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Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vol. 5

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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Waterfall

Matsubara Naoko, Shōwa period, dated 1966

Woodblock print; ink on paper with signature reading "Naoko Matsubara"

20th centuryJapanese

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Fuchū: Tea Picking, the Famous Abe Tea (Chatsumi, meisan Abe cha), cut from sheet 5 of the series Cutouts for the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi harimaze), also called Cutout Pictures of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō harimaze zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Furyū Genji: Akashi (Hiroshige landscape, Kunisada [main] figures)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, 1835

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Courtesan and Kamuro with Wheeled Writing Table (Fuguruma), Number Six, Right (Rokuban migi, kurumao) from the series A Contest of Fowls (Tori-awase)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Edo period, circa 1825 (Year of the Rooster)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi-ban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Roosters Fighting

Sekino Jun'ichirō 関野準一郎, Shōwa period,

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Courtesan Rinzan of the Akatsutaya

Hosoda Eishō (Chōkōsai), Mid Edo period, circa 1780-1800

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Chōkōsai Eishō ga"

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō 2nd as Kujaku Saburo(?)

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, Edo period, 1794 (11th month of Kansei 6?)

Left sheet from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "hosoban" diptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"

18th centuryJapanese

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Tagonoura Bay in Suruga Province (Suruga Tago no ura), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as Satsuma Gengobei

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Japanese

Prints

A HUNDRED VIEWS OF FAMOUS PLACES IN THE VARIOUS PROVINCES, "MUSASHI; CHICHIBU SANCHU

Utagawa Hiroshige II, Late Edo period, dated 1859

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Okuko Hikozaemon Protects the Tokugawa Shogun from the Spear of Goro Matabei Mototsugu, from the series "The Siege of Osaka" (Osaka Gunki no Uchi)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, Meiji period, datable to 1884

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

19th centuryJapanese