Searching for Fireflies

Courting Komachi (Kayoi Komachi), from the series Seven Fashionable Figures of Ono no Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi yatushi sugata-e)

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Women Cutting Branches of Bush Clover; The Noji Tama River in Omi Province, from an untitled series of the Six Tama Rivers

Kubo Shunman

Monkey: Koshindo Hall at Takanawa (Saru, Takanawa Koshindo), from the series "Famous Places in Edo Compared to the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac for the Ichiyo Circle (Ichiyoren Edo meisho mitate junishi)"

Yashima Gakutei

Buying Potted Plants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Courteousness (Rei), from the series "Five Virtues in the Manners of Women (Fuzoku onna gojo)"

Katsukawa Shunzan

The Ninth Month (Kikuzuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"

Isoda Koryusai

The Courtesan Yoso-oi of the Pine Needle House in the Yoshiwara and Her Attendant (Matsubaya Yoso-oi)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Chushingura: Act VI of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo and Nakamura Shichisaburo II as Hanbei in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744

Torii Kiyonobu II

The Actors Nakamura Shichisaburo III (right), and Ichikawa Junzo I (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Visiting the Shrine of Enmei Jizo, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Courtesans of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter, from the Series Seiro Kokon Hokku Awase

Katsukawa Shunsho