The actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Matsushita Mikinoshin, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

"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

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

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

Onchi Kōshirō

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.

No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)", c. 1791

Torii Kiyonaga

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

The Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Oshichi and Sanjo Kantaro II as Kichisaburo in the play "Shochikubai Kongen Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1732, 1732

Nishimura Shigenobu

"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)", c. 1772/73

Katsukawa Shunsho

Returning Sails of the Towel Rack (Tenugui-kake no kihan), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)", c. 1766

Suzuki Harunobu

Waka Onna (Young Woman) Noh mask, 2013

Bidou Yamaguchi

Memorial Anniversary (Shunen), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)", 1831-32

Katsushika Hokusai

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Shinoda Jirodayu in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1772, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho