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The Sixth Month, Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Teahouse, from the series The Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter (Minami jūni kō)
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock prints; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

The Fourth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"
Torii Kiyonaga
Color woodblock prints; oban diptych · 1779
Art Institute of Chicago

In the Room of a House of the Yoshiwara
Katsukawa Shunkō I
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · 1778
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as Yasukata and Iwai Hanshirô IV as Utôin Performing a Hobbyhorse Dance (Harugoma odori) in “The Fifth Genji Mitsugi’s Robe (“Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych · 1777
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Ichikawa Danjôrô V as Gokuin Sen’emon, Bandô Mitsugorô I as An no Heibei, and Nakamura Sukegorô II as Kaminari Shôkurô in “A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District” (“Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych · 1775
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Onoe Tamizô I, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, and Osagawa Tsuneyo II, in (possibly) “A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors” (“Date Nishiki Tsui noYumitori”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych · 1773
Art Institute of Chicago

The Seventh Month, from the series The Twelve Months by Two Artists (Ryoga juni ko)
Utagawa Toyohiro
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych · 1773
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych · 1771
Art Institute of Chicago

Festival by the Sumida River
Katsukawa Shunzan
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · 1767
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Spirit of the Monk Seigen and Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in “Courtesan in a Maple-Leaf-Pattern Over-Kimono” (“Keisei Momiji no Uchikake”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych · 1767
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Spirit of the Monk Seigen and Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in “Courtesan in a Maple-Leaf-Pattern Over-Kimono” (“Keisei Momiji no Uchikake”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych · 1767
Art Institute of Chicago

Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kajiwara Genta no Kagetoki (Left), Segawa Kikunojô II as Yuki Onna (Center), and Arashi Sangorô II as Minamoto no Yoritomo (Right) in “Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums” (“Miyoto-giku Izu no kisewata”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych · 1765
Art Institute of Chicago

New Year's Day at Ogi-ya brothel
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock prints; oban pentaptych · 1760
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Ichikawa Raizô I as Hanakawado no Sukeroku in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych (?) · 1759
Art Institute of Chicago

Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych (?) · 1759
Art Institute of Chicago

Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Osaka
Torii Kiyotsune
Left sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · 1758
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Parody of Yuranosuke in the Pleasure Quarters (Mitate Yuranosuke yukyo)
Chōbunsai Eishi
Color woodblock prints; ōban triptych · 1756
Art Institute of Chicago

Watching the Shellfish Gathering during Low Tide at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari kenbutsu)
Chōbunsai Eishi
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych · 1756
Art Institute of Chicago

In a Pleasure House in Shinagawa (Shinagawa no rojo)
Chōbunsai Eishi
Color woodblock prints; two sheets from an oban triptych · 1746
Art Institute of Chicago

Manzai Dancers
Teisai Hokuba
Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper · 1700
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Korean Embassy Parade
Hishikawa Moronobu
Hand-colored woodblock prints; makimono-e · 1677
Art Institute of Chicago

The Loyal League (Chushingura)
Utagawa Toyokuni II
Pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · 1615
The Metropolitan Museum of Art