Ukiyo-e Prints Reflect the Popular Culture of Edo

Suzuki Harunobu, Boy on a Hobby Horse, 1765-1770 (Hagi Uragami Museum)

Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo meisho Ōdenma-chō Daimaru gofukudana no zu, 1847-1852 (Hagi Uragami Museum)

(Left) Keisai Eisen, The Favorite Things of Eight Beauties Today: Drinking of a Toss Loser, 1823 (Center) Kitagawa Utamaro, Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogi-ya and Her Attendants, 1796 (Right) Tōshūsai Sharaku, Actor Segawa Kikunojō III as Tanabe Bunzō's Wife Oshizu, 1794 (Hagi Uragami Museum)

Katsushika Hokusai, 36 Views of Mount Fuji: A Thunderstorm below the Summit, 1831-1834 (Hagi Uragami Museum)

(Left) Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Bushi zukushi hanjimono, 1847-1852 (Right) Utagawa Hiroshige I, Sokkyo kagebosi zukushi : Irifune / Chawan chadai, 1830-1843 (Hagi Uragami Museum)

(Left) Utagawa Hiroshige II, American, French, Chinese 1860 (Right) Katsushika Hokusai, One Hundred Ghost Stories, The Dish Mansion 1831-1832 (Hagi Uragami Museum)