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Woodblock print of a courtier in blue robe with a fan on a veranda, gazing at a full moon beside a poem cartouche.

月百姿かしかまし野もせにすたく虫の音よ我たになかくものをこそおもへ

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Color woodblock print of Japanese soldiers charging up a hillside, an officer on horseback raising a sword under a rising sun

日本大勝利成歓ノ戦ニ清兵ヲ破

Yōsai Nobukazu, 1894

Woodblock print of a court lady reading a letter by a silk curtain, with attendants, a garden stream and a painted screen.

夢浮橋

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a floral kimono holding a baby, with a night bridge and fireworks scene inset above.

東都名所両国橋之涼

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a checkered robe, with a smaller inset portrait and calligraphy above.

市村家橘

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1862

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a chrysanthemum-patterned kimono holding a fan beside yellow flowering branches.

おそめ瀬川路孝

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of armored samurai wading through a castle moat toward a gate, with a samurai in red and green at the entranc

瓢軍談五十四場十二ひゃうたんの相図に寄手水門より討入稲葉山落城

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Japanese woodblock print of a samurai with drawn sword confronting a seated man, with calligraphy panel and round vignette ab

誠忠義臣名々鏡ま早野和助常成

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese woodblock print of a night market with red lanterns, a full moon, and two figures on a balcony above a crowd.

浅草年之市

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a seated man by moonlit reeds with two armored warriors watching from the left under a full moon.

月百姿淮水月伍子胥

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887

Multi-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in varied costumes arranged in framed portrait cartouches.

〔役者似顔絵双六〕

Toyohara Kunichika, 1868

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in striped kimono applying makeup from a box, on a red and purple floral backgroun

〔御存白石噺明治１３年１月上演新冨座〕

Yōshū Chikashige, 1880

Woodblock print of a woman at a wooden screen and a man in a plaid robe holding a child, with a poem cartouche above.

十郎兵衛・おゆミ

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of two women in a room with a potted pine and a screen showing flowering branches and a bird.

本銀丁福屋マンキチ・本石丁升や小美代

Toyohara Kunichika, 1881

Japanese woodblock print of travelers on a coastal path past green hills, pine trees and the sea beyond.

白須賀

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Japanese woodblock print of two women punting a boat under a blossoming cherry tree above blue waves.

風流六花撰ノ内

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of two women in kimono walking beneath a blossoming cherry tree, one pointing ahead.

四季の詠隅田堤のさくら

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1894

Woodblock print of a seated samurai with sword beside a morning glory scroll and calligraphy, with shadow figures on the wall

源氏雲浮世絵合朝顔

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue patterned kimono holding an umbrella, with a clock tower and street lamp behind her.

東京名所六ケ撰の内吉原

Toyohara Kunichika, 1889

Woodblock print of a samurai in red and green armor on horseback with banners, plus a small river landscape and text panel.

書画五拾三駅三河豊橋往昔戦争

Utagawa Yoshitora

Japanese woodblock print of a barefoot samurai with a drawn sword under willow branches and a moon, with poem text above.

小倉擬百人一首

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese woodblock print of three women in a room with a vase of red maple branches and a hanging poem scroll.

現時五十四情第七号

Toyohara Kunichika

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a dark robe holding a staff, with a large white-fringed hat and text panels.

二番組千組

Utagawa Yoshitora, 1858

Woodblock print of a man in a patterned red kimono and white hood beside a snowy pine tree at night.

（明烏花濡衣）

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a checkered kimono and striped obi, with a seated monk holding a skull in an inset pan

妙でんす十六利勘貧須盧損者

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Polychrome woodblock print of women in patterned kimono seated before a bamboo-patterned screen with paper lanterns.

江戸風俗十二ケ月之内十二月諸侯之奥年忘之図

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889

Woodblock print of armored samurai marching past pine trees and banners, with snow-capped Mount Fuji in the background.

瓢軍談五十四場五十四大尾久吉公目出度小田原を凱陣し給ふ

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a yellow fan, with Japanese calligraphy beside her.

忠孝加々見山

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors: one seated in blue robes with a fan and sword, one reclining in striped kimono.

番頭与九郎片岡十蔵・玉嶋逸当実ハ日本駄右衛門関三十郎・娘おなみ実ハ弁天小僧菊之助市村羽左衛門・鳶の者六吉嵐吉六・若従四十八実ハ南郷力丸中村芝翫

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1862

Japanese woodblock print of a rider in blue robes on a dark horse, with mounted archers and attendants in a roped arena.

千代田之御表犬追物

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897