Courtesans of Ogiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1, 1776

Kitao Shigemasa

Square Dish with Autumn Grasses and Moon (Musashino), c. 1955

Kitaôji Rosanjin

A Mandarin Duck on a Snowy Bank, 1830s

Utagawa Hiroshige

Kannon Bosatsu, 12th/14th century

A water vendor, 1765

Suzuki Harunobu

Women viewing dragon and tiger made of tobacco pouches, c. 1795

Chôbunsai Eishi

In the Snow, Nakayama-Shichiri Road in Hida Province (Hida Nakayama-Shichiri), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1924

Kawase Hasui

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

Katsushika Hokusai

Yui: The Yui River (Yui, Yuigawa), 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

Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki"), c. 1794

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue in the Play Yuki Nazuna Saiwai Soga, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1787, c. 1787

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

Volcano, 1974

Ay-O

Tatekawa River Lumberyard at Honjo (Honjo Tatekawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

Beauty and Attendant on New Year’s Day, from the series “Pleasures for Beauties on the Five Festival Days" ("Bijin gosetsu no asobi"), c. 1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

Young Woman Holding an Umbrella, c. 1750

Torii Kiyohiro

Narihira at Yatsuhashi Bridge, 1765

Eyebrow Pencil, January 1928

Ito Shinsui

A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase): Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya in Procession (Tamaya Hanamurasaki dochu no zu), c. 1795

Chôbunsai Eishi

Hour of the Tiger [4 am], Courtesan (Tora no koku, keisei), from the series "Customs of Beauties Around the Clock (Fuzoku bijin tokei)", c. 1798/1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

Tatsumi Roko, from the series “Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets" ("Komei bijin rokkasen"), c. 1794/96

Kitagawa Utamaro