Sarafan (Gala Costume), 18th century

Woman holding puppet of actor Onoe Kikugoro III as Gokuin Sen'emon, c. 1820s

Utagawa Kuniyasu

Woman holding puppet of actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Karigane Bunshichi, c. 1820s

Utagawa Kuniyasu

The Steps, British Museum, 1904

Joseph Pennell

Pillow Cover, 16th century

The Actor Bando Yasosuke, 1801/08

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Girl, n.d.

Perrette

The Actor Akizuki Sampei from Osaka Standing on a Galloping Horse (right), in the Play Dai Kyokuba, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

Bag, 17th century

Border, 1575/1625

Purse, 20th century

Purse, 20th century

Six Flounces, c. 1850

Fragment, 1875/1900

Two Bead Chains, 19th century

Purse, 19th century

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Yawata no Saburo (right), and Otani Tomoemon I as the Yakko Emohei (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

Bag, 18th century

Collar, 19th century

Prima Europe Tabula: Ptolemaeus Romae 1490, 1490, reprinted 1889