Left art detail, from- Takehara Shunsensai (artist), Tokaen Michimaro, Picture Book of a Hundred Tales (Ehon hyaku monogatari), vol. 1, 1841 (cropped)

A drawing of a woman laying on a bed Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Untitled (Portrait of Nakatani Tsuru), Japan, c. 1920, Drawing; graphite on paper

Seiro kabuki yatsushi e-zukushi, juban-tsuzuki 青楼歌舞妓やつし画尽十番続 (Casual Depictions of Kabuki in Yoshiwara, a Ten-print Series) (BM 1909,0708,0.1.1-3 1)

Face detail, Katsukawa Shunzan - Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake; Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu - 1921.314 - Cleveland Museum of Art (cropped)

Empress Shōken art detail, from- Japanese Ministers of the Meiji Period by Hashimoto Chikanobu (cropped)

Ehon tsuhi no hinagata 絵本つひの雛形 or Ehon tsui no hinagata (Picture-book Models of Couples) (BM 1972,0724,0.17 1)

Summer Kimono (Yukata) with Illustrations from the 1802 novel 'Hizakurige' (Shank's Mare) by Ikku Jipensha (1765-1831) LACMA M.2006.37.6 (9 of 9)

Left art detail, from- Takehara Shunsensai (artist), Tokaen Michimaro, Picture Book of a Hundred Tales (Ehon hyaku monogatari), vol. 1, 1841 (cropped)

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The kowai and Empress Danrin from Picture Book of a Hundred Tales (Ehon hyaku monogatari), vol. 1, written by Tōkaen Michimaro 桃花園三千麿 (fl. 1808–1841) and illustrated by Takehara Shunsensai, 1841, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession TD 2013-02-073a