Two Courtesans

The Oystercatcher Dance (Miyakodori), from the series "Beautiful Dance Customs (Adesugata odori fuzoku)"

Kitao Shigemasa

Likes Enjoying Herself (Tanoshimizuki), from the series "Eight Views of Favorite Things of Today (Tosei kobutsu hakkei)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

Fashionable Six Immortal Poets (Furyu rokkasen)

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune (Heavenly Child—The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Poet Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsho

Half-length Portrait of Two Courtesans

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Sumizome (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Goinosuke Yoshimine (left), in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

Returning Sails at Ryogoku River (Ryogoku no kihan), from the series "Eight Parodies by Contemporary Beauties (Tosei mitate bijin hakkei)"

Kitao Shigemasa

Omi Province from the series Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyu Mu Tamagawa)

Kitagawa Utamaro

Hour of the Horse [12 am], Shrine Maiden (Uma no koku, miko), from the series “Customs of Beauties Around the Clock” ("Fuzoku bijin tokei")

Kitagawa Utamaro

Nakatsu, from the series Fifty-three Stations in the Life of a Beauty

Kitagawa Utamaro