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A mid-19th-century scene by Utagawa Kunisada fancifully showing fashionable Japanese women creating books using woodblock printing techniques.

A modern statue of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), the Japanese poet and novelist who played a leading role in creating the so-called ‘floating world’ (ukiyo-zoshi) genre of popular literature in the 17th century.

This is a page from the book 'The Man who Loved Love' (1684) written by Ihara Saikaku and illustrated by Hishikawa Moronbu held by the National Diet Library, Tokyo. Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary- (https://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit60/...

Portrait of the Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693 CE) by an unknown artist.

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany

Amanda H. Podany, the author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East published by Oxford University Press.

Portrait of Louis François Perrin de Précy, commander of the rebel army during the Revolt of Lyon in the Federalist Revolts (May-December 1793). By Jean-Joseph Dassy, 1829. In the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Cholet

Portrait of Joseph Chalier, the Jacobin leader whose execution in Lyon, France led to the Revolt of Lyon during the Federalist Revolts (May-December 1793). Painting attributed to Jean-François Garneray, c. 1793. In the Musée Carnavalet.

Engraving of Collot d'Herbois, member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and the French Revolution. By Auguste Raffet, 1847

Depiction of the Siege of Lyon, August-October 1793 during the Revolt of Lyon. Authour unknown.