The Actors Yamamoto Iwanojo as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Fuwa Bansaku in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I (right), Sanogawa Ichimatsu I (center), and Sanogowa Senzo (left), from the triptych "Negura sanpukutsui", c. 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Onami Disguised as the Dragon Princess in the Play Saki Masuya Ume no Kachidoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778, c. 1778

Katsukawa Shunsho

Daikon Riverbank (Daikongashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)", 1920

Kawase Hasui

The Warrior Watanabe no Tsuna Fighting the Demon at Rashomon, About 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Kasumigaseki, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)", c. 1832/33

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Mother and Child at Dusk (Oyako yugure), from the series "Three Evening Pleasure of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)", c. 1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Torii Kiyonaga

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

Katsushika Hokusai

Sojo Henjo, twelfth poet in the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by the Nurse, c. 1835/36

Katsushika Hokusai

Beauty Wearing a Summer Kimono, from the series “New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style" ("Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-shinmoyo"), c. 1796/98

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Sheep [2 pm] (hitsuji no koku), from the series “Sundial of Young Women" ("Musume hi-dokei"), c. 1794/95

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Poetess Ono no Komachi, Edo period (1615–1868), 1767/68

Suzuki Harunobu

By the Stream, c. 1765

Suzuki Harunobu

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879–80

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Hakone, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year, 1823

Totoya Hokkei

Partial Figure of a Pregnant Women, 1000–300 BC

Lingering Snow at Asukayama (Asukayama no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi)", 1837-38

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Sakon-gitsune in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775, c. 1775

Katsukawa Shunsho