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A sloping orange-red mountain with a single peak rises from the lower-left quadrant of the work, the peak cresting at upper right. The mountain’s base, speckled with trees, is green, while its peak, lined with white show, is mostly brown. A rich blue sky above the mountain is crowded with long, thin, fluffy clouds.

A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

Chinese Beauties at a Banquet, 1788/90

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)", 1919

Watanabe Shozaburo

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi rokkasen): Bishop Henjo, c. 1798

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

A Picture of Prosperity: America (Amerika shin no zu), 1861

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Waitress Ohisa of the Takashimaya, c. 1792/93

Katsukawa Shunchô

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Okitsu: Kiyomigaseki and Seiken Temple (Kiyomigaseki, Seikenji)—No. 18, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

Earthenware plate decorated with colorful flower and grape border on the rim and central figurative scene depicting a fashionably dressed couple in the front with a barber serving a man at the back. The scene has an inscription "LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE" with five more lines at the bottom.

Commodore Perry, c. 1853/54

A color woodblock print of a blue river with Mt. Fuji in the distant background, a figure in a boat in the river as well as a fgure with a horse on the shoreline

Tama River in Musashi Province (Bushu Tamagawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hydrangea and Swallow, from an untitled series of large flowers, c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e.

The Waka Murasaki Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Waka Murasaki), from a series of Genji parodies, c. 1710

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Geisha Style (geisha fū) from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tōsei fūzoku tsū), 1801

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)", 1921

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Egret Standing in Rain, 1928

Ohara Koson

A work made of silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with bands of 1:1 plain gauze weave with weft-float faced 1:3 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts.

Fragment (From an Obi), Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)/ Shôwa period (1926–1989)/ Heisei period (1989–present), 20th century

A work made of silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, twill weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts.

Fragment (From an Obi), Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)/ Shôwa period (1926–1989)/ Heisei period (1989–present), 20th century

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hilltop View from Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin sakaue tenbo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1856

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; kappazuri?.

Courtesan Tying Obi, 19th century

Nagamine

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Kawasaki: The Rokugo Ferry (Kawasaki, Rokugo no watashi)—No. 3, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

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