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  • Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).
  • Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).
  • Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).
  • 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.
  • Above left, a tiger (?) restrained with a collar and a cloth over its head; left, a man on crutches steps over a sleeping man; centre, a man fans a stove on which a kettle is placed, watched by a man (right) kneeling by a cabinet (?); above right, an old woman sharpens (?) a knife. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • Above, a doctor examines a woman's left eye; below, a man helps another man who has fallen in a muddy puddle. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • Left, a small man (a dwarf?) lifts a horse's tail with a bamboo rod to catch its faeces in a scoop; above right, a man with filarial elephantiasis is helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling; below right, a woman carrying a baby on her back points in amazement. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).
  • A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • Blind men fording a stream. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1849 (?).
  • A samurai in a latrine; outside, his three attendants hold their noses. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.