Hour of the Rat [12pm] (Ne no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

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

Tōshūsai Sharaku

Three Women after a Bath, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Poet Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

Ariwara no Narihira, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)"

Kikukawa Eizan

Flowers of the Doteshita District (Dotebana), from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Ginjuro's Wife Oyumi from the Play "Whirlpools of Awa" (Awa no naruto, Ginjuro nyobo Oyumi), from the series "Bamboo Nodes in Puppet Theater Designs (Ayatsuri moyo take no hitofushi)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actor Nakamura Riko with a courtesan, from an untitled series of aiban prints depicting Actors in private life

Torii Kiyonaga

Courtesan Going to Bed, from the series "Ten Types of Beauties in Pictures (Jittai e-fuzoku)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Sumizome (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Goinosuke Yoshimine (left), in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

Cloth-Strecher, from the series "Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni ko)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series "Sundial of Young Women (Musume hi-dokei)"

Kitagawa Utamaro