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Okumura
Segawa and Matsuhito
Two Courtesans
A Beautiful Woman Tuning a Samisen
Horned Owl and Sparrows
Tanabata Festival
Beauty After Bath
Interior View of the Nakamura-za Theatre
Entrance to Yoshiwara Gay Quarters
Lovers Floating, 1742
Courtesans admiring a painting by Okumura Masanobu
Courtesans relaxing by writing a letter and playing shamisen
Three samurai listen to a courtesan play the shamisen
Courtesans playing shamisen and dancing in
Courtesan playing a shamisen for customers
Masanobu, Okumura (circa
Masanobu, Okumura (circa
Okumura Masanobu (c. 168
Masanobu, Okumura (circa
Oiran courtesan fixing her hair while a samurai watches
Courtesans and a street entertainer with performing
Samurai and servant, courtesans and merchants
Samurai in a sedan chair, courtesans and tradesmen
Samurai and tradesmen on the Daimon-zaka road
A two-story teahouse in Kyomachi Yoshiwara pleasure quarters
Maids helping courtesans with their kimono, hair and obi
Courtesan and customer sharing a tobacco pipe
Miasma (Sawaki no tei), with three courtesans
Japanese god Daikokuten with courtesan and
Kabuki actor Nakamura Kichibei with broom
Samurai receiving a letter from a courtesan
Daimonguchi entrance gate and Nakanocho in
Courtesan treating a woman with moxibustion
Samurai crossing the river on the way to Yoshiwara
Two kamuro maids try to drag two samurai to
Oiran courtesan watching a trial of strength
Courtesans relaxing by reading books in front
Customer and courtesan with maid being led by a servant
Courtesan entertaining a customer by playing
Oiran courtesans and maid walking in the pleasure quarters
Oiran courtesan having her hair treated with
Two men and a kamuro walking past a teahouse
An oiran courtesan plying two shojo with sake
The artist Masanobu Okumura painting a folding screen
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