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The Waitress Ohisa of the Takashimaya
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801
Iris Garden
The Tanabata Festival, from the series "Amusements of the Five Festival Days (Gosetsu asobi)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active about 1781-95
The Waitress Okita of the Naniwaya
A Picnic Party
Visit to the Masaki Inari Shrine
The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), and Ichikawa Komazo I as Yukihira (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771
Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day
Summer Bush Clover (Natsuhagi), from the series Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)
Katsukawa Shunchō Japanese, active about 1781-95
Girl on River Bank
Katsukawa Shunchô Japanese, 1726-1792
Picking Flowers at Kumano Junisha Shrine in Tsunohazu
Women Admiring Peonies
Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Narcissus in Winter, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"
Yoshiwara, from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Koto hakkei)"
Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Women Boarding a Pleasure Boat
Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond
The Eighth Month (Hachigatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"