Scenes from the Nakamura Kabuki Theater

A sheet from a shunga album

Flirting Lovers

A sheet from a shunga album

Standing Beauty

Behind the Screen

Courtesan with a Young Man (Wakashu) beside a Screen

Beauty Turning Her Head

A sheet from a shunga album

Dancer

Musical Party

Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints

Beauty Turning Her Head

Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Katanaya Ohana, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Standing Courtesan and Kamuro

High Ranking Courtesan

Woman holding a fan

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I

Standing courtesan wearing a kimono with plum-blossom motif

Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Wakagi, Wakaba (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke, Wakagi, Wakaba), from the series “Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day" ("Toji zensei bijin-zoroe")

The Outer Robe

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu

Nakamura Riko as Richly Clad Courtesan Standing in a Room

Iwai Kiyotaro (Edoya) as Okaru (from the series Pictures of Actors Onstage)