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Poem by Chunagon Atsutada, from the series “One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print · 1921
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Gon-Chunagon Masafusa (Oe no Masafusa), from the series “One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print · 1921
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Sosei Hoshi, from the series “One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print · 1921
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Lady Akazome Emon Poem by Sosei Hoshi, from the series “One Hundred Poems Explained by a Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)”
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print · 1921
Art Institute of Chicago

Mochi Making
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; surimono · 1845
Art Institute of Chicago

Jito Tenno (Workers Dyeing Cloth), from Hyakunin Isshu ubaga Etoki (The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse)
Katsushika Hokusai
Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color · 1840
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dainagon Tsunenobu (Workers, beside the sea, dyeing cloth), from Hyakunin isshu ubaga etoki (A Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse)
Katsushika Hokusai
Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color · 1839
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A Peasant Crossing a Bridge, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; nagaban · 1835
Art Institute of Chicago

Vanity of Vanities
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print · 1835
Art Institute of Chicago

Sangi Takamura, from the series "One Hundred Poems as Explained by the Wet Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1835
Art Institute of Chicago

Oiwa (Oiwa-san), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

The Mansion of the Plates (Sara yashiki), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

The Laughing Demoness (Warai Hannya), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

Memorial Anniversary (Shunen), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; chuban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

Ehon sakigake (Picture book of Japanese and Chinese fighters), complete in 1 vol.
Katsushika Hokusai
Book; woodblock printed · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

Tokaido Okazaki, Yahagi no bashi (The Archers' Bridge at Okazaki, on the Takaido), from Sho-koku Meiko Kiran (Views of Bridges in Various Provinces)
Katsushika Hokusai
Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color · 1831
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Chrysanthemum and Horsefly, from an untitled series of Large Flowers
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print, oban · 1831
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago

Fuji from Ommayagashi with Twilight over Ryogoku Bridge (Ommayagashi yori ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Kanke, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago

Dainagon Tsunenobufrom the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; yoko ōban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago

Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)"
Katsushika Hokusai
Color woodblock print; oban · 1830
Art Institute of Chicago