Yumoto, from the series "Seven Famous Hot Springs of Hakone (Hakone shichito meisho)"

The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties: A Set of Twelve Prints (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura, junimai tsuzuki)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Scene at the Ishido Mansion (Ishido yakata no dan), from the series "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Fifth Month (Satsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Seasons (Furyu juni kiko)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

Torii Kiyonaga

Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo of the Otsuya (Otsuya uchi Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo), from the series "Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Scene at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, from Act One of Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), from the series "Chushingura Juichimai-Tsuzuki (Set of Eleven Sheets Illustrating Chushingura)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (left)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Courtesans of the Yadaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

Katsukawa Shunsho

Cherry Blossoms in Spring, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"

Katsukawa Shunchô

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV with his family, from an untitled series of four prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

A Girl and Four Servants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho