The Courtesan Shiratama of the Tamaya

Hananoto of the Ebiya in Kyōmachi 1-chome, from the series Songs of the Four Seasons in the Pleasure Quarters

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

The actor Sawamura Sojuro V as Tsubone Iwafuji

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Hamamuraya: Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Koman, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Lilies: young woman holding a letter, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Chōdayu of the Okamotoya from the series ?

Keisai Eisen

Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Katanaya Ohana, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Dancer as Kuzunoha, Fox Spirit Disguised as a Woman

Katsukawa Shunei

Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Courtesan

Utagawa Kuniyasu

Eyes for Looking at a Courtesan

Kikukawa Eizan

Irises: beauty arranging hair, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers

Utagawa Toyokuni I

The actor Sawamura Tozo I as Dogen no Okichi in the play "Yoshiwara Niwaka no Banzuke," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1804

Utagawa Toyokuni I