A sheet from a shunga album

A sheet from a shunga album

Hishikawa Moronobu

A sheet from a shunga album

Hishikawa Moronobu

Kotatsu Dojoji, no. 5 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays

Okumura Masanobu

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

Dalliance

Sugimura Jihei

A Courtesan with Her Client, the first sheet of an untitled erotic picture album

Hishikawa Moronobu

A sheet from a shunga album

Hishikawa Moronobu

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Okumura Masanobu

An Interrupted Embrace

Sugimura Jihei

Ariwara no Narihira, from the series "Fashionable Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Furyu kodakara rokkasen)"

Kikukawa Eizan

The Courtesan Hana-ogi of Ogiya as the Sennin Tekkai (from the series Eight Immortals of Sensuality)

Kitagawa Utamaro