Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of actors Ichimura Komazo and Yamashita Kinsaku as a couple. He sits on the floor beside a table with plum blossoms in a vase. She stands behind him. To one side is a seating area.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of the Handayu (her name) of Omi-ya (a geisha house). She is wearing a blue-white striped kimono, holding a white fan and looking back over her shoulder. In the background are cushions and plants before a large gray wall hanging.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of the fox wearing a Hakuzosu mask, in the play “Tsurigitsune” (The Fox and the Trapper) when he has transformed himself into a priest. The fox looks out from under a green hat and holds up a square. In the background is a cherry tree against a blue-yellow sky.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodblock print. Print is of women in new year’s fashion dresses. One woman sits in front of a small orange-black chest and paints her lips. Another woman stands behind her combing her hair. Another woman looks on from the side. All three women wear red patterned kimonos.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of a woman beating cloth on a fulling block (an apparatus for softening newly woven silk). She is seated before the fulling block, holding two wooden mallets. She is looking back over her shoulder at a crawling child, pulling on her robes. In the background is a landscape.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of a woman and a man. She is looking over her shoulder away from him. He rests a hand on her other shoulder. A young girl stands at the other side of the man. In the background are benches and a stand with an awning.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of Kiyomizu, a poetess of ancient Japan, as derived from Nana Komachi from “Furyu Nana Komachi”. She wears a pink kimono and walks down a flight of gray stairs. She is flanked by two tall pine trees. Across the top edge is a white border with a scalloped edge and Japanese script.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of Mitate Kikujido, a female character from a Noh play, who attained everlasting youth by taking the dew of the chrysanthemum. She wears a pink kimono and sits upon yellow ground beside a rushing white stream. Lining the stream are pink and yellow chrysanthemums. The background is a pink sky.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of a couple catching fireflies at night. He carries a net on a long stick; she carries a small box covered in netting. The background has green grass and a white stream against a black night sky.

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of a man standing upon a red fence, breaking off a plum branch. His girlfriend leans against a stone statue, watching. The background is black, with white stream. Across the top edge is a white border with a scalloped edge and Japanese script.