EditorialLight shines on General Horatio Gates in the painting "Surrender of General Burgoyne" (1826) by John Trumbull as visitors tour the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, May 25, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialJapan: ‘Hakone Lake in Sagami Province'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830
EditorialJapan: ‘Sazai Hall - Temple of Five Hundred Rakan’. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830
EditorialChina: 'Luohan, after a set attributed to Guanxio'. Ink rubbing of the stele commissioned by the Qianlong emperor depicting the arhat Asita. The upper right shows the inscriptions of the eulogy given by Qianlong. Stele c. 1757, ink rubbing c. 18th-19th ce
EditorialJapan: 'Enoshima in Sagami Bay'. Ukiyo-e woodblock print from the series ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’ by Katsushika Hokusai (31 October 1760 - 10 May 1849), 1830