Lovers Leaving a Room

An Interrupted Embrace

Sugimura Jihei

The insistent lover, from an untitled series of erotic prints

Sugimura Jihei

The Kiritsubo Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Kiritsubo), from a series of Genji parodies

Okumura Masanobu

Sanbaso Dance in a Brothel (Ageya sanbaso), no. 1 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

Narihira: The Mirror Scene (Narihira kagami no dan), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanaese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)"

Okumura Masanobu

Back to back, from a series of 12 prints

Furuyama Moroshige

Six women seated around a bird cage

Katsushika Hokusai

The Tanabata Festival, from the series "Amusements of the Five Festival Days (Gosetsu asobi)"

Katsukawa Shunchô

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada (right), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shizuya (center), and Nakamura Matsue I as Sakuragi (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Utsusemi Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Utsusemi), from a series of Genji parodies

Okumura Masanobu

The Momiji-no-ga Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Momiji-no-ga), from a series of Genji parodies

Okumura Masanobu

Reading a Letter

Furuyama Moroshige