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

Yamauba Holding Chestnuts while Kintaro Reaches for Them, c. 1804/05

Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitchen Scene, c. 1794/95

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

A Young Woman Walking near a Plum Tree, c. 1688

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

Courtesan entertaining Daikoku and Fukurokuju, no. 10 from a series of 12 prints, c. 1708

Okumura Masanobu

Mirror of Elegance (Furyu kesho kagami), n.d.

Tamagawa Shûchô

The actor Sawamura Tozo I as Dogen no Okichi in the play "Yoshiwara Niwaka no Banzuke," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1804, 1804

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Autumn Moon over Tama River (Tamagawa no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views in the Environs of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi)", c. 1837/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

Crowds on a Bridge, n.d.

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu : Asazumabune Ogiuri Uta....., 1793

Kitagawa Utamaro

Sayoginu of the Yotsumeya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)", c. 1777

Isoda Koryusai

New Year's Day at Ogi-ya brothel, 1811

Katsushika Hokusai

Murasaki Shikibu, Edo period (1615–1868), about 1784

Torii Kiyonaga

Hamamatsu—No. 30, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

The White Coat, from the series "New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style (Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-moyo)", c. 1796/98

Kitagawa Utamaro