The Bamboo Fence

Unjakuzan, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Kogo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Kotoku, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

Women Hanging Laundry to Dry on a Balcony

Kitagawa Utamaro

Women Hanging Laundry to Dry on a Balcony

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woman After a Bath, from "Comparison of Alluring Beauties (Irokurabe enpu sugata)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Visiting (Kayoi), from the series "Floating World Versions of the Seven Komachi (Ukiyo Nana Komachi)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Sakaki Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Sakaki), from a series of Genji parodies

Okumura Masanobu

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Mutsuhana (right), Bando Mitsugoro I as Kashiwagi no Emon (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Akamatsu Mushanosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

The parlor of a brothel in the pleasure quarters

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as a Pilgrim (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu (right), in the "Silent Encounter" Scene (Dammari) from the End of Part One of the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunsho

A Courtesan with Her Client, the first sheet of an untitled erotic picture album

Hishikawa Moronobu