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Yoshiwara edochō, Okumura Masanobu - Ukiyo e print

Yoshiwara edochō, Okumura Masanobu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a brothel in the Yoshiwara pleasure district of Edo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Modern reproduction. Forms part of: J... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie shin-yoshiwara sōjimai no zu

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie shin-yoshiwara sōjimai no zu

Print shows many women gathering together, some still entertaining men, in a large open hall in the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no zu

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no ...

Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo, possibly during the lantern festival, with teahouses and shops lining the street. Titl... More

Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no zu

Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no zu

Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo, possibly during the lantern festival, with teahouses and shops lining the street.

The dance of death / Gordon Ross.

The dance of death / Gordon Ross.

Illustration shows, in a banner across the top, men and women dancing at a dance club or nightclub; the banner breaks at the center and the women fall into prostitution, separating the bottom of the cartoon int... More

Hanami zuki - Torii Kiyonaga - Public domain  drawing

Hanami zuki - Torii Kiyonaga - Public domain drawing

Print shows two women and a child outside a building with cherry trees in blossom. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: ... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukie shin yoshiwara no zu

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukie shin yoshiwara no zu

Print show pedestrians walking through the yoshiwara (or red-light district). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Horizontal Chuba... More

Shin-yoshiwara nakanochō haru no kei Andō Hiroshige

Shin-yoshiwara nakanochō haru no kei Andō Hiroshige

Print shows many women and a few men on the Nakanochō Boulevard in the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo, during spring, with teahouses and shops lining the street and a large cherry tree in bloom. Titl... More

Shinpan ukie shin yoshiwara ōmonuchi no zu

Shinpan ukie shin yoshiwara ōmonuchi no zu

Print shows a bird's-eye view of men and women passing through the gate between buildings in the New Yoshiwara. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Yoshiwara sakura no zu Andō Hiroshige

Yoshiwara sakura no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows women and men among blossoming cherry trees at Yoshiwara. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Edo meisho : ... More

The white slave / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

The white slave / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Charles F. Murphy, in an alley in the red light district, illuminated by a red streetlamp labeled "Tammany", forcing a woman labeled "N.Y. State Democracy" to get out of the alley and on to ... More

Hanami, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Ukiyo e print

Hanami, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women and a young female student or attendant at the Yoshiwara looking at cherry blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005... More

Yoshiwara yuki no asa Andō Hiroshige

Yoshiwara yuki no asa Andō Hiroshige

Print shows a snow covered community in the morning with porters carrying sedan chairs, probably containing male customers, down the main street leading away from the gated entrance to the yoshiwara. Title and ... More

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Painting shows a bird's-eye view of travelers on roadway outside the new Yoshiwara on the Tōkaidō Road, with a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken... More

For sale / Art Young. - Drawing. Public domain image.

For sale / Art Young. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows, on the left, a woman walking on a street in the "Red Light District", there is a policeman standing on the corner watching her; on the right, several men are sitting in chairs in front of pl... More