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Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vol. 4

1789 (Kansei 1)

Artists

Nakamura TekisaiAuthor

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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One Hundred Beauties of the Yoshiwara Poems by the Gokawa Murasaki Club (Gokawa Murasaki ren hyaku ban no uchi), with poems by Yusuiro Kawafune and an associate

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Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke 1st and Iwai Hanshirō 3rd In Front of a Theater

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, datable to 1720

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Painting, No. 4 from the series The Four Accomplishments (Kinkishoga)

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Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Hishikawa Sori, Edo period, 1805

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Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; Ink and color on paper

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View of the Nakanochō Niwaka Festival from the corner of Inamoto-rō in the New Yoshiwara (Shinyoshiwara kakugai Inamoto-rō yori Nakanochō Niwaka ichiran no zu)

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Actors Arashi Sangorō 2nd as Minamoto no Yoritomo disguised as Eboshi Ori (the Hat Maker) and Segawa Kikujirō 2nd as Yuki Onna (the Snow Woman) in the play Myōtogiku Izu no Kisewata at the Ichimura Theater from the eleventh month of 1770

Ippitsusai Bunchō, Edo period, 1770 (eleventh month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "aiban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Ippitsusai Bunchō ga"

18th centuryJapanese

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from the illustrated book "Kachō gaden"

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗

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Procession of a Ryūkyūan Ambassador

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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