Works shown in the exhibition “Beauty and Desire in Edo period Japan”

Kaigetsudô ANCHI Standing beauty (18th century) 595.1993
Ippitsusai BUNCHÔ Onoe Matsusuke I (1770) 325.1995
Miyagawa CHÔSHUN Standing figure of an actor (1713) 583.1987
Chôtensai EIJU Presentation (mitate) of the story of the courtesan ... (late 1790s) DO3.1961
Ikeda EISEN (Woman in blue kimono) (19th century) 592.1993
Hosoda EISHI The fifth month (circa 1815-1842) DO2.1961
Kikukawa EIZAN (Woman holding a lamp) (19th century) 594.1993
Andô/Utagawa HIROSHIGE Daybreak at licensed quarters (1857) DO15.1961
Torii KIYONAGA (Girls carrying water for salt-making) (1780s) 8666
Isoda KORYÛSAI Kisakata of Ôhishi-ya (1777-1782) 4353
Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III Mannen Bridge (1854) 8358
Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III Kaomachi of Tama-ya (circa 1830) 4358
Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III Tôkaidô between Yoshiwara and Kambara: Iwabuchi: Woman Daruma (1852) 211.1995
Utagawa KUNISADA /TOYOKUNI III Variety of darkness: evening darkness (1854) 210.1995
Watanabe NANGAKU (Portraits of six poetesses) (18th century-19th century) 121.1980
Osaka School (A courtesan and a samurai) (19th century) 240.1994
Katsukawa SHUN'EI Portrait of a beautiful woman (Bijin) (1790s) 339.1985 | Collection highlight
Katsukawa SHUNKÔ Onnagata Nakamura Noshio dancing in the role of ... (circa 1794) 4351
Kubo SHUNMAN Courtesan standing beneath a tree (circa 1800) 39.1980
Nishikawa SUKENOBU (Girl with koto) (post 1716) 4349
Utagawa TOYOHARU Portrait of a standing courtesan (1780s) 104.1990
Unknown artist Views in and around Kyoto (Rakuchu-Rakugai zu) (circa 1660) 7.1980.a-b
Unknown Merrymaking in the Yoshiwara (mid 17th century) 41.1986
Kitagawa UTAMARO The coquettish woman (1802) 4368
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI Looking smoky - appearances of the housewife of ... (19 May 1888) 368.1991
Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI The twilight beauty (Chapter 4) (1886) 648.1994