Evening Glow at Matsusaki (Matsusaki no sekisho), from the series "Eight Fashionabe Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

The Actors Nakamura Tomijuro I as Enju Disguised as the Shirbyoshi Gio (right), and Nakamura Noshio I as Goo Disguised as Hotoke Gozen (left), in the Play Miyako-zome Gio Katsugi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho

Suma, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

Women in a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Chōbunsai Eishi

Two Women Strugging for a Fan

Suzuki Harunobu

Chinese Beauties at a Banquet

Kitagawa Utamaro

Mimosuso River in Ise Province (Mimosusogawa, Ise), from the series "Fashionable Mirrors of Famous Places (Furyu meisho kagami)"

Isoda Koryusai

Yasuhide, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

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

Kitao Shigemasa

Two Courtesans on a Moonlit Balcony at a House of Pleasure in Shinagawa, from the series "Nan'eki Shufu"

Katsukawa Shunsho

Henjo, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

Women in a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Chōbunsai Eishi

Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets

Suzuki Harunobu