Beauty Reading a Letter

Young woman holding poem slip

Utagawa Toyohiro

Wakana of the Matsubaya, from the series "Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as the Six Floral Immortals (Seiro bijin rokkasen)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

The Love Letter

Suzuki Harunobu

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

The Actor Segawa Kikujiro I as Oshichi in the play "Shochikubai Kongen Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1732

Nishimura Shigenobu

A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards

Totoya Hokkei

Woman Reading a Letter (from the series Seven Episodes in the Life of Komachi in the Floating World)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woman Stepping Out with a Lantern

Suzuki Harunobu

Yu Qianlou (Jp: Yu Kinro), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"

Totoya Hokkei

No. 6: Flower of the Capital (Miyako no hana), from the series "A Comparison of Flowers (Hana awase)"

Yanagawa Shigenobu II

Returning Sails (Kihan), from the series "Eight Views of Snow Scenes (Yukimi hakkei)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

A Woman with a Poem Card, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"

Yashima Gakutei