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Images are CC0 or public domain, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

Kaigetsudō Anchi, Courtesan Walking (c. 1714)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.1741
CC0 · Author/source field: Kaigetsudō Anchi

Hishikawa Moronobu (attributed), A Parade of Courtesans (c. 1690)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.1702
CC0 · Author/source field: Hishikawa Moronobu

Hishikawa Moronobu, The Entrance to Ageya-machi (1681–84)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP808
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Hishikawa Moronobu

Sugimura Jihei (attributed), On the Yoshida Highway (c. 1685)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.1699
CC0 · Author/source field: Sugimura Jihei

Torii Kiyonobu I (attributed), Kabuki Actor (c. 1708)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3098
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Torii Kiyonobu I

Torii Kiyomasu I (attributed), Courtesan from the Myōgaya House (c. 1712)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3073
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Torii Kiyomasu I

Okumura Masanobu, Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater (1740)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1154
CC0 · Author/source field: Okumura Masanobu

Ishikawa Toyonobu, The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu (c. 1748)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.243
CC0 · Author/source field: Ishikawa Toyonobu

Torii Kiyomitsu I, Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook (1764)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.2003
CC0 · Author/source field: Torii Kiyomitsu I

Suzuki Harunobu, Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night (c. 1766)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1506
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu (attributed), Young Woman Riding a Phoenix (1765)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.87
CC0 · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu, Visit to a Shrine at the Hour of the Ox (1765)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2438
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu, Parody of Minamoto no Tametomo (1765)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2437
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu, Evening Chime of the Clock (c. 1766)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2447
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu, Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron) (1764–72)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2453
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Suzuki Harunobu, Osen of the Kagiya Teahouse (c. 1769)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1276
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Suzuki Harunobu

Isoda Koryūsai, The Courtesan Nishikigi of the Yotsumeya Brothel (1776)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2627
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Isoda Koryūsai

Isoda Koryūsai, Three Types of Drunks (c. 1770)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP139
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Isoda Koryūsai

Kitagawa Utamaro, Reflective Love (c. 1793/94)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.393
CC0 · Author/source field: Kitagawa Utamaro

Torii Kiyonaga, A Boating Party under Azuma Bridge (c. 1785)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2620a–c
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Torii Kiyonaga

Torii Kiyonaga, Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (1784)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985.330
CC0 · Author/source field: Torii Kiyonaga

Kitagawa Utamaro, Three Beauties of the Kansei Period (c. 1791)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1528
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro, Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure (c. 1795)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP145
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro, Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (1788)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1048
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro, Yamauba and Kintarō (c. 1795)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP980
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Kitagawa Utamaro

Chōbunsai Eishi, Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River (leftmost sheet) (c. 1792)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1153
CC0 · Author/source field: Chōbunsai Eishi

Chōbunsai Eishi, Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple (about 1788)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.3100
CC0 · Author/source field: Chōbunsai Eishi

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei (1794)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2822
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Tōshūsai Sharaku

Torii Kiyotada, Ichikawa Danjūrō II in “Wait a Moment” (Shibaraku) (c. 1715)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3075
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Torii Kiyotada

Katsukawa Shunshō, Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Traveler beside a Clump of Iris (c. 1780)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1921.1271
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsukawa Shunshō

Katsukawa Shunshō, Danjūrō V as a Skeleton and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess (c. 1783)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.491
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsukawa Shunshō

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Ichikawa Ebizō IV as Takemura Sadanoshin (1794)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930.205
CC0 · Author/source field: Tōshūsai Sharaku

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Segawa Tomisaburō II as Yadorigi (1794)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3112
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Tōshūsai Sharaku

Utagawa Toyokuni I, Sawamura Sōjūrō III as Shimada Jūzaburō (c. 1795)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2720
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Utagawa Kunisada, Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō (c. 1824)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1251
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Kunisada

Shunkōsai Hokushū, Nakamura Utaemon III as Ishikawa Goemon (1822)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020.303
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Shunkōsai Hokushū

Katsushika Hokusai, South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji) (c. 1830–32)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP9
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) (c. 1830–32)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1847
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Storm below Mount Fuji (c. 1830–32)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP11
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Shichirigahama in Sagami Province (c. 1830–32)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP15
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke (c. 1832)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1081
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Hokusai Manga (Sketches of Hokusai) (1812/78)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.628
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Oiwa, from One Hundred Ghost Tales (1831–32)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.603
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, The Emperor Tenji, from One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (c. 1835/36)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.1088
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai, Basket of Peonies (1810 or 1814)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1943.5
CC0 · Author/source field: Katsushika Hokusai

Utagawa Hiroshige, Evening Snow at Kanbara (c. 1833–34)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2492
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Morning View of Nihonbashi (c. 1833–34)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP471
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning (c. 1833–34)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP484
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Driving Rain at Shōno (1833)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.306
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, The Monkey Bridge in Kai Province (c. 1841–42)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3510
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon (c. 1833)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP270
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo (1857)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.3761
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Fireworks at Ryōgoku (1858)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.3734
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige, Plum Garden at Kameido (1857)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.3752
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ghosts of the Taira at Daimotsu Bay (1849–52)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1115.2a–c
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hu Sanniang, from One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (c. 1827/30)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975.488
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Popular Ōtsu-e Phenomenon (1848)
File: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 99.59.24a-c
Public domain (Mia) · Author/source field: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Utagawa Kunisada, Artisans, from An Up-to-Date Parody of the Four Classes (19th century)
File: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP3495a–c
Public domain (Met Open Access) · Author/source field: Utagawa Kunisada

Utagawa Sadahide, An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (1861)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.1784
CC0 · Author/source field: Utagawa Sadahide

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Moon over Daimotsu Bay: Benkei (January 1886)
File: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2017.106.167
Public domain (Mia) · Author/source field: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen (1864)
File: Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, F1904.75a
CC0 · Author/source field: James McNeill Whistler

Mary Cassatt, The Letter (1890–91)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932.1282
CC0 · Author/source field: Mary Cassatt

Arthur Wesley Dow, Boats at Rest (c. 1895)
File: Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.394
CC0 · Author/source field: Arthur Wesley Dow

Yoshida Hiroshi, Evening on the Chikugo River (1927)
File: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930.95
CC0 · Author/source field: Yoshida Hiroshi