Young Woman at a Loom

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

Throwing the Shuttle

Suzuki Harunobu

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Courtesan Writing from a Book from the series A Collection of Beautiful Women of the Yoshiwara

Suzuki Harunobu

Kaunotar (Bijin-ga) sarjasta Imayo onna kasen

Shikimaro

Writing on a Fan

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Women weaving on a loom

Katsushika Hokusai

Kinuta, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Tsukioka Kôgyo

The Twelfth Month (Goku getsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Woman of the Yoshiwara Reading Scroll

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Kitagawa Utamaro

Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro