Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (From the series Fashionable Presentations of Three Horses)

Drums and Shamisen

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actors Nakayama Kojuro VI (Nakamura Nakazo I) as Chidori, Sawamura Sojuro III as Shigemori, and Ichikawa Yaozo III as Yoshibei, in the shosa "Fukyoku Edo Geisha," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1785

Torii Kiyonaga

Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (center)

Kitagawa Utamaro

The New Year's Festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

Torii Kiyonaga

A Girl and Four Servants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Tamazusa of Iedaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai

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

Okumura Masanobu

Cooling off at Nakasu (Nakasu no suzumi), from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora, Azuma Tozo III as Miura Katagai, and Otani Tokuji I as Danzaburo, in the joruri "Chidorigake Koi no Tamaboko," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1784

Torii Kiyonaga

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

Party on the Pleasure Boat Kawaichimaru

Chōbunsai Eishi

Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters

Katsukawa Shunshō