Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"

Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"

Suzuki Harunobu

Empress Komyo (Komyoko), from the series "Three Beautiful Women (San bijin)"

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

"Ra": Narihira Requests a Painting from a Former Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"

Suzuki Harunobu

Poem by Sanjo'in no Nyokurodo Sakon, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets

Suzuki Harunobu

"Ro": Seaweed, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

"Wa": Young Grass, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho

Narumi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Double-page Illustration from Vol. 2 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"

Suzuki Harunobu

The First Bath of the New Year (Yudono hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Curfew Hours, from the series Eight Parlour Views

Suzuki Harunobu

Narcissus in Winter, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"

Katsukawa Shunchô