Japanese print show Oberlin College

- "Courtesan Striking a Shuttlecock with a Battledore,'' 1704–16, by Okumura Masanobu, is one of the spectacular early woodblock prints in the Mary Ainsworth collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Though carved from a block of cherry wood, the print appears to have been painted in flowing lines with ink and brush. Allen Memorial Art Museum

- "Night Rain at Karasaki,'' from the series Eight Views of O¯mi, 1834, by Utagawa Hiroshige, shows how Japanese woodblock artists excelled at evoking subtleties of light, weather and atmosphere. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

- "Ghosts of the Slain Taira Warriors in Daimotsu Bay,'' 1849–51, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, depicts a 12th-century legend in which a warrior from the Minamato Clan is tormented at sea by the spirits of slain warriors from the Taira Clan, who are stirring up a storm. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

- "Fireworks at Ryo¯goku, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo," 1858, by Utagawa Hiroshige, is a classic example of the artist's imaginative landscapes, which were popular both in Japan and in the West. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

- Katsushika Hokusai's "Fuji in Clear Weather is part of the artist's famous series "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, made circa 1830–33. It's part of a show at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College that will reopen this fall. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

- A 1796 portrait by Utagawa Kunimasa depicts the actor Iwai Kumesaburo¯ performing as a kamuro, a little girl attendant to a courtesan, in training to become a courtesan herself. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College