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  • George Gordon King

    Date
    c. 1816
  • Gourd-shaped tea caddy with two ears

    Date
    late 17th century
    Period
    Edo period
  • Komagatado Azumabashi, from the series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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    early 19th-mid 19th century
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    Edo period
  • Mt. Fuji in distance 遠見富士図

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    mid 1790s
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    Edo period
  • veil

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    1775-1825
  • Surimono: Bonsai, from the series Uma zukushi

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    late 18th-mid 19th century
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    Edo period
  • 1 Ducat, Olmutz, 1820

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    1820
  • Benjamin Pierce

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    1815-25
  • insignia

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    1795 - 1820
  • Aki Province: Arashi Rikaku II as Ushiwakamaru (R) and Arashi Kichisaburō III as Kumasaka (L), from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nippon rokujū yo shū)

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    ca. 1862
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    Edo period

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