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Woodblock print of a Western merchant leaning on a cane beside a blooming miniature cherry tree, with a portrait inset.

American merchant delighted with miniature cherry tree

Utagawa Sadahide and Koizumi Minokichi, 1861

Woodblock print of two women walking a monkey beside a plum tree, with mountains and calligraphy on the left.

Young women walking a monkey under a plum tree

Keisai Eisen, 1824

Japanese print of a red and gold armor helmet beside pink plum blossoms on a rocky cliff, with calligraphy at left.

Helmet on a Plum Tree

Ryūsai Shigeharu, 1828

Back of a Japanese print with vertical handwritten calligraphy in black ink on pale cream paper.

Willow bundle offering (Kezuribana)

Katsushika Hokusai, 1797

Ink print of a white heron standing in water beneath drooping willow branches, with Japanese calligraphy at left.

White heron beneath a willow tree

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 1804

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono holding a fan beside a potted plum tree in bloom.

The actor Onoe Kikugorō and a potted plum tree

Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1818

Multi-panel Japanese woodblock print of women bathing nude in a crowded public bathhouse with wooden tubs and attendants.

Naked bodies compared to irises in hot water, comparing hips to a snow laden willow in hot water

Toyohara Kunichika and Ochiai Yoshiiku, 1868

Woodblock print of three women and a child by a pond beneath weeping willows, one seated on a wooden bench.

Willow garden

Katsukawa Shuncho, 1790

Poster of an oak branch with yellow leaves and acorns above the caption "Only God Can Make a Tree."

"Only God can make a tree"

Stanley Thomas Clough, 1938