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Woodblock print of two sailboats on the Sumida River at dusk, with barges, a green embankment and distant mountains.

View of Sumida River

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1838

Woodblock print of a samurai with a drawn sword and a kneeling woman holding a tea cup, with a red sun over waves.

Act two [of the Chūshingura]

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1815

Four-panel 1918 American wartime poster with photographs of marines, a funeral procession, a truck of men, and an interior sc

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Unknown artist, 1918

Woodblock print of three figures on a veranda: two musicians in wide hats play shamisen while a seated figure holds a vessel.

Three actors

Okumura Masanobu, 1716

Woodblock print of three samurai in combat beside a red wall, bamboo, and a lantern marked with the character for loyalty.

Epilogue [of the Chūshingura]

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1815

Four-panel 1918 WWI propaganda poster with photos of soldiers, artillery, a railway gun, and gas-masked troops.

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Unknown artist, 1918

Woodblock print of a pheasant standing in grass with two swallows flying above, with Japanese calligraphy columns.

Swallows and pheasant

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

Japanese woodblock print of three figures on a red bridge by the sea, one man raising a sword, a woman in a patterned kimono.

Act three [of the Chūshingura]

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1815

Monochrome Japanese woodblock print of a standing woman in a patterned kimono and a crouching fierce-faced man with a sword.

Toragaishi

Unknown artist, 1716

Navy recruitment poster from 1917 showing a woman in a navy uniform and cap beside orange text reading I want YOU for the Nav

I want you for the Navy Apply any recruiting station or postmaster /

Howard Chandler Christy, 1917

Japanese woodblock print of samurai and figures on a veranda beside rice paddies, by Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1815.

Act six [of the Chūshingura]

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1815

Two-panel WWI bond poster: left shows US Treasury building under a gold eagle, right shows a flag in a blue circle with 4th L

Wear your Fourth Liberty Loan honor button--4th Liberty Loan bonds

Unknown artist, 1918

Woodblock print of travelers and porters on a shore with a pine-covered island, choppy sea, and Mount Fuji in the distance.

New edition of a view of Enoshima in Sagami Province

Tamagawa Shūchō, 1789

Two-sheet Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono in an interior with cherry blossoms, a floral screen and a child.

Flower performance

Toyohara Kunichika, 1862

Dark 1917 American wartime poster with a harbor ship silhouette and orange text urging food conservation for soldiers and all

Get behind our soldiers, sailors, and our allies Send them the most food possible in the least shipping space--Do it…

Unknown artist, 1917

Woodblock print of crowds walking toward a red-pillared temple with a tiled roof, framed by pine trees.

New edition of a front view of San'enzan Zojōji in Shiba

Tamagawa Shūchō, 1789

Monochrome woodblock print of two women and a child in kimono, one holding a shadow puppet and one playing a shamisen indoors

Shadow puppets

Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1716

Wartime poster with helmeted soldiers in a trench and red slogan 'Fats are fuel for fighters' urging baking, boiling, and bro

Fats are fuel for fighters Bake, boil, and broil more - fry less

Unknown artist, 1917

Japanese woodblock triptych of women in kimono preparing a festival interior with an Ebisu figure, lanterns and pine branches

Festival of the god of good fortune, Ebisu

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800

Monochrome woodblock print of two women in kimono, one gesturing toward a tightrope walker in the upper left.

Parody of the Chinese sage Tieqiao

Okumura Masanobu, 1711

Wartime poster showing a sliced loaf of bread and knife with the slogan 'Save a loaf a week - Help win the war'.

Save a loaf a week - help win the war

Unknown artist, 1917

Triptych woodblock print of three kabuki actors in costume with swords, among pine trees and bamboo, by Utagawa Kunisada.

Actors in the role of Narutonomae, the role of Tairo no Munemorikyo, [and] the role of Akugenta Yoshihira

Utagawa Kunisada, 1847

Woodblock print of women and children catching fireflies with fans near reeds, a bridge, and a stone lantern.

Catching fireflies

Katsukawa Shunsen, 1810

Wartime poster reading Food will win the war, urging meatless, wheatless and porkless days under the U.S. Food Administration

Food will win the war - We observe meatless days, wheatless days, porkless days, and carry out all conservation rules…

Unknown artist, 1917

Triptych of kabuki actors by Utagawa Kunisada, with an umbrella-holding figure, a red-robed figure, and a woman reading a scr

An actor in the role of Hachiman Taro Yoshiie : An actor in the role of Abe Sadato : An actor in the role of Sodehagi…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1847

Woodblock print of women in kimono doing household tasks in a wooden house with shoji screens and snow outside.

House of Ichizuke

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1804

Woodblock print of a mounted traveler in a hat passing a roadside teahouse with pine trees and a servant beside him.

Shirasuka

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1804

Colored print of Itsukushima Shrine with red-roofed halls on water, a torii gate, boats, and green hills behind.

A perspective picture of Itsukushima Shrine

Utagawa Toyoharu, 1767

Poster of three women in headscarves pulling a wooden implement across a stony field, with the text Save Wheat.

Will you help the women of France? Save wheat

Edward Penfield, 1918

British 1915 recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in military uniform with a quote urging men to enlist today.

Lord Kitchener says: Enlist to-day

Unknown artist, 1915