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Japanese woodblock print of women and a kneeling man with swords before a painted landscape screen.

Great house cleaning at year's end

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798

Japanese woodblock print of a seated man in grey robes and a standing woman in a patterned kimono holding a blossom branch.

The actors Ichikawa Danzō and Ichikawa Danzaburō

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1798

Japanese woodblock print of three courtesans and a young attendant in patterned kimono, one carrying a flower bouquet.

The courtesan Hinazuru of the Choji-ya

Torii Kiyonaga, 1782

Woodblock print of women and children catching fireflies with fans near reeds, a bridge, and a stone lantern.

Catching fireflies

Katsukawa Shunsen, 1810

Woodblock print of a standing woman and seated man beside a brazier and sword, behind a lattice shoji screen.

The actors Segawa Yūjirō and Onoe Tamizō

Torii Kiyotsune, 1764

Woodblock print of women in kimono doing household tasks in a wooden house with shoji screens and snow outside.

House of Ichizuke

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1804

Woodblock print of a man holding a parasol over a woman in a patterned kimono, with calligraphy and a handwritten label.

The actors Ichikawa Komazō as Sanno no Genzaemon and Segawa Kikunojō as the keisei Tamagiku

Kitao Shigemasa, 1764

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman holding a gourd and a child reaching toward a leaping horse, 1795.

A modern allegory of the Chinese sage Zhang Guo lao (Chōkaro)

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1795

Woodblock print of a mounted traveler in a hat passing a roadside teahouse with pine trees and a servant beside him.

Shirasuka

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1804

Japanese woodblock print of two children playing with toys beside a lattice screen and blossoming plum branches.

Brother and sister

Ishikawa Toyonobu, 1751

Woodblock print of an armored samurai on horseback crossing a river, with cherry blossoms and a boat in the background.

Lieutenant Taifu Atsumori [who has not received his proper name]

Torii Kiyotsune, 1764

Ink print of two kabuki-style figures in patterned kimono beside a latticed screen and pine tree on a veranda.

The actors Sawamura Kodenji [and ? in the role of Minamoto Yoshitsune]

Torii Kiyonobu II, 1744

Woman in kimono kneeling by a flowering branch and vase, looking toward a bird outside a latticed window.

May: Cuckoo

Isoda Koryusai, 1772

Woodblock print of a seated young boy holding a flowering branch and a hanging fruit ornament, in a butterfly-patterned robe.

Male child with pleach blossom sprig

Ishikawa Toyomasa, 1772

Japanese woodblock print of two armored warriors, one on a red horse, with a raised halberd and calligraphy.

The warriors Miura Ōsuke Yoshiaki and Miura Bettō Yoshizumi

Katsukawa Shuntei, 1804

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a hobby horse beside a latticed screen.

The actor Ichimura Uzaemon as Kidōmaru

Kitao Shigemasa, 1764

Woodblock print of a woman with elaborate hairpins holding a pipe, beside a man with a topknot, by Kitagawa Utamaro.

Osono and Rokusaburō

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1801

Japanese woodblock print of three women and a child walking beneath drooping wisteria, with pine trees and water behind them.

Three beauties beneath wisteria

Torii Kiyonaga, 1784

Black-and-white Japanese print of a seated man in a patterned kimono holding a fan, with a sword and bamboo motifs.

Singing

Torii Kiyonaga, 1781

Colored print of Itsukushima Shrine with red-roofed halls on water, a torii gate, boats, and green hills behind.

A perspective picture of Itsukushima Shrine

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1767

Woodblock print of two courtesans with gold hairpins, one reading a handwritten letter, by Kitagawa Utamaro.

The courtesans Yoyotose and Yoyoginu of the Matsuba-ya

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1801

Ukiyo-e print of two women with elaborate hairpins and patterned kimono, with calligraphy and signature beside them.

The courtesan Midorigi of Okamatsu-ya

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1804

Woodblock print of a courtesan with a floral parasol, flanked by two attendants and a man in a checked robe.

The courtesan Tsurunoo of Tsuru-ya

Isoda Koryusai, 1776

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a black kimono holding a green parasol, beside wooden buckets and a barrel.

The actor Ichikawa Danjūrō in the role of Sukeroku

Torii Kiyohiro, 1751

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono standing under a willow tree, one holding a sword.

The actors Ichimura Kamezō and Nakamura Kiyoza

Torii Kiyohiro, 1751

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in warrior costume with swords, seated before a wooden barrier between red pillars.

The actor Ichikawa Ebizō in the role of Shinozuka breaking through the barrier

Torii Kiyomasu, 1730

Woodblock print of a standing kabuki-style figure in a long robe holding a fan and a parasol, in pink and tan tones.

The actor Iwai Hanshirō

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1777

Woodblock print of a Kagura performance inside a timber shrine hall with seated audience, musicians and bamboo at centre.

Perspective picture of Daidai Kagura performance at the two sites, Ise Shrine

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1767

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned grey kimono, hand at her chin, beside rippling water and reeds.

The actor Iwai Hanshirō IV

Katsukawa Shunkō, 1775

Japanese woodblock print of a standing man in a patterned kimono holding a sword, with a lantern and flowering branch.

The actor Sawamura Sojūrō III

Katsukawa Shunkō, 1776