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  • The temple Meguno Fudō. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige III, ca. 1870.
  • Boys playing at dentistry (?) Colour woodcut by Hiroshige III, ca. 1880.
  • Daimyō's procession to Edo fording a river. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige II, 1863.
  • Six cranes flying upward above a breaking wave. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1858.
  • A sumo contest in the precinct of Ekōin temple in Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1849/1850.
  • Seven blind masseurs fighting: a scene at Iwamurata. Coloured woodcut by Eisen and Hiroshige, 1839 (?).
  • A sumo contest in the precinct of Ekōin temple in Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1849/1850.
  • Title page for the series of thirty-six views of the Eastern capital, Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige.
  • Mount Fuji seen from Kinegawa, a village on the far east side of Edo. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1852.
  • Mount Fuji seen through the waves at Manazato no hama, in the Izu Penisula, south of the mountain. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1852.
  • Fuji seen from Kazusa province across the bay from Edo; a woman is led on horseback through a shinto gate. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1858.
  • A man and woman (?) approach a shop entrance; a kneeling shopkeeper greets them while an assistant holds out a hat for them to view. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige III, ca. 1880.
  • A horse-drawn public carriage crosses Kyōbashi bridge in central Tokyo, towards Ginza: a rickshaw moves in the opposite direction; mount Fuji is visible in the background. Colour woodcut by Hiroshige III, 1874.
  • A man with filarial elephantiasis, being helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling, approaches a temple; two women are shocked at the sight. Coloured woodcut after Hokusai by Hiroshige II, 1859.
  • A scene inside an inn: left, a guest is waited on by a servant girl bringing food, and by a blind masseur; right, in another room, geishas apply cosmetics to their faces. Reprint (ca. 1900) of coloured woodcut by Hiroshige, 1834.
  • Japanese market scene: vendors are shown selling combs and hair ornaments, sandals, cloth, rice paste cakes and wigs. Colour woodcut by Shigenobu, 1865.
  • Vegetables available from a grocer are laid out on a green background. Colour woodcut by Shigenobu, 1866.
  • Title page to the set of exact reproductions of forty-eight hawks. Colour woodcut by Sugakudō, 1858.