Utagawa Kunisada I, Actors from the series A Contemporary SuikodenUtagawa Kunisada I, Actors Ichikawa Ichizo III as Nozarashi Gosuke (R), Nakamura Fukusuke I as Asahina Tobei (C), and Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Ude no Kisaburo (L), from the series A Contemporary Suikoden (Tosei suikoden), Japanese, Edo period, 1858 (Ansei 5), 7th month. Publisher: Hayashiya Shogoro. Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejiro. Woodblock print (nishiki e); ink and color on paper. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection. Photograph Museum of Fine Arts,

Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudo)

Penny Vinik

Henri Guérard

from the series Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage (Buei moyu kagami)

and Frederic A

Color woodblock and stencil

Rogier van der Weyden

Black Cat on a Chair

probably 1497-1498

Poem by oe no Chisato

White Clapboard House and Dory

from the series Sagas of Beauty and Bravery (Biyu Suikoden)