PrintsJapanese

Ehon chushingura

Artists

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

21 x 15.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Great Victory of Our Forces at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Fourth Illustration

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1894 (Meiji 27)

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and colors on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Kinmō zui)

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, dated 1668

Fourth of a set of fourteen thread-bound woodblock-printed volumes; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

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Center sheet of triptych Children at Play: Tennō Festival (Kodomo asobi Tennō matsuri)

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, 19th century

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Woman Holding the Under the Cherry Blossoms (Hana no en) Volume of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)/ Books (Bunsho), from the series Seven Designs for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika shichiban tsuzuki), with poems by Rokuzōtei Hōba and Bungaen Tomom

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1826

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Gakutei"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Circling the Crater of Fuji (Hakkai-meguri no Fuji): Half of detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 3

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, circa 1835-1847

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

GOOSE

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa UMEZO AS A SAMURAI

Katsukawa Shunkō, Edo period,

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Three Great Warriors of Shuhan (Guan Yu, Liu Bei, and Zhang Fei) looking at a handscroll, with a poem by Kūmanya Utagaki no Maeda

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1821

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Fishing Village

Maeda Masao, Shōwa period, mid 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors Segawa Kikunojō as a Woman with Ichikawa Monnosuke and Nakamura Denkurō 2nd

Torii Kiyonaga, Mid to Late Edo period, late 18th to early 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and colors on paper, with printed signature reading "Kiyonaga ga"

18th-19th centuryJapanese

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SMALL SERIES OF THE 53 STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO "HAMAMATSU ZANZA NO MATSU" STATION NO. 30

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Young Women Fighting over a Theater Program

Ishikawa Toyonobu 石川豊信, Edo period, mid 18th century

Benizuri-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese