Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "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

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink, color and metal filings on paper (with selected motifs emphasized with brush-applied ink)

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, far left sheet of a heptaptych

Thread-bound woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hashira-e" format; ink on paper, with printed signature reading "Shunshō ga"

Ink

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

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

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