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The Waitress Ohisa of the Takashimaya
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Iris Garden
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

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
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

A Picnic Party
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Visit to the Masaki Inari Shrine
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

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
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

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
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Women Admiring Peonies
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Narcissus in Winter, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Yoshiwara, from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Koto hakkei)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Women Boarding a Pleasure Boat
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801

The Eighth Month (Hachigatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"
Katsukawa Shuncho Japanese, active c. 1780-1801