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Top row:
Print 25 (leftmost): Character depicted: Kanpei (勘平), from the play Kanadehon Chūshingura ("The Treasury of Loyal Retainers"). Sponsor: Masada Fukumatsu (政田富久松).
Print 26 (centre-left): Character depicted: Okaru (おかる), the lover of Kanpei (勘平), from the play Kanadehon Chūshingura ("The Treasury of Loyal Retainers"). Sponsor: Kuriyama Yonejiro (栗山米二郎).
Print 27 (centre-right): Character depicted: the merchant Jihei (治兵衛), from the play Kawasho. Sponsor: Kobayashi Korin (小林好燐).
Print 28 (rightmost): Character depicted: Oshichi (お七), from an unknown play (Oshichi appeared in several different kabuki plays in this period). Sponsor: Hasegawa Giichiro (長谷川儀一郎).
Bottom row:
Print 29 (leftmost): Character depicted: the warrior Dokko no Daroku (独鈷の駄六), probably from the play Ono no Tôfû Aoyagi Suzuri. Sponsor: Masada Fukumatsu (政田富久松).
Print 30 (centre-left): Character depicted: the warrior Kumagai (熊谷), possibly from the play Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki. Sponsor: Shirai Kosetsu (白井皎雪).
Print 31 (centre-right): Character depicted: Kochiyama (河内山), possibly from the play Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana. Sponsor: Masada Fukumatsu (政田富久松).
Print 32 (rightmost): Character depicted: the samurai (Taira no) Atsumori (敦盛), possibly from the play Ichinotani Futaba Gunki. Sponsor: Minami Yoshijiro (南吉次郎).