Geisha and a Palanquin, from the Series Thirtysix Best Courtesans

Women in a Mansion

Katsukawa Shunchô

Chushingura: Act II of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro

Courtesans of the Chojiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 1

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Fourth Month (from the series Fashionable Monthly Visits to Temples in the Four Seasons)

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Mutsuhana (right), Bando Mitsugoro I as Kashiwagi no Emon (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Akamatsu Mushanosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Courtesan Watching her Attendant Detain Hooded Man

Isoda Koryusai

Yoshiwara Women Looking into the Street at Springtime

Kitagawa Utamaro

Soga on Goro admonished by his mother, from the series "Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige

Three Women (from the series A Brief Collection of Japanese Beauties)

Torii Kiyonaga

Four courtesans of various houses, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 3

Katsukawa Shunsho

Two Geisha Struggling for a Letter (Fumi no arasoi), from the series "Flowers of Nakasu (Nakasu no hana)"

Torii Kiyonaga

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro