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Rh * The sun-goddess in her cave.
 * View of the two banks of the Sumida, seen from a bridge; very broad sheet, about 1800.
 * The Landscape with the 100 Bridges; very large.
 * Fujiyama across the water. 1802, unsigned.
 * The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido as a Sugoroku-game; large.
 * Surveyor at work, 1848; large oblong.
 * Representations of animals: eagle on perch beside a cherry-branch in blossom; two storks on a pine-branch under snow; two carp swimming up a waterfall; horses grazing; tortoises at the bottom of the sea.

Series:—

The six Tamagawa; somewhat brutal.

The same, with medallions.

3 sheets, evening landscapes with women promenading; small.

Shika Shashinkio, poems, 10 large sheets, with excellent landscapes and figures.

The Liukiu Islands, 8 sheets.

27 (?) sheets, the Hundred Poems; oblong, signed Hokusai Manji.

Surimonos:—

A young merchant, 1793; on the back the programme of a summer concert.

The Twelve Months typified by female figures.

The Childhood of Characters in History.

Large size: lobster and pine-branch, 1802; another without the branch; tea-house by the river, 1804; plum-branch in blossom, 1806; sempstresses, 1809; series of five sheets of shells, signed Gechi Rojin Jitsu.

Book-illustrations:—


 * Yellow books (kibiyoshi), size 17 by 12½ cm., from 1780 to 1811 (see Goncourt, page 347 ff.). Among them the story of the Tongue-cut Sparrow, 1792, and the Paths of Riches and Poverty, 1793.