Komatsuya’s work is defined by its japanese (culture or style) sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Cherry Tree and Pheasant
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720-1793 (?)

Yang Guifei
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720-1793 (?)

Incense That Revives the Image of the Dead - Lady Li
Attributed to Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720–1793 (?)

Incense That Revives the Image of the Dead - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
Attributed to Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720–1793 (?)

Shutendoji in Oeyama Palace
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720-1793 (?)

The “Chinese” Quartermaster
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720–1793 (?)

Cuckoo flying over deutzia flowers
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720–1793 (?)

Courtesan and Two Kamuro
Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720-1793 (?)

Mechanical Elephant with Festival Barge and Korean Musicians
Attributed to Komatsuya Hyakki Japanese, 1720–1793 (?)

Konjaku zoku hyakki
Toriyama Sekien 鳥山 石燕 Japanese, 1712–1788

Gazu hyakki tsurezure bukuro
Toriyama Sekien, Japanese

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Osen of the Komatsuya House (?) in the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1782 (?)
Katsukawa Shunjo Japanese, died 1787

Courtesans of the Komatsuya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2
Katsukawa Shunsho Japanese, 1726-1792 Kitao Shigemasa Japanese, 1739-1820

Night Procession of Goblins (Hyakki yagyo no zu)
Kawanabe Kyosai Japanese, 1831-1889

Self-Portrait
Walter Shirlaw (American, 1838–1909)

Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins
Gérard Edelinck (French, born Flanders, 1640-1707) after Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659-1743)