Creating surimono for the New Year

The Second Month (Ni gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Hojo Tokiyori, from the series "Twenty-four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijushisho)"

Yashima Gakutei

The Artisan (Ko) from the series "Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Yoshiwara in Edo, from the series "Seven Courtesans (Nana yujo)"

Katsushika Hokusai

Sei Shonagon, from the illustrated book "Collection of Pictures of Beauties (Bijin e-zukushi)"

Hishikawa Moronobu

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

Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year

Totoya Hokkei

Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint

Katsushika Hokusai

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

Chôbunsai Eishi

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

Isoda Koryusai

Two Women and a Girl Looking at Paintings

Kubo Shunman

Women at Two in the Afternoon

Kitagawa Utamaro