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  • Japanese huts and trees on two outcrops of rock either side of a channel of water. Watercolour.
  • Inosima, a Japanese island, viewed from the village of Katasie on the mainland. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • A woman looking out from a balcony over a landscape with a river. Colour woodcut after Suio Tamura.
  • Saint Francis Xavier holding a crucifix, Japanese converts kneeling in front of him; a church and an altar in the background. Colour lithograph, ca. 1898.
  • A young man pushing a lady in a wheel chair or rickshaw. Engraving, 1771.
  • People, animals, furnishings and paraphernalia, fantasy subjects etc. Gouache paintings, 18--.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • The real triumph of Japan : the conquest of the silent foe / by Louis Livingston Seaman.
  • A fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.
  • Scene from the fable of Momotaro (Peach child): the woodcutter's wife finds the peach in the river. Colour woodcut attributed to Kunisada II, 1850/1870 (?).
  • Two fish, and a detail of a fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.
  • Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.
  • Japan: a man with elaborate tattoos on his body. Coloured photograph.
  • Four portraits of emperors. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu, 1878.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • A personified red heart split in two appearing to be in discussion; an AIDS prevention advertisement with Japanese lettering. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • Court ladies producing silk under the supervision of the empress; their tasks include preparing eggs, chopping mulberry leaves, feeding caterpillars and unwinding cocoons. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki II, 1883.
  • A man in Japan with two panniers filled with vegetables suspended from a yoke is accompanied by a woman carrying buckets. Colour process print.
  • Two blind men being robbed of their sake pot at an inn; above, in a roundel, a kite-flying scene. Coloured woodcut by Shigekiyo, Yoshitora and Kyōsai, ca. 1870 (?).
  • A Japanese man and child by a village fence. Gouache painting.
  • Two giant crabs of Japan shown under water. Colour line block after T. Carreras.
  • Above, a man with a closed sack operates a string puppet; below, the man opens the sack to reveal children inside. Colour woodcut, 18--.
  • Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body. Watercolours.
  • The history of Japan giving an account of the antient and present state and government of that empire; of its ... minerals, trees ... animals ... and fishes; of the chronology ... of the emperors ... of the customs and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade ... with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a description of the Kingdom of Siam / Written in High Dutch by E. Kæmpfer ... and translated from his original manuscript, never before printed, by J. G. Scheuchzer ... With the life of the author. And an introduction. To which is added, part of a journal of a voyage to Japan, made by the English in ... 1673.
  • Tortures. Watercolours by a Japanese artist.
  • A fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.
  • A Japanese woman reclining, leaning on a bolster. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A man in yellow robes seated under a tree; a boy in green and mauve robes carries something towards him. Colour woodcut (?).