Ichikawa Danjūrō V in the Scene 'Five Chivalrous Commoners' from the Play A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day, Edo period (1615?1868), 1780, Japan, Tetraptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Overall: H. 13 in. (33 cm) ; W. 22 3/4 in. (57. 8 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726?1792), Famous actors, dressed as chivalrous commoners, stand before the entrance to the Chōjiya and O-miya houses in the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Danjūrō V is second from the right. Chivalrous commoners, who were fearless street toughs, protected ordinary people from lawless hatamoto samurai