Plum blossoms and poet, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

Plum blossoms and poet, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

Nobleman playing flute, from the series "Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)"

Totoya Hokkei

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shume no Hangan Morihisa (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Chujo (left), in the Play Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

Courtesan and Kamuro Strolling at the Entrance Gate of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarters

Yashima Gakutei

Talvi

Kunisada

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Danjuro VIII ja muita näytelmässä Mimasu no Date-zome (Upea näyttelijän viitta)

Kunisada

The Young Murasaki (Wakamurasaki), from the series "Fifty-four Chapters of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari gojuyonjo)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

Kitao Shigemasa

Genjin tarinasta. Furyu wakana-tsumi

Kunisada

Noji Jewel River in Yamato Province (Yamato Noji), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa no uchi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

Näyttelijät Ichinojo, Onoe Baiko, Ichikawa Danjuro VIII, Utamenojo ja Ichikawa Kodanji IV näytelmässä Genyadana (Heikkoluonteisen Yosaburon tarina)

Kunisada