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

Katsushika Hokusai

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

The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers, c. 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

Carrying a lantern sponsored by the Kojimachi, from the series "The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno gosairei)", 1780

Torii Kiyonaga

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shimokōbe Shōji Yukihira and Segawa Yūjiro I as Matsukaze, Sister of Togashi no Saemon, in “Your Favorite Play: The Subscription List” (Gohiiki Kanjinchō), c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

The actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Matsushita Mikinoshin, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

The Famous Places on the Tokaido in One View (Tokaido meisho ichiran), 1818

Katsushika Hokusai

"Ka": A Court Lady Thinks Disconsolately of Her Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)", c. 1772/73

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Face in the Mirror, 1766

Suzuki Harunobu

Portrait of Mr. Tsuruzo Ishii (Test Print), 1948

Onchi Kōshirō

The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Sanshodayu (left), in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769, c. 1769

Katsukawa Shunsho

Iris and Grasshopper, from an untitled series of large flowers, c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

Shoki the Demon Queller Sharpening His Sword, c. 1725

Okumura Masanobu

Sakanoshita—No. 49, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Actor Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779, c. 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

Tsukioka of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya uchi tsukioka), from the series "Seiro bijin meika awase", c. 1801

Kitagawa Utamaro

Deep Pot, c. 2000–1000 B.C.

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan and Segawa Kikunojo I as Terute no Mae in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747, 1747

Torii Kiyonobu II

Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Wakagi, Wakaba (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke, Wakagi, Wakaba), from the series “Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day" ("Toji zensei bijin-zoroe"), 1794

Kitagawa Utamaro