The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Sengokuya Ihei and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as his wife Omatsu in the play "Kashiwa ga Toge Kichirei no Sumo," performed at Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1755, 1755
Torii Kiyohiro
The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Soga no Juro in the play "Tsuru Kame Osana Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1721 (?), c. 1721
Torii Kiyotomo
The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (right), and Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as Yatsurugi Zaemon (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1770
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo (right), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho
Courtesan Watching Her Attendants Playing with a Ball, c. 1765/70
Suzuki Harunobu
Kishunraku, from an untitled series of No plays, 1823
Takashima Chiharu
Upon Wet Stones Playing, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1960
Declan Haun
The Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747, 1747
Torii Kiyonobu II
The Moors make a different play in the ring calling the bull with their burnous, plate six from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
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, c. 1768
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Abbot Saimyo-ji Tokiyori, Disguised as a Monk, in the Joruri "Onna Hachi no Ki" (A Female Version of "The Potted Trees") from Part Two of the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai (A Woman as Master: The World of the First Snow), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1773, c. 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho
Three Komuso Monks: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Kudo Suketsune (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (center), and Ichikawa Omezo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Act Six of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (Pale Purple Soga, Edo Style), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-third Day of the First Month, 1792, c. 1792
Katsukawa Shunsho
The actors Sawamura Sojuro II as Satsuma Gengobei and Arashi Ryuzo II as Mawashi-otoko Yasuke in the play "Edo Sunago Kichirei Soga," performed at the Miyako Theater on the first month, 1795, c. 1795
Utagawa Toyokuni I
The Actor Nakamura Juzo II as Asahara Hachiro disguised as the servant of a princely family, from the play "Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai," performed at the Morita Theater in the eleventh month, 1773, c. 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho
Munemori Visiting Chikubu Island in the play Nunobiki Monogatari (Munemori Chikubushima mode, Nunobiki Monogatari), section of a sheet from the series "Reflections of Dramas in Cutouts (Harimaze joruri kagami)", 1854
Utagawa Hiroshige
The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Seno-o Taro, Ichikawa Komazo II as Yorimasa, Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kiou Takiguchi (right to left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Momozono in the play "Katakiuchi Mogami no Inabune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the seventh month, 1759, 1759
Torii Kiyomitsu I
The Actor Kirishima Gizaemon as Murasaki Daijin in the play "Hatsu Akinai Omise Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1767, 1767
Torii Kiyomitsu I
“- Sue him.....sue him..... That would be a good trick to play on your neighbour... it would eat up all his savings, at least 100 écus.... - Yes but I would also have to eat into my savings and I really have no appetite for that....,” plate 29 from Les Gens De Justice, 1846
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Kujaku no Saburo, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Hata no Daizen Taketora, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, and Nakamura Shocho I as Ki no Tsurayuki (right to left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho