No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)"

Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint

Katsushika Hokusai

Two Women and a Girl Looking at Paintings

Kubo Shunman

The actor Ichikawa Dajuro VII and a woman watching boy write first calligraphy of the New Year

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Artisan (Ko) from the series "Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Second Month (Ni gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Miyato of the Kadotamaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai

Hairdressing Room (Kamibeya), from the series "Ten Kinds of Incense in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro jisshu ko)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Sixth Month (Rokugatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"

Katsukawa Shunchô

Sugawara of the Tsuruya dreaming of Daikoku

Isoda Koryusai

Courtesans of Shin Kanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Kitao Shigemasa

Courtesans of the Kadokaneya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Katsukawa Shunsho