Begging for Alms

Act Ten: Amakawaya House from the play Kanadehon Chushingura

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Hairdressing Room (Kamibeya), from the series "Ten Kinds of Incense in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro jisshu ko)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Courtesan Watching her Attendant Detain Hooded Man

Isoda Koryusai

Examination for Writing

Utagawa Toyokuni

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

Torii Kiyonaga

Omando: Ochie, Onokichi of the Matsuya, from the series Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu) (Omando, Matsuya uchi Ochie, Onokichi)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Opening the Storehouse (Kurabiraki), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada (right), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shizuya (center), and Nakamura Matsue I as Sakuragi (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

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

Boys' Day on the Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Sheep (Hitsuji no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

Kitagawa Utamaro