Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.

This diptych shows the ghost of Asakura Tōgo 朝倉當吾 returning to haunt the man responsible for his death, the corrupt governor Orikoshi Tairyō 織越大領. A kappa (a traditional folk monster) tumbles comically at Orikoshi’s feet.

This diptych shows the kabuki actors, Iwai Hanshirō V 五代目 岩井半四郎 as Hanaregoma Chōkichi 放駒長吉 (left) and Nakamura Daikichi 中村大吉 as Nuregami Chōgorō 濡髪長五郎 (right) dueling amongst straw bales of rice.

This shini-e (death print) commemorates the deaths of three kabuki actors: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII (right), who committed suicide in 1854, and Arashi Otohachi III (center) and Bandō Shūka I (left) who both died in 1855.