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

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

Kitao Shigemasa

Fishing, from the series "A Set of Ten Beauties in Flowerlike Styles (Enshoku hana fuzoku ju awase)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Freeing a captured bird

Suzuki Harunobu

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

Burning Maple Leaves to Heat Sake

Suzuki Harunobu

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

Kitao Shigemasa

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

Kitao Shigemasa

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

Shirotae of the Okanaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Nakamura Tomijuro I as Enju Disguised as the Shirbyoshi Gio (right), and Nakamura Noshio I as Goo Disguised as Hotoke Gozen (left), in the Play Miyako-zome Gio Katsugi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Ippitsusai Buncho