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  • Actor Kataoka Nizaemon as the popular hero Umeno Ichirōbei, revealing his tattooed shoulder. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • Actors in a confrontational scene, in which the villain (Ichikawa Danjūrō VII) threatens a boy with a heated poker. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.
  • Three actors in a scene from a contemporary drama. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
  • Actors in a confrontation before a gate in the rain. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • Actors as bowmen with dead geese. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • Actors Sawamura Tossho as a young warrior and Nakamura Shikou V as an older man, confronting a common foe. Colour woodcut by Kunichika.
  • Yama...ya Mimasu as the villain Nikki Danjo, holding a scroll; with a stage curtain behind. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1866.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Actors in a confrontation in a large chamber. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • Actors fighting by moonlight. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • Actor Nakamura Uzaemon killing himself on a roof as an assailant strikes at him. Colour woodcut by Yoshiiku, 1868.
  • Three figures in a palace. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • An actor as Danshichi Kurōbei at a well. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1860.
  • Actors in role: mayhem as a woman travelling in a sedan chair is attacked by women warriors. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
  • Actors Sawamura Tanosuke as a courtesan and Sawamura Tossho as her lover. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1868.
  • The actors, the Soga brothers, in a confrontation under cherry blossoms. Colour woodcut by Hirosada, early 1860s.
  • Actors in confrontation in court. Colour woodcut by Hirosada, early 1860s.
  • An actor as a princely hero by moonlight. Colour woodcut by Kuniharu, early 1860s.
  • Actors in conflict in the snow: Ichikawa Kodanji as the hero Asakura Tōgo, has thrown a ruffian assailant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • A woman tending a kettle. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoyo, early 1860s.
  • Actors in formal dress in a courtly setting: the figure of Nakamura IV wears a long, red lion wig; the boy to the left plays a drum; the man to the right holds an offering tray with a petition on it. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1850.
  • Actors in a confrontation in a garden at night. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoyo, early 1860s.
  • Two actors as a man and a courtesan under a cherry blossom. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • Actor Ichikawa Kodanji seated on bedding revealing a tattoo of a skull amid grasses on his left arm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • Actors as a kneeling old man, Chūsuke, offering a packet to a standing ruffian, Kirare Yosa. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
  • Actors in confrontation before steps. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • Two actors at a shrine: one as a footman, the other as a girl. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • Actor as the popular hero Shirai Gompachi under an umbrella. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1860.
  • Actors in a confrontation before some steps. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V as a samurai at an open-air tea house, holding a pipe with his smoking kit at his side. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni, ca. 1815.