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Horse, from the series "Twelve Hours of the Floating World (Ukiyo juni shi)"

Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/1801

Act IX (Kudanme), from the series “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/99

A Ferry on the Sumida River

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1787

The Fifth Month (Gogatsu), from the series "The Twelve Months (Juni toki)"

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1791

In a Pleasure House in Shinagawa (Shinagawa no rojo)

Chôbunsai Eishi, n.d.

The Courtesan Shizuka of the Shizutamaya

Chôbunsai Eishi, 1790s

Suma, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1789/94

Gathering at a Teahouse on the Bank of the Sumida River

Chôbunsai Eishi, c. 1788/90

Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1804/06

The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Chigo Suzuri Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1777

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Honcho-maru Tsunagoro (?) in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1777 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1777

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Shinoda Jirodayu in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Moshio (?) in the Play Honda Yayoi Meoto Junrei (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1778 (?)

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1778

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Lady Yaehata in the Play Sanga no Sho Haru no Hanayome, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1787

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1787

New Year in a Samurai Mansion, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, New Year, 1789

"Ro": Seaweed, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1772/73

The Actor Nakajima Kanzaemon III as Yaguchi no Karasu-baba in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1777

A courtesan holding a pipe

Okumura Masanobu, mid–1740s

The Actors Sanjo Kantaro II as Osome and Ichikawa Monnosuke as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu Tamoto no Shiro Shibori," performed at the Morita theater, 1720

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1720

Solving a Puzzle

Okumura Masanobu, Early to mid-18th century

All Kinds of Household Items (Chodo zukushi), from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)"

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1705/06

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

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1710

The Morning After, from "Thinking of Rising from Bed - A Set of Three (Toko banare omoi iri sanpukutsui)"

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1750

The Roles Reversed, no. 12 from a series of 12 prints

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1708