Arts of Asia — Page 5

Courtesan Going to Bed, from the series "Ten Types of Beauties in Pictures (Jittai e-fuzoku)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1794

Courtesans and Their Child Attendants under Blossoming Cherry Trees

Torii Kiyonaga, 1785

The Sixth Month (Minatsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juniko)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779

Evening Snow at Kinryuzan Temple (Kinryuzan no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1778

Women on a Pleasure Boat

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1790

Hotei, from the series "Comparison of the Treasures of the Gods of Good Fortune (Fukujin takara awase)"

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1795

Henjo, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1789/90

Takashima, from the series "A Collection of Flower-like Faces of Beauties (Bijin kagan shu)"

Chôbunsai Eishi, late 18th/early 19th century

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Itsuki and Bando Hikosaburo II as Oyamada Taro in the play "Taiheiki Shizunome Furisode," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767

Kitao Shigemasa, 1767

Courtesans of Shin Kanaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Kitao Shigemasa, 1776

Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran)

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1772

Two Geisha Holding a Shamisen and a Song Book

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1777

The Big Snowman

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1764

Ono no Tofu Watching a Leaping Frog

Kitao Shigemasa, early 1760s

Act Four: Enya Hangan's Castle from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1795

A Young Woman Watching Frogs (parody of Ono no Tôfû)

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1760

First Meeting (Miai), from the series "Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni shiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1775

Begging for Alms

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1771

Two Women Washing Their Hair

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Fishing Excursion

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1799

Enoshima in Sagami Province (Soshu Enoshima), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Dawn over Mout Fuji and Susaki, from the series "Five Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji goban no uchi)"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1827/29

Maisaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

The Harugoma Dance

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1764

Young Lady and Matron, from "Girls of Fukagawa - A Triptych (Fukagawa musume sanpukutsui)"

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1750s

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I in his rice cracker shop

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1771

Young woman holding obi between her teeth

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1760/64

Chasing Fireflies

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1761

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Nagoya Sanzaburo and Ichimura Kamezo II in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Tsuitachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1766

Torii Kiyomitsu I, 1766

The actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Watanabe no Tsuna

Torii Kiyomitsu I, second half of 18th century

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1761

Young woman entering a room

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1760/64

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1771

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Hata no Daizen Taketora in the play "Kisoeuta Sakae Komachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1762

Torii Kiyomitsu I, 1762

Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Sukeroku in “The Seven Guises of Soga” (“Nanakusa Yosooi Soga”)

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, 1782

The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as Lady Hotoke (Hotoke Gozen) in the Play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1785

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V, Probably as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Sanjo Uemon, Leader of a Robber Gang, in Part Two of the Play Fude-hajime Kanjincho (First Calligraphy of the New Year: Kanjincho [The Subscription List]), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1784

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1784

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (right), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Wappa no Kikuo (left) in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1775

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1775

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Osan in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1780

The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as the Courtesan Miyagino (?) in the Play Go Taiheiki Shiraishi-banashi (?), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1780

Mishima, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

The Actor Iwai Kiyotaro II

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1790s

Votive Offering

Katsukawa Shunchô, 1780s

The Third Month (Sangatsu), from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1784

Parody of Kanzan and Jittoku

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779

Buying Potted Plants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1783/84

Women and Children on the Causeway at Shinobazu Pond

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1788

Spring Outing to Mukojima

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1787