Parody posters & prints

Yatsushi chikurin no shichikenjin sono yon?, Parody of the seven sages of the bamboo grove Kubo Shunman

Yatsushi kuramayama, A parody of the play Mount Kurama Anonymous

A Parody on Macbeth's Soliloquy at Covent Garden Theatre Anonymous

Yatsushi hangonko, A parody of the apparition seen by Emperor Wudi when he burned incense Yanagawa Shigenobu

God or Warrior Appearing on a Cloud Before Several Women Gathered in a Wooded Grove on Mount Kurama with View... Anonymous

Tekkai Sennin, Parody of the Chinese Sage Tieqiao Anonymous

A parody on Macbeth's soliloquy at Covent Garden Theatre Anonymous

Mitate gosho-guruma, Parody of an imperial carriage scene Utamaro Kitagawa

Mitate gosho-guruma, Parody of an imperial carriage scene Utamaro Kitagawa

Ghyakurakan Segaki, Festival at 500 Arhats Temple Anonymous

Seven Women Portraying the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove Anonymous

Episode from a parody of the Chushingura, Japanese Anonymous

This image was used as a broadside by the 'reformers' against the Roman Catholic Church Schoen Eduard

Woman Looking at a Small Vase or Incense Burner on a Table Next to a Letter on the Floor. Anonymous

Parody of Murasaki, from 'Lavender', chapter 5 of the Tale of Genji, 18th century Kawamata Tsuneyuki

Charlie Chaplin portraying Adenoid Hynkel in the film 'The Great Dictator' Anonymous

Parody of an Imperial Carriage Scene, c. 1798 Kitagawa Utamaro

Street corner, four in the morning (Parodie humaine) Félicien Rops

Studying a Painting, 16th century Zhang Lu

A Midsummer Pantomime Joseph Swain

Courtesan and her Lover Reading a Letter, a Parody on an Incident in the Chushingura Suzuki Harunobu

Courtesan Riding an Elephant, 19th century Kuwagata Keisai

Sheet of Satirical Studies, c. 1650s Salvator Rosa

The April Fool consigned to Infamy and Ridicule James Gillray

La Belle Assemblee Anonymous

The Exhibition of 1863, photographed by Cham Cham (1818-79)

The miracle of the chains in the center of the coffered, detail, 1706 Giovanni Battista Parodi

A Pig Belongs in the Sty, c.1673-5 Jan Havicksz. Steen

The miracle of the chains in the center of the coffered, detail, 1706 Giovanni Battista Parodi

Scene II: The Rake's Levee, 1735 William Hogarth

The Sleeping Congregation, 1728 William Hogarth

Scene VII: The Rake in Prison, 1735 William (after) Hogarth

A Little Tea Party Anonymous

The Robbing Hood Debating Society Anonymous

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

St. Stephen's Pantomime Tom Merry