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The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1779

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke III as the Sumo Wrestler Shirafuji Genta in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783

Katsukawa Shunjо̄, c. 1783

A Test of Skill - the Headwaters of Amorousness (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami): Osan and Mohei

Kitagawa Utamaro, n.d.

Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1805

A Beauty Walking

Sugimura Jihei, 17th century

Musicians from Tamaya Yahachi and hobby-horse dancers from Daimon Fujiya, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1776/81

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu (right), Nakamura Kiyosaburo (center right), Sanogawa Senzo (center left), and Nakamura Kumetaro (left)

Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1750

Manzan of the Chojiya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1778/80

Archery (Sha), from the series "Informal Versions of the Six Accomplishments in the Floating World (Ukiyoe rikugei ryaku)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1773/75

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

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