Chiharu

A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet.

The Michiyuki Scene from the play Ohan and Choemon (Michiyuki, Ohan Choemon), section of a sheet from the series "Reflections of Dramas in Cutouts (Harimaze joruri kagami)", 1854

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Court Lady Playing Shell Games (Kaiawase), from the series "Contest of Beauties (Bijin awase)", about 1820

Utagawa Kuninao

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Yashima, a Warrior Play, from the series "Noh Songs of Gardens (Hanazono yokyoku bantsuzuki)", about 1826

Totoya Hokkei

Lambert H. Ennis House, Evanston, Illinois: Asphalt Tile Pattern: Laundry and Play Room Area

Lambert H. Ennis House, Evanston, Illinois: Asphalt Tile Pattern: Laundry and Play Room Area, December 5, 1946

William Ferguson Deknatel

A work made of engraving on ivory laid paper.

A Veiled Woman with Two Musicians Playing a Gridiron and a Bellows, from The Masquerades, 1595-96

Jacques de Gheyn, II

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Department for Child Creativity, Where Infants can Play with Blocks and Cubes, Paris, 1977

Leonard Freed

A work made of color woodblock print.

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Iyo no Taro and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kojoro-gitsune of Okazaki in the play "Seiwa Nidai Oyose Genji," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1796, 1796

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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