Cat Playing with a Toy Butterfly, from the series Thirty-six Pictures of Birds (1828) by Hokkei Totoya.
The Daughter of Dainagon Yukinari (c.1842) by Kuniyoshi Utagawa.
Butterfly Dancer and Monster Cat – Kabuki (1870s) by Yoshitaki Utagawa.
The Orchid (1896) by Gekko Ogata.
Cotton Spinning (no date) by Harunobu Suzuki.
Cats & Butterfly (1967) by Kiyoshi Asai.
Cats and Butterfly (1967) by Tomikichiro Tokuriki.
Cat and Tulip (1972) by Tomoo Inagaki.
Cat and Butterfly (1985) by Miyashita.
Cat plays with butterfly by his tail (1994) by Iwao Akiyama.
Miss B (2001) by Tadashige Ono.
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• Twenty-four octopuses and a squid
• Seventeen views of Edo
• The art of Yuhan Ito, 1882–1951
• Eight Views of Cherry Blossom
• Fourteen views of Himeji Castle
• One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji
• The art of Kato Teruhide, 1936–2015
• Fifteen ghosts and a demon
• Hiroshi Yoshida’s India
• The art of Hasui Kawase, 1883–1957
• The art of Paul Binnie
• Nineteen views of Zen gardens
• Ten views of the Itsukushima Shrine
• Charles Bartlett’s prints
• Sixteen views of Meoto Iwa
• Waves and clouds
• Yoshitoshi’s ghosts
• Japanese moons
• The Hell Courtesan
• Nocturnes