Doing the Laundry by the Well Curb (Idobata no sentaku to araihari)

Women Washing Laundry by a Well

Allegory of “The Well Curb” from the Tale of Ise

Parody of the Well Curb Story from the Tales of Ise

Ri, No. 9 Tsutsuizutsu, the Well Curb episode

The Well Curb (Izutsu), series Illustrations of Noh Plays

The Well Curb Scene from the Ise Monogatari (Tales of Ise)

The Well Curb (Izutsu), series Illustrations of Noh Plays

Satsuma ware tea-ceremony water jar in the shape of a well curb

Women of Campobasso, Italy, still use the old Roman washing place for their laundry - Photograph taken by Ge...

Local Tunisian assists New Zealander to draw water from well in Tunisia - Photograph taken by M D Elias

New Zealand officer doing his washing on the Alamein front, Egypt, in World War II - Photograph taken by H P...

Jeep used to draw water from a well in Tunisia, World War II - Photograph taken by Harold Gear Paton

Servants Slandering their Master by a Well, from the series Moral Lessons through Pictures of Good and Evil (Kyōkun zenaku zukai)

Hero salutes hero: shade of Nelson: Well done, sir! Welcome to the honourable guild of great admirals

WWII POW [During the second World War, 27 Australian prisoners of war were tried and executed for doing their patriotic duty by trying to escape from Japanese POW work camps] O'Neill

Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side the keyblock to one of Hiroshige's Tōtō meishō sakatsukushi no uchi images, on the reverse the keyblock to Twenty Warriors by Utagawa Yoshitora(?)

Tea House Hostess Standing by Rest Stand/ Snake (Mi) -- Ike no Hata, from the series Allusions to the Twelve Zodiac Animals at Famous Places in Edo for the Ichiyō Circle (Ichiyōren Edo meisho mitate jūnishi), with poems by Bunseisha Okizumi, Shimaoi Itohi

The Scion of a Rich Family Driven Mad by the Priests that had been Hired to Pray for his Recovery, No. 814 from the series The Postal Newspaper (Yūbin hōchi shimbun)

Lieutenant Commander Sakakibara Fighting Bravely to the South of Ximucheng (Takubokujo nan ni oite Sakakibara shosa funsen no zu)

Noji Tama River (Noji no Tamagawa) from The Six Tama Rivers Represented by Children (Fūryū kodomo roku Tamagawa)

Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)"

The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigō Transform Him into a Rat (Miidera Raigō Ajari no akunen nezumi to henzuru zu)

The End of Admiral Makaroff: The Sinking of the Russian Ship Petropavlovsk by a Mine Set by the Japanese Navy (Tekishō Makarofu teitokuu no saigo; Betorobaurosuku-go ware chinbotsu suru kikai suirai ni kakari (?) gōchin no zu)

(Poem by) Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason: (Actor as) the Ghost of Kasane, from the series Comparisons for Thirty-six Selected Poems (Mitate sanjūrokkasen no uchi)

The First Day of Business (Akinai hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

Women Boarding a Pleasure Boat

「青楼名君自筆集」

Nougakuzue

Chiyo no haruto sae no saya (Chiyo no haruto sae no saya)

「風俗四季歌仙」 「神楽月」

Ichikawa Kuzo III as a Lion-Dog, Ichimura Takematsu III as another Lion-Dog, Ichimura Kakitsu IV as the Courtesan Eguchi no Kimi in a Parody of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, and Sawamura Tossho II as Priest Saigyo

「茶屋廻り幸　市川高麗蔵」「☆千之助　市川団兵衛」「嵐ごち蔵」「松本武五郎」「坂東国蔵」「沢村長太郎」「沢村川蔵」

Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets

Visiting a temple dedicated to Fudo

Sanjō Kokaji no manebigoto zu

当時流行道具のほし見世

Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō no onna tachi)

The Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as the Elderly Samurai Hige no Ikyū

「夜の灯」

November: Marriage (Sono Jūichi: Yomeiri), series Twelve Months of Beauties

「美人八景　立川の夜の雨」

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

Courtesans as the Seven Deities of Good Fortune (Shichifukujin)

Parody of the Story of Narukami

「風俗東之錦」

「中納言家持」

「永楽庵　京都　ぎおん二軒茶屋　出見せ」

Double-page Illustration from Vol. 1 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"