Ukiyo-e

(Bijin with samisen).

(Bijin with samisen).

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
From the series, Twenty-four Hours with the Courtesans of Shimbashi and Yanagibashi.
Date: 1880
Ref: Keyes 427; Beauty and Violence 39
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Genji Rokujo no hana.  Genji - Flowers of Rokujo.
Bon Odori from Genji junikagetsu no uchi.  Twelve Months of Genji.
Plum blossoms along the Yoshiwara.  Zenseiro no ume.
(left) Ichikawa Sumio as Kamei Rokuro, Seki Sanjuro as Hitachibo Kaison, and Nakumura Fukuske as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (center) Ichikawa Danjuro as Musashibo Benkei (right) Kataoka Gado as Togashi Saemon (Yasuie)
A scene from the series, Newly Selected History of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.  Shinsen Taikoki. 
Fukagawa Hashiman keidai.  (The Hachiman Shrine of Fukagawa) ( A beach scene.) (Bijin with samisen).
Geisha cutting a plum branch, from the series, Twenty-four hours with the Courtesans of Shimbashi and Yanagibashi.
Jade Rabbit - Sun Wukong.  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi.  One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
The moon's inner vision.From the series, Tsuki hyakushi.  One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
Gojo Bridge Moon.  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
"Pleasure is this/ to lie cool under the moonflower bower/ the man in his undershirt, the woman in her slip."  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
Moonlight Patrol.  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
The night is still and a hundred flowers are fragrant...  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
"I listen to the sound of cloth being pounded..."  From the series, Tsuki hyakushi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
(A wild man.) A competition among powerful magicians.  Goketsu kijutsu kurabe
Okubo Tadanori rescuing Tokugawa Ieyasu on the battlefield.
From the series, Kokoku nijishiko. Twenty-four accomplishments in Imperial Japan.
Flowers. (A waitress.) (A beauty with plaid kimono and green hood.) Orio Yoshiharu.