JAPAN: CHUSHINGURA
JAPAN: CHUSHINGURA.
JAPAN: ACTORS, c1795.
JAPANESE SAMURAI.
JAPAN: WOMEN, c1766.
SOGA NO TAIMEN.
JAPAN: ACTOR, c1800.
JAPAN: SAMURAI & STUDENT.
JAPAN: KABUKI ACTORS, 1795.
JAPANESE COURTESANS, c1772.
JAPAN: SAMURAI.
JAPAN: KABUKI DANCER, 1758.
KUSUNOKI MASASHIGE
TOMOE GOZEN (1157?-1247?).
KUNIYOSHI: TAMETOMO, 1852.
ARASHI KICHISABURO III.
HARUNOBU: DYING THREAD.
JAPAN: PROCESSION, 1860.
KUNIYOSHI: WOMAN, c1845.
HARUNOBU: WHISPER.
JAPAN: COURTESANS, c1792.
JAPAN: KABUKI ACTOR, c1778
The horse show - Battle in front of a palace by Mitsunaga Tokiwa, active 12th century.
The house of Kinpeiro in New Yoshiwara by Yoshitora Utagawa, active 1850-1870.
ca. 1795
THE CANTERBURY TALES.
JAPAN: HUNTING, c1850.
JAPAN: SAMURAI, 1734.
HIROSHIGE: CRYSTAL RIVER.
KUNIYOSHI: HILL TOP, c1836.
MORONOBU: LOVERS, c1685.
JAPAN: SAMURAI, c1660.
JAPAN: INARI SHRINE, 1780s.
JAPAN: GEISHA, c1825.
Totsuka' by Hokusai Katsushika
JAPAN: GEISHA, c1730.
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Two actors, Kikunojo Segawa in the role of Nuregami no Chogoro and Shikan Nakamura Shikan Hanaregoma no Chokichi.
JAPAN: GARDEN, c1825.
JAPAN: SEASCAPE.
MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY
JAPAN: THEATER.
HOKUSAI: ACROBATS, 1817.
KUNIYOSHI: COURT LADY.
JAPAN: ARCHERY
MINAMOTO YORIMITSU
The courtesan Shigeoka of Okamoto-ya : The courtesan Sugatano of Sugataebi-ya : The courtesan Hanamurasaki of Tama-ya.
THE FESTIVAL OFFERINGS:
Kanagawa by Hokusai Katsushika
Moon viewed through the heart by Yoshitoshi Taiso
Tale of Genji.
Early Spring' by Harunobu Suzuki
JAPAN: SAMURAI SPORT.
JAPAN: PAPERMAKING, 1798.
JAPAN: GOD OF HAPPINESS.
JAPAN: SUMO WRESTLER.
JAPAN: ROOSTERS, 1859.
JAPAN: GEISHAS, 1785.
Woodcut, colour. The Courtesans Matsura and Yosoi of the Matsuba-ya.
JAPAN: BATH.
JAPAN: GEISHA.
also known as The Great Wave
Act eleven [of the Chushingura].
JAPAN: LANDSCAPE, c1600.
Author of The Tale of Genji
Edo period (1615 1868)
JAPAN: AMERICANS, 1861.
JAPAN: EATING RICE.
The council of the rulers and the elders against the tribe of ye Americanites
The 14th century Samurai Kusonki and his followers besieged in the castle Akasaka
KUNIYOSHI: FISHING, c1840.
HIROSHIGE: CARICATURE.
HIROSHIGE: AMERICAN WOMAN.
KUNISADA: WOMAN, c1845.
JAPAN: MILITARY TRAINING.
JAPAN: FOREIGN SOLDIERS.
JAPAN: ART.
Grasshopper eating a persimmon by Hokusai Katsushika
Muff Lawler's Barroom.
JAPAN: BANK, 18TH CENTURY.
MOUNTED SAMURAI.
PROLOGUE: THE KNIGHT.
CANTERBURY TALES, 1490.
HIROSHIGE: MOUNT FUJI, c1850.
ca. 1794
from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyo kiran)
HIROSHIGE: LANDSCAPE.
HOKUSAI: HANGING BRIDGE.
Kayoi Komachi
JAPAN: RESTAURANT, c1820.
The warriors Kumagai Naozane and Tairo no Atsumori on horseback.
Battle at Kawanakajima by Yoshikazu Utagawa
UTAMARO: THE WANTON TYPE.
JAPAN: SUMO WRESTLERS.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1920.
CHERRY BLOSSOMS, c1914.
JAPAN: ACTOR, c1794.
JAPAN: FORTUNE TELLER.
Paolo and Francesca.
mid-19th century
Drum and Eboshi Hat Representing the 'Aoi' Chapter of The Story of Genji
in 'A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road'
19th century
PERRY'S EXPEDITION TO JAPAN
KIYONOBO: JAPANESE DANCER.
HARUNOBU: WOMAN, c1766.
UTAMARO: YOUNG WOMAN.
from the series Scenes in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)
JAPAN: BATHHOUSE, c1865.
CHAUCER.
THE YEOMAN, 1484.
BOCCACCIO's 'DECAMERON'.
THE SQUIRE.
Jews in Trent, 1493.
THE WIFE OF BATH.
CHAUCER: THE PRIORESS.
JAPAN: PROCESSION, 1626.
MINAMOTO YOSHITSUNE
A Monk holding keys to the cellar.
Year of the snake.
JAPAN: WOMAN IN GARDEN.
Otomo no kuronushi by Hokusai Katsushika
JAPAN: BATH, c1850.
JAPAN: TOKUGAWA SOLDIERS.
UTAMARO: MOONLIGHT REVELRY.
布晒し
MINAMOTO NO YORIMITSU
SASAKI TAKATSUNA (1160-1214).
Marking the new site for the capital at Hyogo by Yoshikazu Utagawa
12th month
ca. 1734
Courtesan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, holding a scroll and chewing on the end of a brush by Utamaro Kitagawa
Woodcut colour. A procession of flowers before Mount Fuji.
Woodcut, colour. Uzuki, The Fourth month by Toshikata Mizuno.
The hour of the dog by Utamaro Kitagawa
JAPAN: PORTERS.
HIROSHIGE: LANDSCAPE, c1840.
Scene from a Soga play by Yoshikazu Utagawa
JAPAN: SAMURAI IN ARMOR.
JAPAN: CASTLE, c1600.
A scene from William Shakespeare's play King Henry VIII
Children being adopted in the Inferior Court of the Great Baliwick.
16th Century woodcut shows various aspects of man's nature, with intelligence at the top.
The Great Wave of Kanagawa.
White Rain at Shono
Festival at Atsuta Temple
Morning Mist
Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama (50th Station of the Tokaido)
Evening Cherry Blossoms at Gotenyama
A View of Late Spring at Masaki
The Year's First Song of the Cuckoo at Tsukudajima
Tenmangu Shrine at Kameido in Snow
Vesper Bells at Ikegami
Boats Returning to Gyotoku
Clearing Weather at Shibaura
Wild Geese at Haneda
Akabane no Yuki
Morning Cherry Blossoms at Shin-Yoshiwara
from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by a Nurse (Hyakunin isshu ubaga etoki)
a Village in the Mountains Formerly Called Miyajiyama
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
JAPAN: WHALING, 1859.
SINO JAPANESE WAR, 1895.
JAPAN: SWORDSMITH, c1500.