• Kohina (小雛) of the Ōmiya (あみや) from the series <i>Votive Hand Towels</i> (<i>Hōnō tenugui</i> - 奉納手拭)
  • View of Mishima (<i>Mishima no zu</i> - 三嶋之図) from the series <i>Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road</i> (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i> - 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Fight to the Death of Heroic Samurai of the Kusunoki Clan at Shijō-nawate (<i>Kusunoki-ke yushi Shijō-nawate nite uchijini </i>- 楠家勇士四條縄手にて討死)
  • Dragon (Tatsu 竜) from the series <i>Elegant Women Likened to the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac</i> (<i>Fūryū azuma-sugata jūnishi</i> - 風流東姿十二支)
  • Hakone (箱根): Nakamura Shikan IV (四代目中村芝翫) as Kō no Moronao (高師直) from the series <i>The Tōkaidō Road: One Look Worth a Thousand Ryō</i> (<i>Tōkaidō hitome senryō</i> - 東海道一ト眼千両 - <i>Yojiba no zu</i> 湯冶場ノ図 - 'Picture of the Hot Springs')
  • Poem by Emperor Kōkō (Kōkō Tennō - 光孝天皇), No. 15 (十五), from the series <i>A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets</i> (<i>Hyakunin isshu eshō</i> - 百人一首絵抄)  
  • Number 33 (卅三)  from the series <i>Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure</i> (<i>Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e</i> - 其姿紫の写絵) 
  • View of Shirasuka (<i>Shirasuka no zu</i>: 白須賀之図) from the chuban series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (<i>Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi</i>: 東海道五十三次之内)
  • Iwai Hanshirō V (岩井半四郎) in the role of an onnagata in the snow - the left-hand panel of a triptych of a winter scene at Terashima - probably a mitate
  • Famous Product: Mount Fuji White Saké (<i>Meibutsu fuji no shirozake</i> - 名物富士の白酒) - left-hand panel of a triptych

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Ukiyo-e Prints in the Mike Lyon Collection

Mike Lyon (artist b. 1951) was fortunate to have grown up familiar with Japanese prints. In his youth Lyon’s parents and grandparents displayed examples that certainly inspired his own artistic development. He began acquiring Japanese color woodcuts early in his career as an artist. The types of prints that feature most prominently among the many hundreds in Lyon's collection reflect the artist’s deep appreciation of the human figure and the expressive facial portrait. The vast majority of Japanese prints in the Lyon collection represent views of actors yakusha-e) and beautiful women (bijin-ga), and in particular the close-up, bust-length portraits of the same (okubi-e).

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