The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I and Azuma Tozo, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Sumo Wrestler Kurogumo Otozô with the Teahouse Waitress Naniwa Okita

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III with a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

Seven Komachi Episodes: A Woman Holding an Outer Garment for a Man

Kitagawa Utamaro

Sugatano of Sugata Ebisuya in the Morning, Hour of the Rabbit, from the series The Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters

Kikukawa Eizan

The Actors Yamashita Mangiku and Otani Hiroji lll, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

The Sumo Wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo of the Eastern Group, with an Attendant

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), 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

Osome and Hisamatsu, from the series "Beauties in Joruri Roles (Bijin awase joruri kagami)"

Ichirakutei Eisui

The actors Segawa Kikunojo III (R) as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sawamura Sojuro III (L) as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Ohana and Ofuku, from the series "A Selection of Entertainers from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro geisha sen)"

Chôbunsai Eishi