House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Nakamura Noshio I as Nyosan no Miya (right), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Monk Yochin (center), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as the Maid Mutsuhana (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Drawing Lots for Prizes (Ho biki)

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (right), Segawa Kikunojo II as Princess Tatsu (Tatsu Hime) (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Shinsha, Bando Kamezo, Nakamura Shikan ja Ichikawa Danzo

Kunisada

The Eighth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Swordsmith Munechika and the God of Inari

Katsushika Hokusai

Street scene in the Yoshiwara

Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro

Child Attendant and Bald Tengu of Mt. Kurama (Kaburo Kurama Tengu), no. 7 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

A Young Sanemori (Yaro Sanemori), no. 10 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

Chushingura: Act XI of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro