Landscape Illustrations and Fragmentary Text from Chapter Thirteen of the Imperial Commentary on the Buddhist Canon (Tripitaka) Commissioned by Emperor Taizong (r. 976-997)
Chinese
Lucretia, 1625 - 1713
Carlo Maratti
Poet Kodai no Kimi (Ko-ōgimi) from page 8B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition, 1558 - 1637
Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦
Poet Mibu no Tadamine (active c.898-920) from page 15A of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition, 1558 - 1637
Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦
Poet Ono no Komachi (active c. 833-857) from page 12B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition, 1558 - 1637
Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦
Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Ichikawa Mononosuke, from the series Ehon butai ogi, active 1765 - 1792
Designed by Ippitsusai Bunchō
Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, from the series Ehon butai ogi, active 1765 - 1792
Designed by Ippitsusai Bunchō
New Year Print: The Monkey King (Bi Ma Wen), with a Small Monkey on His Shoulder, Recieving the Seal of an Official (a Red Seal Reading "Feng Hou Gua Yin")
Chinese
Parody of the Nō Play Hakurakuten (Two Figures Standing in Boats: Chinese Scholar Holding an Ink Orchid Painting and Japanese Girl Holding a Harunobu Bijin Pillar Print Scroll), 1725-1770
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信
Preparatory drawing for woodblock print triptych The Interior Works of a German Battleship, active c. 1874
Unsen 雲僊
Feasibility Plan in the North Advances in 1929-30, Series of four double-page photomontages printed in 30 Days Illustrated Monthly, no. 11 (Winter 1929), pp. 34-41, 1895 - 1938
Gustavs Klucis (Klutsis)
Alpha and Omega; verso: partial tracing of image on the recto, 1860 - 1942