Vanity of Vanities, 1839
Katsushika Hokusai
Page 11 from the book Okyo Shubi Gafu, 1892
Maruyama Ôkyo
The actor Sawamura Sojuro lll as the lay priest Kiyomori, c. 1795
Utagawa Kunimasa
The Style of a Feudal Lord’s Household (Yashiki-fu), from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tosei fuzoku tsu), c. 1800/01
Kitagawa Utamaro
Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series "Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (Sanjuroku kinzoku)", 1828
Totoya Hokkei
Fujikawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806
Katsushika Hokusai
Seiro niwaka zensei asobi: Hana no mitsugi sorou tebyoshi, n.d.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari no zu), 1740s
Furuyama Moromasa
The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (?) in the Play Bunshin Sugatami Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1765 (?), c. 1765
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Whirlpools in Naruto Strait, Awa Province (Awa Naruto no fukei), 1857
Utagawa Hiroshige
The Ninth Month, from the series Five Amorous Festivals of Love (Aibore iro no gosekku), 1801
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya with her Attendants, from the series "Edo Purple in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro Edo murasaki)", c. 1790
Chôbunsai Eishi
A Water Conduit, A Scene in Sado (Mizuagehi [Sado shoken]), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)", 1921
Kawase Hasui
The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Hagun Taro (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Izutsu no Suke Narihira (center), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kose no Kanaoka Disguised as Sogoro the Charcoal Maker, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from "Tales of Ise"), c. 1767
Suzuki Harunobu
Shoki in Love, c. 1768
Suzuki Harunobu
Poem by Ariwara no Narihira, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)", c. 1835/36
Katsushika Hokusai
Benzaiten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)", c. 1769
Suzuki Harunobu
Actor as a Standing Beauty, About 1715
Torii Kiyomasu I
The Actors Tamazawa Rinya, Uemura Kohachi, and Ichikawa Monnosuke, c. 1715
Torii Kiyonobu I