Woman About to Write a Poem

A Woman Pulling the Cord of a Wheeled Book Case, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"

Yashima Gakutei

Young woman reading "The Pillow Book (makura no soshi)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Ebisu (Shobishin), from the series "A Parody of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Mitate shichifukujin)"

Yashima Gakutei

Brush: Lady Wei (Fude: Ei fujin), from the series "The Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyo Circle (Ichiyoren bunbo shiyu)"

Yashima Gakutei

A Woman with a Poem Card, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"

Yashima Gakutei

Courtesan Seated at a Writing Table

Utagawa Toyohiro

Woman Reading a Letter (from the series Seven Episodes in the Life of Komachi in the Floating World)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Courtesan Reading Beside a Potted Plum Tree, from the series Seven Courtesans Compared to Daoist Immortals

Gakutei Harunobu

Osaka: Courtesan of the Shinmachi, from an untitled series of the three capitals

Yashima Gakutei

The Courtesan Karauta of Chojiya Reading a Book (from the series Six Authors of the Green Houses)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Kumegawa of the Ogiya

Chôbunsai Eishi

Yosooi of the Matsubaya, from the series Selections from Six Houses in Yoshiwara (Seiro rokkasen) (Matsubaya Yosooi)

Kitagawa Utamaro