Utagawa Kuniyoshi at the Royal Academy: Manga master of the 19th century

Hatsuhana prays under a waterfall, c1842. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Sakata Kaidomaru wrestles with a giant carp, c1837. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Young woman who looks like an old lady, c1847. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Asahina Saburo Yoshihide wrestles with two crocodiles at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura, 1849. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (Arthur R Miller Collection)

Octopus games, 1840-42, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Mitsukuni defies the skeleton spectre conjured up by Princess Takiyasha, 1845-46. Photograph: The British Museum

Three women with umbrellas in a summer shower (detail in a triptych), 1849-51. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Fishermen at Teppozu, early 1830s. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Ghost of the drowned warrior Shimamura Danjo Takanori, and crabs, 1843-4. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (Arthur R Miller Collection)

Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro III as Old Man Kasahara, 1852. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R Miller Collection)

Courtier Ariwara no Narihira and his attendants admire autumn leaves on Tatsuta River, c1842. Photograph: American Friends of the British Museum (Arthur R Miller Collection)