Sei Shonagon, from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)", c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

Sangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)", 1835/36

Katsushika Hokusai

Mitsuke, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

Sakata Kintoki Wrestling with a Tengu, 1715-18

Torii Kiyomasu I

Nakayama Tomisaburo, c. 1800

Enkyo

Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (Uso, shidarezakura), from an untitled series of flowers and birds, c. 1834

Katsushika Hokusai

Busu, from the series "Fifty Kyogen Plays (Kyogen gojuban)", 1927 (Published)

Tsukioka Gyokusei

Hour of the Rat [12pm] (Ne no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)", c. 1794

Kitagawa Utamaro

Onchi Kōshirō, 1952

Sekino Jun’ichirō

A Contemporary Parody of Komachi Prays for Rain (Tosei yatsushi Amagoi Komachi), c. 1792

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Jizo Bosatsu, Late 14th century

A Battle in Mid-Stream, c. 1705/10

Torii Kiyonobu I

Japanese white-eyes on a maple branch, 1854

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Nun Seigen, c. 1763

Suzuki Harunobu

Catching Fireflies, About 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

Morning Glories and Tree-frog, from an untitled series of Large Flowers, c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

Fuji from Kanaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Kanaya no Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), c. 1830/32

Katsushika Hokusai

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Waitress Otake in the Play Chigo Suzuri Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1777, c. 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho

Courtesans of the Shin Kanaya, from the series "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Kitao Shigemasa

The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho), c. 1779

Torii Kiyonaga