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context: painting > prints

Subjects

Don't take this as meaning that there were no other subjects, but these were the very major subject areas.

Beautiful women

Sex

Pleasure quarters

Places

Kabuki

Birds & flowers

Mitate-e

Others might include military scenes, ghosts, Hokusai's manga (cartoons), animals (besides birds) and so on.

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