Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Girl with a Basket of Cut Grasses)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Man)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Monk)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Maiko)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Maiko)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Nakai maid)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Compositional Study II)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Compositional study I)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Man and a maiko)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Seikan-ji Temple)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Seikan-ji Temple)

Study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Gate of Seikanji Temple)

Monk of Talk on Ancient Romance

Study for a Flower Girl from Shirakawa

Box for Poetry Books with a Fence and Autumn Grasses

A Woman Dressing a Girl for a the Kabuki Dance “Musume Dojōji,” with “Brother Picture” (E-kyōdai) of a Monkey Trainer

A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kōbō Daishi’s Poem on the Jewel River of Kōya (Kōya no Tamagawa: Kōbō Daishi)

Ancient History 34: Vulcan's threads. This nasty metal-worker, knowing that his wife / Talked a little too closely with Mars, / Forged pitiless snares / Gripping both of them as they chatted on the lawn (A bachelor D. M. F. P.)

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

JOURNEY TO CHINA 5: CHINESE LAW. Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes