The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama 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)

Paper slipcover; ink and color on paper

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print in wide "hashira-e" format; ink and color on paper

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

Hand-colored Shinto woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Second two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

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

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Kunimasa ga"

Benizuri-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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

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

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

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Harunobu ga" (at edge of screen)