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

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Three Young Dreamers, c. 1760

Torii Kiyohiro

Fuchu: View of the Licensed Quarter in Nichomachi (Fuchu, Nichomachi kuruwa no zu), 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

Hotei Smoking his Pipe, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu), c. 1814

Katsushika Hokusai

Volcano, 1974

Ay-O

Geese Descending at Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of the Edo Pleasure Quarters (Edo irozato hakkei)", c. 1770/72

Isoda Koryusai

Cherry Blossom Banquet (Oka no utage), n.d.

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Flying Tea Ceremony Kettle (Tonda Chagama), c. 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho

The Sumo Wrestler Kurogumo Otozô with the Teahouse Waitress Naniwa Okita, Early 1790s

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Shimosa Province: Choshi Beach on the Outer Bay (Shimosa, Choshi no hama Toura), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

Utagawa Hiroshige

Woman Reading a Letter, from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon) (Fumi yomu onna), c. 1792/93

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Onio Shinzaemon and Onoe Kikugoro I as the courtesan Usugumo in the play "Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1744, 1744

Torii Kiyomasu II

Yakushi Nyorai, 10th/11th century

A Spa in Spring, 1940

Yoshida Hiroshi