Hinazuru of the Keizetsuro, n.d.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857
Utagawa Hiroshige
Courtesans of Maruya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776
Kitao Shigemasa
Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)", c. 1794
Kitagawa Utamaro
Tying Thread, from the series “Women’s Handicrafts: Models of Dexterity" ("Fujin tewaza ayatsuri kagami"), c. 1797/98
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Hundred Guilder Print, c. 1648
Rembrandt van Rijn
Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)", 1795
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Heating Sake with Maple Leaves (Kanzake momijigari), no. 9 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35
Okumura Masanobu
Fish and Plants, 1908
Ikeda Keisen
Kitchen Scene, c. 1794/95
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji and Segawa Kikujiro I as Hitachi Kohagi in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747, 1747
Torii Kiyonobu II
Dragon King, 11th/early 12th century
The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Konoshita Hyokichi (?) (right), and Sakata Hangoro II as Matsunaga Daizen Hisahide (?) (left), in the Play Gion Sairei Shinko Ki (?), Perfomred at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1775 (?), c. 1775
Katsukawa Shunsho
Beauty Carrying a Wedding Decoration, c. 1735
Nishimura Shigenobu
Geisha of the West District, n.d.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki"), c. 1794
Kitagawa Utamaro
The actor Sakakiyama Sangoro as Princess Odae, the daughter of the Senior Regent Michinaga, 1794
Tōshūsai Sharaku
Long Bridge at Seta (Seta no nagahashi), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", 1852
Utagawa Hiroshige
House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, late 1790s
Kitagawa Utamaro
Young Woman with Umbrella, c. 1740s
Ishikawa Toyonobu