The Courtesan Yugiri and Her Lover Fujiya Izaemon, from the series "Tokiwazu Hakkei"

Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Soga Jūrō and Segawa Kikunojō I as the Courtesan Takamado

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Yoshiwara Courtesan and Secret Lover, from Selections from the Brocade Quarter (E-awase kingaishō)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Yagurashita Unlicensed Pleaser District in Fukagawa, from the series "Fukagawa Hakkei (Eights Views of Fukagawa)"

Art Institute of Chicago

The Courtesan Takihime and Attendants (from the series New Patterns of Young Greens)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Kitsune (Heavenly Child - The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

Art Institute of Chicago

Courtesan with Sake Cup

Minneapolis Institute of Art

(Courtesan and her Lover)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Courtesan Agemaki, the Ruffian Hero Sukeroku, and Hige no Ikyū

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Courtesan Takigawa of Ogiya (from the series Seven Aspects of Komachi in the Green Houses)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Yoshiwara Courtesan, from Selections from the Brocade Quarter (E-awase kingaishō)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Fujimura Handayu as a Courtesan

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya and her attendant, from the series "Fans of the East (Azuma ogi)"

Art Institute of Chicago