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  • A Japanese Samurai warrior in his armour. Watercolour.
  • A fierce samurai holding a spear fighting an effeminate samurai on a bridge. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Two samurai seated. Watercolour, 18--.
  • Samurai directing foot soldiers as they build up shore defences. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora, 1847/1850.
  • Forty-seven samurai assembled. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • The samurai Minamoto Yoshitune serenading Joruri Hime. Colour woodcut, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Samurai in a hail of arrows, sheltering beneath a battle standard, in a desperate last stand. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1857.
  • A riot of samurai, their heads replaced by objects. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1859.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a young man with a samurai sword. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Japan: two samurai in traditional robes with swords. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a young man with a samurai sword. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Japan: a samurai (a 'yakonin') in ceremonial dress. Coloured photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A Japanese woman taking a dog for a walk compared with an effeminate samurai. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A samurai in formal dress with a drawn dagger and an inset of Edo Castle. Colour woodcut.
  • A samurai looks on as a giant frog runs over the menials. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1848.
  • Nagasaki, Japan: the Daion-ji Temple: priest with samurai and attendants. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1868.
  • A samurai in a latrine; outside, his three attendants hold their noses. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A samurai in a latrine; outside, his three attendants hold their noses. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A samurai in a latrine; outside, his three attendants hold their noses. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • This print of a Samurai warrior is sent to you with the compliments of CIBA. One of a series used in the promotion of the antihypertensive agent Ismelin : CIBA.
  • Actors in role: a samurai confronts a Buddhist deity on the back of a giant wild boar. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1860.
  • A samurai on horseback with his retainers ready to launch themselves into a fight; with a snowy urban scene behind. Colour woodcut by Kunimasa III, 1847/1850.
  • A confrontation on a shore, the samurai has leaped from his horse which has fallen in the mud; others fight behind him. Colour woodcut by Yoshitora.
  • Four actors at a shrine: two as menials or attendants: one as a fashionable young samurai and one as a girl. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • The forty-seven samurai washing the head of their slain foe Moronao in a well before presenting it to their lord's grave. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.