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Japanese woodblock print of two women and a child in kimono on a veranda, with calligraphy in the upper right.

Visiting Komachi

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1779

Woodblock print of a standing woman, a servant with a tray, a seated child and a man smoking in an interior.

Forgetting Filial Piety

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1781

Woodblock print of two women and a samurai man under cherry blossoms, one holding a birdcage and one a fan.

Drunk with Flowers

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1781

Japanese woodblock print of three women in a room with calligraphy scrolls, an inkstone, and hanging poem slips.

Gyoku-kashi Eimo Preparing Calligraphy Offerings

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1782

Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono, one carrying a child in an orange robe, with a bald man at right.

MotHer Carrying Her Baby Girl to the Miya Mairi

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1784

Japanese woodblock print of three women in kimono in an interior with a screen, one bent forward playfully near a seated figu

A Practical Joke

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1782

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a staff, two kneeling performers with peonies, and musicians under a pine tree.

Actors in a Shosa (Combination of Acting and Dancing) Performance

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1790

Woodblock print of women, children and a man in kimono before a shop with hanging curtains and a large crest.

Group before the Echigo-ya Dry-goods Shop on New Year's Day

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1789

Japanese print of a court carriage with a seated noblewoman behind a lifted blind and a standing attendant beside the shafts.

Court Carriage

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Japanese print showing a black lacquer inro with pine design, a carved netsuke, and a bearded figure netsuke, with calligraph

Inro and Two Netsuke

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of a young nobleman in patterned robes playing a koto before distant hills, with poem columns beside him.

Young Nobleman Playing Koto (Harp)

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of a kneeling nobleman on a veranda gazing at a shuttered house beside water, with calligraphy at left.

Young Nobleman Looking Inside of a House

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a kneeling court lady in a patterned kimono, with calligraphy and a red seal beside her.

Young Court Lady

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of a standing nobleman in patterned robes and a kneeling carpenter working on a wooden box, with calligraphy.

Young Nobleman and Carpenter

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Print of two seated figures in court dress on a wooden veranda above rippling water, with plum branches and calligraphy.

Young Nobleman and His Attendant

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of two women in kimono approaching a shrine with a red lantern, a child at lower left, and a fern above.

Young Women Visiting a Shinto Shrine

Katsushika Hokusai, 1814

Woodblock print of two robed figures beside a screen with a crane and waves, with calligraphy text at left.

History of Kamakura (where Minamoto Shogunate was Established)

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of a seated woman in patterned robes beside a dragon coiled around a rocky cliff above waves.

History of Kamakura

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of samurai with a banner and sword on wavy water, with handwritten calligraphy above.

History of Kamakura

Totoya Hokkei, 19th century

Woman in patterned kimono pointing at plum branch on arched bridge, seated man with basket beside her, Japanese woodblock pri

History of Kamakura: Poem-bridge of Egara Tenjin Shrine

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of carpenters shaping timber beams with mallets and chisels beside a tall tree and red fence.

History of Kamakura: Building Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine

Woodblock print of a seated red-haired deity on a rock receiving incense from a kneeling woman, with calligraphy beside them.

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: “Offering Incense to the Deity of the Stone” (Yōgōishi), from the seri…

Kubo Shunman, early to mid-1810s

Japanese print of courtiers in formal robes leading a white horse past a wooden veranda and a pine tree.

Hakuba no Sechie

Kitao Shigemasa

Japanese print of courtiers on a wooden veranda with plum blossoms, a reading figure, and a standing woman in patterned robes

An Incident from the Tales of Ise (Ise Monogatari)

Kitao Shigemasa, ca. 1790

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a patterned green kimono with calligraphy inscription above her.

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan

Utagawa Kuninao, probably 1810s

Woodblock print of two women and an infant on a veranda beside a garden tree with a hanging wind-bell.

The Evening Wind-bell

Santō Kyōden, ca. 1783

Woodblock print of two women and a man with a basket approaching a stone well marked by a wooden sign.

History of Kamakura: Visitors to Hoshinoi Well

Totoya Hokkei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a courtesan in patterned kimono beside a glowing lantern at night, with calligraphy.

Courtesan by a Lantern, “Fire,” from the series Five Elements for the Bunsai Poetry Group, a Guide to the Yoshiwara P…

Totoya Hokkei, ca. 1820

Woodblock print of a courtesan with two young attendants in patterned kimono, with calligraphy in the upper left.

The Oiran Shirayu of Wakanaya attended by Two Kamuro and Shinzo

Katsukawa Shuncho, ca. 1778

Woodblock print of a courtesan with two attendants in patterned kimonos against a plain tan background.

The Oiran Wakoku of Echizen-ya attended by a Shinzo and a Kamuro

Katsukawa Shuncho, ca. 1778