The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series "Courtesans of the Five Festivals (Yukun gosekku)"

New Clothes for the Festival of New Herbs (Wakana no hatsuisho): Tamagiku of the Kadotamaya with Attendants Kikuno and Kikuji

Chôbunsai Eishi

Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya, from the series Six Flowery Immortals of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin rokkasen)

Chôbunsai Eishi

The White Coat, from the series "New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style (Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-moyo)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hananoto of the Ebiya in Kyōmachi 1-chome, from the series Songs of the Four Seasons in the Pleasure Quarters

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

The First Month (Sho gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Lion Dance

Suzuki Harunobu

Goten Hill (Goten-yama), from the series "Flower Viewing in Edo (Edo hanami tsukushi)"

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Shinanoya Ohan in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunjо̄

The actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Churo Onoe

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

The actor Iwai Hanshiro as a courtesan

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Takigawa of the Ogiya in the First Sale of the New Year (Hatsu uri zashiki no zu), from the series "A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase)"

Chôbunsai Eishi

Woman of the Yoshiwara Reading Scroll

Kitagawa Utamaro