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Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).

A samurai in a latrine; outside, his three attendants hold their noses. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.

Above, a doctor examines a woman's left eye; below, a man helps another man who has fallen in a muddy puddle. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.

A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.

Blind men fording a stream. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1849 (?).

A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.

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Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

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Above, a doctor examines a woman's left eye; below, a man helps another man who has fallen in a muddy puddle. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.

Four reductions of designs from Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Woodcut after Hokusai, 185- (?).

A man with three eyes is fitted with spectacles, watched by a man and woman with fantastically elongated necks, both smoking pipes; a Buddhist monk (?) playing a shamisen looks away. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.

Blind men fording a stream. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1849 (?).

A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.