PrintsJapanese

Collection of Caricatures (Kyoga-en)

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Man Crossing Bridge to Shrine

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Primer on Eight Varieties of Paintings (Hasshu gafu), vol. 2

Unknown Artist

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Fuji with a Rocket (Rōen [noroshi] 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

Printed Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (S: Mahâprajnâpâramitâ-sūtra ; J: Dai-hannya-haramitta-kyō), Volume 512, Vol. 2

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, 1265

One of seven folding books; printed in ink on dyed paper with red dots of punctuation and selected readings in "kana" (Japanese syllabary) added in ink

13th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu and Bandō Sanpachi

Ippitsusai Bunchō, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Nakamura Tosshi as a Woman Standing by a Stream

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, late 18th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in hosoban format; ink, colors, and embossing on paper; with artist’s printed signature reading "Shunshō ga"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Enoshima in Sagami Province (Sōshū Enoshima no zu)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, c. 1847-1852

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

Ink on paper

Utagawa Kuniteru, Early Meiji period, late 19th century

Second sheet from right from a woodblock-printed "ōban" heptaptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Bandō Hikosaburō IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa kō, Azuma Ichinojō I as Kashitsuki Sugibae (right sheet), Onoe Kikujirō II as Besshitsu Fuji no kata (center sheet), unidentified actor as Koshimoto Kodemari, and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Ashikaga Jirō no kimi (left sheet)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 1851, 8th month

Woodblock-printed triptych; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Crow and Heron

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Mid Edo period, circa 1772

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Illustrated Guide to the Ise Pilgrimage (Ise sangū meisho zue), vol. 3

Shitomi Kangetsu, 1797 (Kansei 9)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese