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

Seiobo (Queen Mother of the West) and tortoise, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

The Third Month (Yayoi), from the series "Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)"

Suzuki Harunobu

Courtesan and Her Child Attendant Playing with a Cat

Suzuki Harunobu

Ise watching a flock of geese, from an untitled series of court ladies

Torii Kiyonaga

A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections

Mizuno Toshikata

The Elopement Scene in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (Katsuragawa renri no shigarami, michiyuki), from the series "A Selection of Ancient and Modern Dramas (Kokon Joruri zukushi)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

Woman by a Plum Tree Matched with the Wisteria Maiden (from a series of women compared to figures from Otsu paintings)

Yanagawa Shigenobu

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

Utagawa Hiroshige

Asuka no Suika, form the series "Eight Scenes of Edo (Koto hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga

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