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Color print of Japanese man with sword making a funny face.

The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban pentaptych.

Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River, c. 1792

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

A Courtesan Reading a Letter, 1820/25

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock prints; two sheets from an oban triptych.

In a Pleasure House in Shinagawa (Shinagawa no rojo), n.d.

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of porcelain with underglaze decoration and overglaze enamels.

Kutani-Style Sweets Tray, c. 1825

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print.

Tenno Temple, Osaka (Osaka Tennōji), from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu), 1927

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Pacific Ocean, Awa Province (Boshu Taikai), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1925

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Young Couple Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

Kobo Daishi (Kukai) as a Boy (Chigo Daishi), 15th century

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Fidelity (Shin), from the series Five Cardinal Virtues, Edo period (1615–1868), 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; o-oban, benizuri-e.

Beauty Reading a Letter, c. 1758

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A color woodblocok print of two women, the first looking at herself with two mirrors while the second women is tickling her foot with a stick from behind a screen

Tickling her foot, c. 1765/70

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo I as Miura Osuke, Ichikawa Danjuro lV as Okazaki Akushiro, and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Kato Arajiro in the play "Miura no Osuke Bumon no Kotobuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754, 1754

Torii Kiyohiro

A work made of silk and gilt-paper strip; satin weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk cords.

Kesa, Early 19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Arai: View of Ferryboats (Arai, watashibune no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Poem by Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Versions of the Six Immortal Poets (Imayo fuzoku rokkasen)", c. 1776/81

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of color woodblock print (album sheet).

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu), c. 1814

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho

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