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Portrait of Toyozumi of Chojiya House, Writing a Letter
Eiju

Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)

Omidaijo Fujiwara Tadahiro

blade, mid-17th century; mounting, 19th century

Evening Snow at Banto
Torii Kiyonaga
ca. 1779

Interior View
Katsukawa Shunchō
ca. 1788

Display of Treasures at Mimeguri Shrine (Mimeguri jinja no onkaichō)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1799

A Doll Representing a Boy Playing a Flute
Torii Kiyonaga
ca. 1780

Portrait of the Courtesan Nioteru of the Ogiya, with Her Two Attendants Namiji and Aō-mi
Torii Kiyonaga
ca. 1785

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
19th century

The Courtesan Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya Brothel (Ōgiya Hanaōgi), from the series Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as Six Floral Immortals (Seirō bijin rokkasen)
Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之
ca. 1794 (Kansei 6)

Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868

Ono no Komachi: Number Two (Sono ni), from the series Stylish Parodies of the Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū yatsushi rokkasen)
Chōbunsai Eishi
1790s

Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana)

Japanese

blade, probably late 18th–early 19th century; mounting, 19th century