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

Obi (Belt), late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

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

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

Crowds on a Bridge, n.d.

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

Nest Bassinet, 2005

Scott Wilson

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

Yamauba Breast Feeding Kintaro, c. 1801/06

Kitagawa Utamaro

Snake (Mi): Nitan Shiro, from the series "Heroes for the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyu mitate junishi)", c. 1840

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

Ishiyakushi—No. 45, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige