THE FOUR WALKS IN LIFE-THE SAMURAI, FARMER, ARTISAN AND MERCHANT. "THE ARTISAN"

[Two Japanese men and one foreigner riding on a horse while a Japanese farmer walks]

Farmer and Son on the Way Home

An American Merchant and His Daughter Strolling in Yokohama

Modern Reproduction of "The Farmer Class" (Nō), series The Four Social Classes

Villagers (Farming in the Four Seasons)

Villagers (Farming in the Four Seasons)

Bando Mitsugoro in the Role of Farmer Manbei in ‘Tachi Nusubito’

Four PM, from the series "Twenty-Four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi"

A Merchant Ship and Fishing Boats on the Inland Sea, from Set of Landscapes of the Four Seasons

The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

Friends, acquaintances, pupils and patrons: Japanese intellectual life in the late eighteenth cent...

The Merchant (Sho) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

The war in the East—a Japanese merchant steamer sunk by the Russians

The Samurai (Shi) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)

The memory of Sugihara and the “visas for life” in Poland

Girls Cutting Cloth Resenting Natihira, from the series The Four Necessities of Life

Landscape with birds and flowers in the four seasons

Samurai scribbles on the door painting in front of other retainers

The four seasons - a screen in four sections; verso: Sun and moon - a Japanese landscape

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

Shizunome Ohyaku and Four Hungry Ghosts, from the series Beauty and Valor in the Novel Suikoden (Biyū suikoden)

Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons : Japanese Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Cen...

Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons : Japanese Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Cen...

Lakdoos en doek

Tobacco Pouch with a Shell-Shaped Ornament (Netsuke), a Box of Sweets from Takasagoya, and a Pot of Plant/The Salt Shell (Shiogai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase), with a poem by Toshigaki no Maharu

Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō 7th and Ichikawa Danjūrō 8th by Mirror Stand, with poems by Bunkyosha Hazemaro and Bunkaisha Meiko

Tobacco Pouch, Pipe and Turnip

Aubergines

「三都之内」 「江戸武蔵鐙」

The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as Ōgishi Kurando

「江戸名所百人美女」 「高縄」

[Beauty with a Shamisen and Cat]

An Honest Girl, from the Series "A Parent's Moralising Spectacles"

A Smoking Set and Turnips

Plum branch and wine flask

Arashiyama

No 10,Riko-so (Object); Tosei Sanju-Niso (Series)

Koumyoubijinrokkasenhanaougi

Juraku People (Jurakuden)

print; surimono

「東京自慢名物會 春風亭柳枝 ビラ辰」「髙木與兵衛　清婦湯　清心丹[薬屋]」「よし町丁字屋小てる　小嶌かね」「かきから町水天宮模様」

Bijin hana-awase (Series)

Oboshi Yoshio no naishitsu Ishijo (Object); Seichu gishin den (Series)

Ukiyo no hana

The Bugaku Dance Rindai

「月百姿　貞観殿月　源経基」

Kayoi, from the series Seven Beautiful Women (Fūryū nana komachi)