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The Actor Arashi Hinaji I, Possibly as Yuya Gozen in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji

The Actor Arashi Hinaji I, Possibly as Yuya Gozen in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768, c. 1768

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The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated, c. 1795. Creator: Chokosai Eisho

The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated, c. 1795. Three of the most beautiful courtesans in the Yoshiwara pleasure district are depicted, each with a male guest. Their beauty is an analogy for fine poems of the past, six of which, one by each Immortal, are inscribed above. Narihira's most famous love poem is on the right, and a work by Ono no Komachi is on the left

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An outing at Hagidera, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners

An outing at Hagidera, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)", c. 1783/84

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