A Confucian Paragon: Tang Furen breast-feeding her mother-in-law

Breast-feeding in a dog

A Mother-in-Law (Shūtome)

An Official; a Mother-in-Law

Mother and Her Child in a Mosquito Net

My Mother in a Visiting Room at Her Hospital 2

Princess Yaegaki following the Foxfires in a Scene from the Play Nijūshikō (Nijūshikō kitsunebi no zu)

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion

Kissing Her Breast, No. 9 from Twelve Bouts in the Way of Love (Shikidō torikumi jūniban)

Mother-in-Law Teasing the Bride, from the series "A Collection of Humorous Poems (Haifu yanagidaru)"

Poetess Ono-no-komachi in her old age, sitting on a log

A Cat Interferes in a Dog Fight and Avenges herself against the Dog who Killed her Mother, No. 596 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

Dutch Woman Making a Toast to Her Children (Oranda fujin kyosho aijido no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"

Woman in the Rain at Midnight Driving a Nail into a Tree to Invoke Evil on Her Unfaithful Lover

Sugawara no Michizane Praying for a Storm on Mt. Tenpai, from the series Twenty-Four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan (Kōkoku nijūshikō)

The Mother of the Real Chiyokichi Identifies her Son in Front of Police and Resolves a Case of Mistaken Identity, No. 484 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

A French Woman and Her Daughter in Front of a Mirror, from the series Foreign Merchants' Houses in Yokohama (Yokohama shōka ijin no zu), published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke

Arai Tōkichi Hurls a Rock at his Lover Ohana in a Fit of Jealousy and Strikes her in the Groin, No. 601 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

Okiyo, the Daughter of a Gardener in Muköjima, Meeting with a Foreigner who Desired her to be his Concubine, No. 661 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

The Wife of Sangorō, the Owner of a Noodle Shop in Kawaguchi, Scalds her Husband's Face with Boiling Water, No. 600 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

Matsumoto Ai, a Female Bonesetter in Ōsaka, Using Judo to Drive Away Four Ruffians who Tried to Rape Her, No. 551 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you