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Woodblock print of Kirifuri Falls with white water cascading over rocks, travelers in robes at its base and on a path.

Kirifuri Falls at Mount Kurokami in Shimosuke

Katsushika Hokusai, 1833

Poster of a woman in a nurse's cap with a red cross holding an American flag, with the words The Spirit of America and JOIN.

The spirit of America--Join

Howard Chandler Christy, 1919

Woodblock print of five women in kimono dancing under a large parasol, holding fans and a lantern.

Sumiyoshi dance

Chobunsai Eishi, 1791

Woodblock print of a tall waterfall framed by trees, with travelers in wide hats on a path beside a thatched hut.

Yōrō waterfall in Mino Province

Katsushika Hokusai, 1890

Woodblock print of children gathered at a painting class with brushes, fans, bowls and paper on red mats.

Children in a painting class

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1830

Woodblock print of men tumbling on a moonlit Edo street beneath willow trees, with paper signs and lanterns.

48: Emonzaka, Shin-Yoshiwara

Utagawa Hirokage, 1861

Woman in patterned kimono holding a basin with a morning glory, beside calligraphy and a blue crest banner.

Beauty carrying morning glory in a basin

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1818

Woodblock print of a bald, fierce-faced man in a patterned robe seated on rocks, holding a bowl, with a golden dragon above.

Actor in the role of Nakasaina Sonja

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1847

Japanese woodblock print of two kabuki actors, a standing man with a yellow fan and a kneeling woman in a patterned kimono.

Arashi Hinasuke in the role of Minamoto no Raikō and Iwai Kumesaburō in the role of Yosoi Hime

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1799

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono walking by a river with bushclover, hills and a moon above.

Bushclover at Tamagawa (Six Jewel Rivers)

Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

Woodblock print of a tall courtesan in a black patterned kimono walking with two attendants in pale robes.

The Courtesan Kinshū of Yotsumei-ya

Isoda Koryusai, 1775

Japanese woodblock print of three figures in patterned kimono beside a wooden fence and pine branch.

First scene

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1785

Two helmeted soldiers charge with rifles through snow beside a stone wall, under a 1917 food administration poster slogan.

Victory is a question of stamina--Send - the wheat, meat, fats, sugar--The fuel for fighters United States Food Admin…

Harvey Dunn, 1917

Japanese woodblock print of women, children and a man under yellow parasols walking in falling snow.

Snow

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a standing kabuki actor in a striped robe holding a folding fan, with a red Japanese cartouche.

Ichikawa Yaozō III in the role of Yoshida-ya Kizaemon

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1804

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a drawn sword above his head, with water in the background.

Ichikawa Danzō I

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1776

Woodblock print of a mother and child behind teal mosquito netting, with a standing woman and paper lantern in a Japanese int

Mother and child behind mosquito netting

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Japanese woodblock print of three women in patterned kimono, one standing and two seated, with tall black hats and crane moti

Fūryū onna shikisanba

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1788

Poster of a helmeted soldier silhouetted with a camera before an orange battle scene, titled U.S. Official War Pictures.

U.S. official war pictures

Louis D. Fancher, 1917

Hotei carries a child piggyback through shallow water beside a woman under a willow tree, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Hotei carrying a young girl piggyback

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of two men in patterned kimono crossing a wooden bridge with a servant, river and village behind.

Ichikawa Omezō and Sawamura Gennosuke crossing Azuma Bridge

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1804

Woodblock print of two women standing on a pier beside a seated man, with rippling water and a boat behind them.

A young man at Sanbashi

Torii Kiyonaga, 1780

Woodblock print of a man with a sword and a woman on a veranda, with a rooster and hen and blossoming plum branches.

A young dandy and a woman on a veranda

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Japanese woodblock print of a woman and two children looking into a peep box showing a landscape scene.

Viewing a peep box show

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1801

Japanese woodblock print of a woman reading by a shelf of ceramics, with a small inset of figures on a ladder.

Shaving a monk's head [Daikoku shaving Fukurokujin's head]

Utagawa Kunisada, 1818

Woodblock print of two women in a room, one looking at a hanging scroll of a man, the other kneeling near plum blossoms.

Courtesans admiring a painting by Okumura Masanobu

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Japanese woodblock print of a bearded poet in yellow robes writing by lantern light, with a pheasant, reeds and full moon.

Kakinomoto no hitomaro

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844

Poster showing a worker with an ice hook over cut ice blocks, with workers and an ice house behind, promoting the ice harvest

Help in the harvest ice is needed to save food for the starving people of the world /

Unknown artist, 1910

Woodblock print of two women in kimono washing and stretching cloth beneath a weeping willow tree.

Washing and stretching cloth

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Poster of a nurse in a veil holding an infant beside a large red cross, titled The Greatest Mother in the World.

The greatest mother in the world

A. E. Foringer, 1917