An Artistic Expression

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A girl pretending to be frightened by a young boy in a fox mask. Woodcut. Yamamoto Shōun. 1906. Wellcome Collection

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No. 66. A man in robes sails off on the back of a carp.  Illustrated catalog of day light bomb shells. Hirayama Fireworks. Late 19th century. 

Yokohama Central Library

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“Three komuso play the shakuhachi (Japanese recorder). Komuso originally meant beggar monks.” 1900-40. Hand-colored lantern slide.

Widener Library

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Pattern with fans. “Nippon” : a collection of designs for silk and cotton textiles. v.1. n.d.

Internet Archive

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Kodomo no tomo [Children’s companion]. Monthly children’s magazine 1914-1943. Cover.

National Diet Library

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Ojiisan no ranpu [Grandfather’s lamp]. 1942  Anthology of children’s stories by Nankichi Niimi. Cover.

National Diet Library

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Proclaiming Hiroshima as the city of eternal peace. 1949. First day cover.

Science History Institute

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Watonai goldfish. Goldfish and their culture in Japan. 1910.

Internet Archive

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Fujiyama with radiant sun. In the land of the cherry blossom. 1915. Book cover detail.

Internet Archive

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Japanese psychedelic/op art pattern with circles and squares, from the 19th century. A contribution to the knowledge of Japanese arts and crafts. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des japanischen Kunstgewerbes. 1892.

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Pregnant women playing in Summer heat. Five heads with ten bodies. Kunitoshi Utagawa. 1881

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Court dress of a military official. The tale of Genji. 1925. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

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Beautifully worn covers from Japanese books, 1837-93

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“Phone may prevent war by accident.” Survival. Vol. 1 No. 8. 1963. 

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Esquire. October 1968.

Months after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and three years after John F. Kennedy had been killed, Esquire's legendary art director George Lois and photographer Carl Fischer have them meeting in a military cemetery. A small headline near the top of the page reads, "Salvaging the 20th Century."

Internet Archive

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The story of our lighthouses and lightships. 1891. Cover detail.

Internet Archive

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“Beams thrown from the Heligoland Lighthouse.” Lightships and lighthouses. 1913. Internet Archive