The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsume House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Sharaku ga"

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper

Left half of an ukiyo-e woodblock printed "hosoban" diptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"

Thread-bound books (eight); ink on paper

Thread-bound woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "kokonotsu-giri ban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Thread-bound woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Katsukawa Shunshō ga"

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper