The brilliantly colored ukiyo-e prints in this exhibition center on many aspects of the Kabuki theatre. They depict scenes from the highly stylized dramas, images of popular actors enacting scenes that they made famous, and an introduction to the many stories of tragedy, romance, and revenge that were depicted in the Kabuki plays.

All of the prints were produced between 1820-1865 at the Utagawa School, the nineteenth century’s leading kabuki-print workshop.