Views of Mt. Fuji

hues sparkling in the Milky Way by daylight on the seventh of the seventh month

two lover-stars

River of Heaven (under which name the Milky Way is known to the Japanese and Chinese)

Nen-chiu-koji-yôgen

bringing it into the foreground with sonorous brass, or veiling it with contrapuntal themes that all but disguise it, digressing only very infrequently with a reference to legend or history

Stations of the Tokaido

a hand-made article throughout

Japanese picture-book, the very feel of it, the strangeness of its format, even the opening from left to right instead of right to left as in our own books, has a certain appeal

the immortal Manga is the best known; there are books of warriors and derring-do; books of drawing-instruction; and above all, albums of landscape prints

for art students, or a collection of slapstick caricatures. Hokusai’s ehon, “picture books”, are among the most remarkable.