Atago Kuya, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Atago Kuya is one of the rarer plays in the Noh repertoire, named for Mount Atago northwest of Kyoto and connected with the Kuya school of itinerant nenbutsu chanting Buddhism. Plays of this type bridge the kami-mono (god-play) and the more devotional Buddhist categories of Noh, depicting religious figures and the spirits of pilgrimage sites. Tsukioka Kōgyo's print in Nōgaku Hyaku-ban (One Hundred Noh Dramas) provides one of the few widely accessible visual records of this play, exemplifying the encyclopedic ambition that drove his Noh-print project across Nōgaku Zue, Nōga Taikan, and Nōgaku Hyaku-ban. Published by Matsuki Heikichi and held by the Art Institute of Chicago, this color woodblock print is dated by the museum to the 1898-1903 phase of the Nōgaku Hyaku-ban series. The print's documentary precision in depicting costume, mask, and stage detail is characteristic of the Meiji-era Tsukioka Kōgyo style.