A Mirror of Japan’s Nobility

Mirror of National Costumes of All Nations (Bankoku ishō kagami)

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Bellflowers (Asagao), from the series Genji in Fashionable Modern Guise (Fūryū yatsushi Genji: Asagao)

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

Courtesan and Attendant

Utagawa Toyoharu

The Peony Show

Torii Kiyonaga

The Actors Bando Aizo as the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho and Ichikawa Raizo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Satsuki Matsu Unohana Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the fourth month, 1766

Torii Kiyomitsu I

Melting the Gold and Predicting the Future

Yu Guiyan

Courtesan and two attendants

Kawamata Tsunemasa

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

Katsukawa Shunsen

Standing Courtesan Looking Over Her Shoulder

Kaigetsudō Dohan

Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen")

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Shrine Dancers (Miko) Ohatsu and Onami

Ippitsusai Buncho

The Legendary Empress Jingū

Kōsai Hokushin 蛟斎北岑