180Triptych. Imaginative view of a fête in a Chinese palace. It is a medley of Chinese and Japanese details intended as a take-off upon the treatment of Chinese subjects by the painters of the classic schools.
181The hour of the Boar (9 to 12 P.M.). One of a set illustrating the twelve hours into which the Japanese day is divided.
182Diptych. Women in a nobleman's palace, painting kakemono.
183Yoshiwara beauties on parade.
183aA sheet from the “Washing day” triptych.
184Woman helping a man attire himself in ceremonial dress.
185Woman bending over to see a baby which another woman is nursing while seated before a mirror, arranging her hair.
186Woman talking to a fan-mount vendor.
187Triptych. The persimmon-gatherers.
188Triptych. Procession of a noble lady and women attendants on their way to a temple, bearing offerings.

LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD.

189Triptych. Shadows on the shoji. Illustrations of three effects of sake (rice wine).
190Woman arranging flowers.
191The kitchen. One sheet of a diptych.
192A night excursion. One of Utamaro's most famous prints.

LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD.

193Hairdresser combing a girl's hair.
194Woman with a young boy on her back, watching three puppies at play.

LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED

195Kitao Masanobu drunk with sake at a fête in a daimyo's palace. Part of a triptych.

LENT BY A COLLECTOR

196Woman wearing a black zukin, and a maid bearing a lantern.
197Woman standing on a pier, holding an umbrella, and conversing with a man seated under the canopy of a boat.
198Woman bearing a teacup on a lacquer stand.
199Woman raising the mosquito netting over her bed to read a letter by the light of an andon.
200Three performers in a niwaka, or burlesque theatrical procession, in the streets of the Yoshiwara.
201Woman holding in her mouth a “pokan-pokan”—a musical toy of thin glass which makes a peculiar sound when air is blown through it.
202Triptych. Boating party.
203Triptych. The awabé divers of Isé.
204Triptych. Women and children on a bridge.