A Shunga erotic print lovers with a folded screen behind them, c.1785 -
Yushido Shunsho
A Shunga erotic print a man pleasures his female lover, c.1785 -
Yushido Shunsho
Detail of the wallpaper in the Chinese bedroom depicting a daily life scene, c.1760 -
Anonymous Artist
Emperor Ch'in Wang Ti (r.221-210 BC) abolishing feudalism, from a history of Chinese emperors -
Anonymous Artist
1973-22c Shin Bijin (True Beauties) depicting a woman playing with a kitten, from a series of 36, modelled on an earlier series -
Toyohara Chikanobu
Liou Repelling the French at Bach Ninh during the Franco-Chinese War of 1885, 1885-89 -
Anonymous Artist
A group of Chinese on the bank of a river, watching the Earl Macartney's Embassy pass, 1793 -
William Alexander
The great awakening of the silk worms, no.5 from Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa, c.1800 -
Kitagawa Utamaro
Rorihakucho Cho Jun and Kokusempu Ri Ki, in an under water fight, from the novel Suikoden -
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Ploughing Festival in China, frontispiece illustration for 'La Chine en Miniature', 1811 -
Anonymous Artist
Tea Ceremony A Woman of the Hoei Era, from the series A Selection of the Thirty-Six Beauties, 1893 -
Mizuno Toshikata
Emperor Hui Tsung (r.1100-26) practising with the Buddhist sect Tao-See, from a History of the Emperors of China -
Anonymous Artist
Great Walls of Peking, illustration from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Giulio Ferrario, published c.1820s-30s -
Gaetano Zancon
Sudden Shower over Shin Ohashi Bridge and Atake Ohashi Atake no Yudachi from the series Meisho Edo Hyakkei One Hundred Famous Views of Edo -
Utagawa or Ando Hiroshige
Husking, from Gengzhi tu (Pictures of Tilling and Weaving) -
Tang Yin
An old Chinese man, illustration from an album of mythological Chinese persons -
Anonymous Artist
Wakashima Gonemon and the Bell, from Tales of the floating world on eastern brocade, 1867 -
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Evening Bell of the Clock one of a series of Eight Parlour Scenes -
Suzuki Harunobu
The Lovers Hambei and Ochie, from a series An Array of Passionate Lovers, 1797-98 -
Kitagawa Utamaro
Lady Wenji's Return to China: Wenji Arriving Home, Southern Song dynasty, China, second quarter of the 12th century (detail) -
Anonymous Artist
Bijin kaichu kagami (A Pocket Mirror of Beauties) -
Keisai Eisen
Handscroll depicting a landscape with the colophon poem, 'Fishing in Willow Brook', Chinese, 1706 -
Hui Wang