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Ink drawing of a grinning long-haired ghost with a smaller pale face and clawed hand beside it, on aged paper.

A Spirit from the Hyaku Monogatari

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese triptych woodblock print of kabuki actors with swords, blossoming plum branches, and a woman beside a lacquer chest.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Danjuro VIII ja Ichikawa Kodanji IV näytelmässä Mimasu no Date-zome (Upea näyttelijän viitta)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1852

Woodblock print of a couple embracing under a green mosquito net, with a sleeping figure inside and a pine-decorated screen b

Lovers Beneath a Mosquito Net

Suzuki Harunobu, 18th century

Woodblock print of a pink iris in bloom with buds and curving green leaves against a pale and blue background.

Iris

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1840s

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue striped kimono holding a folding fan and hand mirror against a red patterned background.

Woman with a Folding Fan and Hand Mirror, from the series Sensuous Young Women of Contemporary Times

Utagawa Kunisada, 1838

Woodblock print of a leaping tiger above a boy in red and yellow robes beside a pine tree and waterfall.

Yang Xiang (Yō Kō), from the series A Child’s Mirror of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshi kō dōji kag…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1843

Woodblock print of tall sea stacks with pine trees, rowboats with figures, and sailboats on the horizon under a pale sky.

Upright Landscape

Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th century

Woodblock print of figures strolling among irises near a tea house with lanterns, under a leaning pine, in blue tones.

View of Iris Gardens at Horikiri

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1861

Triptych woodblock print of Yokohama waterfront with Western buildings, flags, sailing ships, carriages and pedestrians.

View of the Seafront in Yokohama (Yokohama Kagandori no fūkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige III, 5th month, 1870

Two-panel screen with four painted fans of landscapes, a boat, a mountain, and a figure on gold ground.

Four fan paintings mounted on a screen; "Frog on Lotus Leaf", "Scholar in a House", "Landscape", and "Boat and Rock"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Hanging scroll of a seated court woman in a flowing robe beside willow trees and a distant mountain, muted ochre background.

Yang Kuei-fei

Chobunsai Eishi

Ink sketch of hairy legendary figures, one sweeping water with a broom, others floating above rippling waves on tan paper.

Legendary beings

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink drawing of a bearded man in a patterned robe and tall dark cap, reclining on the ground.

Seated man with nobleman's cap

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono adjusting her hair, with an inset of porters and a red clock tower.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Dragon

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman with a parasol in windblown snow, beside a scroll and poem cards with calligraphy.

Selected Scenes from One Poem Each by One Hundred Poets: Poem by Emperor Kōkō

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print with a steamship in a harbor above and a kabuki actor with red face makeup and a woman below.

Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Inspired by Famous Pictures

Utagawa Kunisada, 1864

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono with a blue hood, a child with a bird, and a plum garden inset.

Six Poetic Sages as Young Women at the Plum Garden at Kameido

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Hanging scroll of a courtesan in a crane-patterned blue kimono gazing into a hand mirror beside a lacquer stand, with floral

A courtesan looking into a hand mirror

Katsukawa Shunshō

Woodblock print of a woman with gold hairpins and a child with cards, a red clock tower and crowd at a window above.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Goat

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman reading a letter while an attendant combs her hair, with cherry blossoms in an ins

Geisha with a Hairdresser

Utagawa Kunisada

Hanging scroll of a red thunder god with flowing drapery amid dark swirling ink clouds on a pale background.

Thunder god

Katsushika Hokusai

Woman holding a fan

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Boy seated on a willow branch gazing at Mount Fuji above misty terraced fields, with a woven basket hanging below.

Boy Viewing Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a kimono tending a brazier with chopsticks, with a teapot and calligraphy beside her.

Tyttö hiilloksen ääressä (syksyllä), kuvan yli kulkevien säerivien kuvaamana

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Women in kimono on a seaside veranda with lanterns, a folding screen and sailing boats on the sea beyond.

Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

Six-panel screen of rural figures at a thatched farmhouse with Mount Fuji and gold clouds behind.

Country Scenes and Mount Fuji; one of a pair with F1902.49

Katsushika Hokusai

Six-panel screen of a gold-flecked rural scene with villagers working by a river, a pine tree, and a boat.

Country Scenes and Mount Fuji; one of a pair with F1902.48

Katsushika Hokusai

Hanging scroll of a man in a dark hat carrying a laughing child on his back beside a small dog, with bamboo at right.

Two Entertainers Strolling on the New Year

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Two-panel screen with a bird on plum branch, a man painting a torii gate, a dragon in clouds, and scholars.

Various Scenes

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Ink line drawing of a seated woman in a green kimono gesturing with one hand, her hair pinned with a yellow comb.

Woman facing the right, beckoning

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono washing white cloth in a stream, with sparrows flying overhead and a crab near

Mizu. Fuzoku-ga

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Woodblock print of two women in kimono arranging flowers in an interior, with a bird on a screen and bamboo outside.

Flower Arranging

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1769