Throwing the Shuttle

Weaving silk, plate 11 from the series "Silkworm Cultivation (Kaiko yashinai gusa)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

Young Woman at a Loom

Suzuki Harunobu

No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Koto (Kin), from an untitled series of the four accomplishments

Utagawa Toyoharu

Descending Geese of the Koto Bridges (Kotoji no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"

Suzuki Harunobu

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

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Modern parody of the well-curb episode from "Tales of Ise"

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Courtesans of Otawaraya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Kitao Shigemasa

Women weaving on a loom

Katsushika Hokusai

Courtesans of the Takeya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

Katsukawa Shunsho

Courtesan and Her Sleepy Attendant

Suzuki Harunobu