Book cover consisting of two prints showing on one side A Hawk Among Plum Blossoms and on the Other Pheasants with Lilies, from the series Selection of Flowers and Birds

Japanese Lilies and a Jay, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Japanese Lilies and a Jay, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Pheasants among Trees: Flowers of the Four Seasons

On one side Narihira and the pilgrim; on the other, chrysanthemums and a brook

Waxwing on Pomegranate, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Ragged Robins and Siskins, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Cherry Blossoms and Shrike, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Cherry Blossoms and Shrike, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Horned Owl and Chrysanthemum, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Camellia, Bullfinch and Japanese Tit, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Peonies and Blue-and-White Flycatcher, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Peonies and Blue-and-White Flycatcher, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Water Hyacinth, Sandpiper and Kingfisher, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Water Hyacinth, Sandpiper and Kingfisher, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Crab Apple and Brown-Eared Bulbul, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Crab Apple and Brown-Eared Bulbul, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Morning Glory and Oriental Greenfinch, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Morning Glory and Oriental Greenfinch, from the album New Selection of Birds and Flowers

Pair of doors with eagle on a pinetree on one side; deer and cherry-blossoms on the other

Engishiki (Rules and regulations concerning ceremonies and other events), Vol. 4, Written on the reverse side of another document

Blossoms on Asuka Hill in the Eastern Capital from the Series Outstanding Views of Snow, Moon, and Flowers

Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”

Design for Cover of Hand Drawings of Old Masters from the Albertina and other Collections, Vol. IV （Entwurf für Titelblatt von Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Bd. IV）

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing