Irises: beauty arranging hair, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers

Lilies: young woman holding a letter, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers

Utagawa Toyokuni I

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 actor Iwai Hanshiro as a courtesan

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Lion Dance

Suzuki Harunobu

The Courtesan Shiratama of the Tamaya

Utagawa Kunisada

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

Chôbunsai Eishi

Dance Interlude “The Wife from Shinoda Forest" (“Shinodazuma”) in “Mirror of Ashiya Dôman and Ôuchi” (“Dôman Ôuchi kagami”), from the series Designs for Patchwork Pictures (Oshie-gata)

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The actor Sawamura Sojuro V as Tsubone Iwafuji

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Viewing Maple Leaves (Momijigari), from the series "Dance Customs of Captivating Figures (Adesugata odori fuzoku)"

Kitao Shigemasa

Dancer as Kuzunoha, Fox Spirit Disguised as a Woman

Katsukawa Shunei

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