Nikenjaya no Bosetsu, from the series "Azuma Hakkei", c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

Actor Bandô Matatarô IV as Gempachibyôe in “Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise” (“Mutsu no hana ume no kaomise”), About 1769

Katsukawa Shunsho

Rensho arriving at Mt. Koya (Rensho Koya-iri), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)", c. 1705/06

Okumura Masanobu

"Ki," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)", c. 1772/73

Katsukawa Shunsho

Parody of Kawachi-goe from "Tales of Ise", 1765

Suzuki Harunobu

Flower-Viewing Party with Crest-Bearing Curtain, from the series "Flower Viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)", c. 1681/84

Hishikawa Moronobu

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV in a "Shibaraku" Role, Possibly from the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768, c. 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

Frogs in a Cage Before a Painted Screen, illustration for The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Katsushika Hokusai

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Owata in the play "Taiheiki Shizunome Furisode," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767, 1767

Kitao Shigemasa

Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, (kamuro:) Shirabe, Teriha, Flowers from the series Snow, Moon and Flowers in Yoshiwara (Seiro setsugekka) (Tamaya uchi Hanamurasaki, Shirabe, Teriha), 1793

Kitagawa Utamaro

Drums and Shamisen, n.d.

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hokusai manga (Sketches of Hokusai), v. 1-3, 5-11, and 14 of 15, 1812/78

Katsushika Hokusai

Tokoname-Ware Jar, 15th century

Act IX (Kudanme), from the series “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)", c. 1798/99

Kitagawa Utamaro

Burning Maple Leaves to Heat Sake, c. 1768

Suzuki Harunobu

Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya with Attendants Senkaku and Banki, n.d.

Kitagawa Utamaro

Totsuka, 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

Seitaka Dôji, 13th century

Poem by Lady Akazome Emon Poem by Sosei Hoshi, from the series “One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”, 1921

Katsushika Hokusai

A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai