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A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Kadokaneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)", c. 1797/98

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Nakaomiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

Parody of the Well Curb Story from the Tales of Ise, c. 1789/1801

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Nakaomiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Maruya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Yamashiroya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Echizenya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Kiribishiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Dutch Ships Entering the Port of the Island of Rhodes (Rokosuto minato Oranda fune nyushin no zu), c. 1818/30

Utagawa Kunitora

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Four courtesans of various houses, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 3, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Foreign Words (Ikoku kotoba), 1860

Utagawa Yoshiiku

A work made of color woodblock print; illustration cut from a book.

The Gate of the New Yoshiwara, frontispiece from the third volume of "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)", 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Okaneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Komatsuya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Tenjiku Tokubei (?) (right) and Bando Kumajuro as the Shopman Dempachi (?) (left), in the Play Keisei Katabira ga Tsuji (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1783 (?), c. 1783

Katsukawa Shunjо̄

A work made of color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych.

Actors Nakamura Sukegorô II as Sasano Sangobei (Left) and Ôtani Hiroji III as Satsuma Gengobei (Right) in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro moyô aoyagi Soga”), About 1775

Rantokusai Shundô

A work made of color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych.

Actors Nakamura Sukegorô II as Sasano Sangobei (Left) and Ôtani Hiroji III as Satsuma Gengobei (Right) in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro moyô aoyagi Soga”), About 1775

Rantokusai Shundô

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Suketsune in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789, c. 1789

Rantokusai Shundô

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Five Courtesans of Various Houses, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 3, 1776

Katsukawa Shunsho

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