Delaying the announcement of dawn

The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

Torii Kiyonaga

The Courtesan Matsukaze of Ogiya in Edo-machi Itchome (Edo-machi Itchome, Ogiya uchi Matsukaze)

Komai Yoshinobu

Cloth-fulling Jewel River, from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

Suzuki Harunobu

Kakkyo (Chinese: Guo Ju), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)"

Isoda Koryusai

The Courtesan Sugawara of the Tsuruya House and Her Kamuro Namiji and Kashiko

Katsukawa Shunsho

Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets

Suzuki Harunobu

Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)"

Ippitsusai Buncho

Returning Sails of the Towel Rack (Tenugui-kake no kihan), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"

Suzuki Harunobu

A Mirror on a Stand Suggesting the Autumnal Moon (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Two Young Women Playing Cat's Cradle

Isoda Koryusai

Uma no Naishi, from the series "Modern Versions of Famous Japanese Beauties (Wakoku bijin Yatsushishu)

Torii Kiyonaga

Love in Rain, Snow and Hail (Ame yuki arare ni yosuru koi)

Kitagawa Utamaro