I have been able to illustrate this book with the wonderful prints featured within thanks to the kind support and great generosity of the following museums, art dealers and printmakers. I am extremely grateful to them all.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Honolulu Museum of Art
JapanesePrints-London
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mokuhankan
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rijksmuseum
Scholten Japanese Art
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
Poem of the Pillow, Kitagawa Utamaro, p.2
The Sunrise at Futamigaura, Utagawa Kunsada, p.8, © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of James A. Michener, 1959 (14446)
Yellow Rose and Frogs, Utagawa Hiroshige, p.18, © Honolulu Museum of Art (29951S)
Akashi Gidayu – One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.24, © Scholten Japanese Art, New York
Unravelling the Threads of Desire, Kitagawa Utamaro, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art (JP3166)
The Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Washi no Chokichi, Toyohara Kunichika, p.40
Chrysanthemums and Horsefly, Katsushika Hokusai, p.48, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.210)
The Courtesan Kasugano of the Sasaya Brothel, Chōkōsai Eishō, p.56, © Honolulu Museum of Art (29762S)
Charcoal Foot Warmer, Itō Shinsui, p.64, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Ellen and Fred Wells (2002.161.85)
Notes on Events in the Ansei Period, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, p.72, © Museum of Civilizations – MPE ‘L. Pigorini’
Ario-maru Struggling with a Giant Octopus, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, p.84
Nakamura Utaemon III as Gotobei Moritsugu, Utagawa Kunisada, p.90, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Bequest of H.C. Bos (RP-P-2008-167)
Comparison of the High Renown of the Loyal Retainers and Faithful Samurai: Chiba Saburohei Mitsutada, Utagawa Kuniysohi, p.96, © Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Purchased with Funds provided by Judith Patt (2012.031.009)
Snake, Pheasant and Canna (Kanna ni kiji to hebi), Katsushika Hokusai, mid-1830s, p.108, Gift of Mrs John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Photography by Erik Gould, Courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
The Psyche of Fish (Sakana no kokoro), 1830–44, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, p.120, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Photography courtesy of Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
Picture of the Eastern Beauties, Kitao Shigemasa, p.128, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914 (JP195)
Onoe Kikugoro in the Role of Samurai Hayata Hachiemon Committing Seppuku, Toyohara Kunichika, p.140, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Purchased with funds provided by Barry Till (2004.017.001)
Coiled Dragon Panel for Higashimachi Festival Float, Nagano Prefectural Treasure, Katsushika Hokusai, p.152, © Hokusai Museum, Obuse
Okano Kin’emon Fujiwara no Kanehide – Pictorial Biographies of the Loyal Retainers, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.172, © Scholten Japanese Art, New York
Meshimoriosugi Ichikawa Monnosuke, Utagawa Toyokuni I, p.180, © The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University (001-0841)
Crow in the Snow, Kawanabe Kyōsai, p.196, © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of James A. Michener, 1991 (24730)
Hydrangeas and Swallow, Katsushika Hokusai, p.206, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.215)
A Beauty Looking at the First Sunrise, Eishōsai Chōki, p.214, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr. (P.70.134)
Poppies, Katsushika Hokusai, p.222, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.206)
The Great Wrestling Match at Akazawa, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, p.230, © JapanesePrints-London.com
Looking in Pain, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.242, © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Nakamura Kichiemon I as Mitsuhide, Natori Shunsen, p.252, © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of the Charles Alfred Castle Memorial Collection, 1999 (26556)
Poem of the Pillow, Kitagawa Utamaro, p.262
Moor at the Foot of Mount Fuji – The Soga Brothers Achieving their Avowed Wish, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, p.276, © JapanesePrints-London.com
Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons, Kawanabe Kyōsai, p.290, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013 (2013.767)
Kumonryu on a Moonlit Night in Shi Clan Village – One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.294, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam (RP-P-2003-450)
Hibiscus and Sparrow, Katsushika Hokusai, p.306, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.213)
Kisen Hōshi, from the series The Six Immortal Poets, Katsushika Hokusai, p.314, © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of James A. Michener, 1991 (23703)
Dragon in the Clouds, Totoya Hokkei, p.322, © Mokuhankan
Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival, Utagawa Hiroshige, p.338, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-1956-745)
Peonies and Butterfly, Katsushika Hokusai, p.346, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.211)
Horse and Rider, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.352, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Francis M. Weld, 1948 (JP3133)
The Ghost of Yūgao from The Tale of Genji, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.360, © Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with funds contributed by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation (1989-47-423)
Namauo Chōjirō Running to Left with Huge Blade, from the series Biographies of Fine Modern Men, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, p.366, © Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Sidney A. Tannenbaum, 1978 (1978-129-47)
Crow on a Tree Trunk, Kawanabe Kyōsai, p.374, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-1956-776)
Lilies, Katsushika Hokusai, p.380, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Bequest of Richard P. Gale (74.1.214)
Crow, Shibata Zeshin, p.384, © Honolulu Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, 2003 (27652)