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Woodblock print of Mount Fuji with red slopes, white clouds, green hillside and diagonal rain streaks below the summit.

Shower below the summit

Katsushika Hokusai, 1826

Poster of four women in work coats with a white horse, rake and vegetable basket, lettered 'The Girl on the Land Serves the N

The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Service Committee /

Edward Penfield, 1918

Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono in a room with a sea view, a folding screen, and lacquer boxes.

A brothel in Shinagawa: first page of a Shunga set

Isoda Koryusai, 1774

Woodblock print of an arched wooden bridge over a river with boats, people crossing, and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Beneath Mannen Bridge, Fukagawa

Katsushika Hokusai, 1826

Triptych woodblock print of women in kimono inside a green mosquito net with red valances and bedding.

Woman with a visitor

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1797

Woodblock print of a crowded Edo-period street with townhouses, lanterns, and figures in kimono, with fields beyond.

Perspective picture of famous places of Japan: Nakanocho in Shin-Yoshiwara

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1775

Woodblock print of a large blue wave curling over boats, with snow-capped Mount Fuji visible in the distance under a grey sky

The great wave off shore of Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai, 1826

Woodblock print of figures in kimono inside a room with hanging netting, a folding iris screen, and tea utensils on the floor

Outside the mosquito netting

Torii Kiyomasu, 1716

Hand-colored Japanese print of people on a veranda viewing cherry blossoms, with a pond, pagoda and hillside path.

Viewing cherry blossoms from the bank of a pond at Ueno

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1725

Woodblock print of two women in a boat on water, one playing a lute, under a crescent moon and clouds.

Genji ukifune

Okumura Masanobu, 1742

Woodblock print of a long boat with a thatched cabin among reeds, with Mount Fuji and flying cranes in the background.

Shibori of Jōshū

Katsushika Hokusai, 1900

Woodblock print of figures in a wooden pavilion, with boats on the sea and a rising sun beyond the veranda.

Shinagawa tsukimi no keshiki

Nishimura Shigenaga, 1726

Japanese woodblock print of figures on a shore beside a red sun, rocks, monkeys, a palanquin and distant islands.

Futamigaura

Katsukawa Shunsen, 1804

Poster of six smiling sailors in different uniforms with battleships and national flags, urging enlistment in the navy.

All together! Enlist in the Navy

Henry Reuterdahl, 1917

Japanese woodblock print of samurai and travelers on a path past a thatched house, bamboo, and a wooden bridge.

Act six [of the Kanadehon Chushingura]

Utagawa Sadahide, 1830

Japanese print of a dark cormorant diving into water beside two pale herons, with small fish and a misty grey sky.

Cormorant and white heron

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789

Brown-toned Japanese triptych of kimono-clad women beneath branches, with figures in clouds and calligraphic inscriptions.

Triptych of viewing maple leaves

Ishikawa Toyonobu, 1744

Woodblock print of a seated woman with a pipe and a kneeling man in an interior with a folding screen and birds.

Page 13

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Japanese woodblock print of six figures in traditional robes, a reclining woman in a floral kimono at center with seated men

Six poets

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1795

Woodblock print of a Shinto Kagura performance in a shrine hall, with seated audience, drum and paper streamers.

Perspective picture of the Daidai Kagura performance at the two sites, Ise Shrine

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1767

Woodblock print of a man with a sake cup and two women in kimono seated on tatami beside a sliding door.

A drinking party

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1716

Japanese woodblock print of a crowded market in front of a red temple gate with guardian statues and a pagoda.

Perspective picture of the market at Kinryūzan Temple

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1792

Woodblock print of women bathing and dressing in a Japanese bathhouse with wooden tubs, a child, and patterned red panels.

Bathhose women

Torii Kiyonaga, 1780

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman and a child lying on the floor with an open book in a traditional room.

A mother and son [her son doesn't want her to read]

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1716

Woodblock print of porters carrying palanquins across a rough blue river, with Mount Fuji rising in the distance.

Fuji at Kanaya on the Tōkaidō

Katsushika Hokusai, 1833

Woodblock print of a kimono-clad procession with a palanquin and parasol, townhouses and a shrine among pines beyond.

Brocade parade of the eastern capital: a view of Hachiman Shrine at Ichigaya

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1860

Woodblock print of a lantern-lit interior hall with kimono-clad women and attendants on a matted floor, in orange and green.

Perspective picture of cleaning out in Shin-Yoshiwara

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1770

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji reflected in a lake, with a thatched village, pine trees and a rowing boat in the foreground.

The water's surface at Misaka in Koshu

Katsushika Hokusai, 1832

Triptych woodblock print of three kabuki actors in patterned costumes with swords against a dark, cloudy night sky.

Arashi Rikan as Mashiba Hisatsugu [left]; Nakamura Utaemon as Hakusho, Gosaku who is actually Ishikawa Goeimon [cente…

Ryūsai Shigeharu, 1830

Colour woodblock print of townspeople walking a riverside railing beside a busy waterway filled with boats.

A view of Nakazu

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1772