Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year

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

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Mask Carver

Katsushika Hokumei

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

Torii Kiyonaga

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

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Komatsu Shigemori from the Tales of Heike (Komatsu Shigemori, Heike monogatari), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"

Yashima Gakutei

Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Kumegawa of the Ogiya

Chôbunsai Eishi

Woman About to Write a Poem

Yashima Gakutei

Blue Shell (Aogai), from the series "Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)"

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

A Poet in the New Year

Yashima Gakutei

Brush: Lady Wei (Fude: Ei fujin), from the series "The Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyo Circle (Ichiyoren bunbo shiyu)"

Yashima Gakutei

Chinese Poetry, from the series "Three Classical Arts for the Sugawara Circle (Sugawara sanseki)"

Yashima Gakutei

The Filial Child from Shinano Province from the Collection of Stone and Sand (Shinano koji, Shasekishu), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"

Yashima Gakutei