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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Mount Otowa Moon - Bright God Tamura
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon of the Pleasure Quarters
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Cassia-Tree Moon - Wu Gang
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Pleasure is This/ To Lie Cool under the...
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: The Moon of the Milky Way
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Jade Rabbit - Sun Wukong, from "Journey to...
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Moon at the Helm of a Boat - Taira no Kiyotsune
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Faith in the Third-Day Moon - Yukimori
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: The Moon Glimmers like Bright Snow/ And Plum...
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Full Moon/ On the Tatami Mats/ Shadows of...
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Shizu Peak Moon - Hideyoshi
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: The Moon's Four Strings - Semimaru
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: The Yūgao Chapter from "The Tale of Genji"
This print is from Tsuki hyakushi (One hundred aspects of the moon), a collection of 100 large, moon-themed nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock prints) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839−92). The prints were...
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The Special Features of Antarctic France, Otherwise Called America, and of...
André Thevet (1516‒92) was a Franciscan friar who traveled widely and, through his writings, helped to establish cosmographie—as geography was called at the time—as a science in 16th-century France....
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut
Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut), more commonly known as Manon Lescaut, is a novel by the Abbé Prévost (1697‒1763), first...
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Narrative of Le Moyne, an Artist who Accompanied the French Expedition to...
Great collections of travel narratives were published in Europe in the second half of the 16th century, reflecting more than a century of European effort to take possession of the New World, both...
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Algonquin Grammar or on the Natives of North America, with the Description of...
Louis Nicolas (active 1667‒75) was a French Jesuit who in 1664 was sent to Canada as a missionary, where he remained until 1675. He traveled widely and developed a keen interest in the people,...
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Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign...
Memoire sur la Louisiane (Memoir on Louisiana) is a 23-page handwritten document by the French priest François Le Maire (1575–1658), written for presentation to the sovereign council of the Navy in...
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Compilation of Rules, Edicts, Declarations and Decisions on Trade, the...
In 1717, French finance minister John Law decided to introduce the importation of slaves into the colony of Louisiana, with the goal of developing the plantation economy in Lower Louisiana. The...
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New Voyages to North America by the Baron de Lahontan
Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de Lahontan (1666‒1716), was a French soldier who was sent to North America in 1683. He participated in the French campaign against the Iroquois on Lake Ontario in...
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