The Shea's Kids Playing, Hazelton, North Dakota, 1985

Thomas Frederick Arndt

Bowl Depicting Costumed Ritual Performer Playing a Pan Flute, 180 BCE–500 CE

Nasca

Kaminari, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Hares Playing in Surf on a Moonlit Night, c. 1771

Isoda Koryusai

Yoshitsune (Ushiwaka) and Princess Joruri, from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)", c. 1705/06

Okumura Masanobu

Sanbaso Dance in a Brothel (Ageya sanbaso), no. 1 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Okumura Masanobu

Child Attendant and Bald Tengu of Mt. Kurama (Kaburo Kurama Tengu), no. 7 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Okumura Masanobu

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tsukimasu, Acting as Sakura-maru, in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

Act Four: Enya Hangan's Castle from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), c. 1795

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Clown Playing The Large Drum, drawing for plate three from Cirque, c. 1935

Georges Rouault

Comb Rashomon (Sashigushi Rashomon), no. 3 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716–35

Okumura Masanobu

Act Ten: The Amakawaya from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers), c. 1779/80

Katsukawa Shunsho

Actors playing the roles of Giheiji and his son-in-law, Danshichi Kurobei, c. 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Uemura Kichisaburo as the Third Princess in the play "Wakoku Gosuiden," performed at the Morita Theater in the third month, 1700

Torii Kiyonobu II

Geisha Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock, c. 1783

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Chuko Ryogoku Ori, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1790, c. 1790

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Pastoral Play, 1888

Theodore Roussel

Suminuri, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Gyokusei

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?), c. 1789

Katsukawa Shunsen

Legend of Taishi, Scene 2 (Taishiden nidanme), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)", c. 1705/06

Okumura Masanobu