A fireman, looking left, holding the standard for district six, from the series Firemen's Standards of all G...

A fireman, looking to the left, holding the standard for district ten, from the series Firemen's Standards o...

A fireman holding a standard for district three, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Districts

A seated fireman holding the standard for district five, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Di...

A fireman holding a standard for district one over his shoulder, from the series Firemen's Standards of all ...

A fireman carrying the standard for district nine, from the series Firemen's Standards of all Great Districts

A fireman seen from the back holding the standard for district eight, from the series Firemen's Standards of...

Fireman seen from the back, holding the standard for district two, from the series Firemen's Standards of al...

Frontal view of a fireman holding the standard for district seven, from the series Firemen's Standards of al...

A fireman throwing water over the clothes of a fireman with the standard for district four, from the series ...

[Two firemen holding the standards of their companies]

Moon and Smoke: Fireman Watching the Moon

Warrior standing in the snow looking at a wagtail

Looking expectant: the appearance of a fireman's wife of the Kaei era (1848-1854), from the series Thirty-tw...

Looking at Hōeizan from the 4th Camp of Mount Fuji (Omoteguchi yongōme yori Hōeizan o nozomu), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei no uchi)

[A man walking to the left, with a large hat resting on his back and wearing sandals, holding a short staff possibly used to propell a boat]

[A Chinese sage sitting on a bench beneath banana trees, with attendants preparing a meal on the left]

[A man and a woman, seen from behind, are looking to where the man is pointing with his left arm, he holds a closed parasol in his right hand; the woman has her hands on her face, it is unclear whether she is peering into the distance or crying]

[Scenes related to the Soga family - three warriors, one with two swords and two with bow and arrows; retainers holding the reins of horses in the foreground]

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Karigane Bunshichi, Bando Mitsugoro I as An no Heibei, Ichikawa Danjuro V as Gokuin Sen'emon, Nakamura Sukegoro II as Kaminari Shokuro, and Sakata Hangoro II as Hotei Ichiemon (right to left), in "Gonin Otoko" (Five Chivalrous Commoners), an Interlude in Part Two of the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga (A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Second Month, 1780

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: Loosening the Sash in the Bedchamber), from Part Two of the Play Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage (Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1786

[A Russian woman is having a nightmare showing disasterous defeats of the Russian army and navy on all fronts in the war against Japan; she is being attended to by a doctor who is taking her pulse, two maids, and a member of the clergy, possibly a bishop]

"To think I've missed 28 years of peace in Asia!" [old Japanese soldier found by allied army personnel, the allied soldier is holding a newspaper with the heading Nixon's Viet. peace offer ignored] / McCrae

The Oriental navigator, or, Directions for sailing to, from, and upon the coasts of, the East-Indies, China, Australia...To the work are prefixed a series of ... tables of the determined positions of all the principle points and places from the British seas to Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to the islands of Japan, by John Purdy. (Plan of Chatham Island, &c. Whittle & Laurie, London, 1815.)

A new chart of the Indian and Pacific Oceans between the Cape of Good Hope, New Holland and Japan : comprehending New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea &c., Louisade and New Georgia ; also the Pellew, New Caroline, Ladrone and Philippine Islands; with all these which have been discovered in the year 1788; & the tracks of the English, French, Spanish and Dutch discoverers