Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1800

Color woodblock print; hashira-e · woodblock print

Goldfish, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)"

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1802

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Drawing Lots for Prizes (Ho biki)

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1798

Color woodblock prints; ōban triptych · print

The Courtesan Arihara of the Tsuruya, and Child Attendants Aoe and Sekiya (Tsuruya uchi Arihara, Aoe, Sekiya), from an untitled series of courtesans

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1797

Color woodblcok print; aiban · woodblock print

The Flirtatious Type, from Ten Types in the Physiognomy of Women

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1793

color woodblock print

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

Art Institute of Chicago · n.d.

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

The Courtesans Kasugano and Utahama of Tamaya, from Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters in Double Mirrors

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1800

color woodblock print

Takashima Ohisa

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1795

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1801/04

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (left)

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1796–97

Triptych: color woodblock print

Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (center)

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1796–97

Triptych: color woodblock print

A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1794/95

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

Art Institute of Chicago · About 1803

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych · woodblock print

Takigawa of the Ōgiya from the series A Selection of Eastern Beauties

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1798

color woodblock print

The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1797

Color woodblock print; hashira-e · woodblock print

Catching Fireflies Beneath a Willow Tree (right)

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1796–97

triptych: color woodblock print

絵本駿河舞 / 喜多川歌麿 ; 奇々羅金鶏

National Library of France · 1790

Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. 1801–2

Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places" ("Meisho koshikake hakkei")

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1795/96

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe, from the series "Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon)"

Art Institute of Chicago · c. 1792/93

Color woodblock print; oban · woodblock print

Chushingura: Act X of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Cleveland Museum of Art · late 1790s

color woodblock print

Cleaning Combs

Cleveland Museum of Art · c. late 1790s

color woodblock print

Ehon mushi erabi [Album d'insectes choisis] / par Kitagawa Utamaro

National Library of France · 1787

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Cleveland Museum of Art · late 1790s

color woodblock print