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Primer on Eight Varieties of Paintings (Hasshu gafu) in 5 volumes

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

28.3 x 21 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Related Artworks

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ACTOR WITH SWORD

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Teppōzu and Tsukiji Hongan-ji Temple (Teppōzu Tsukiji Monzeki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), here called One Hudred Views of Edo for Entertainment (Edo hyakkei yokyō)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Actor Ichikawa Ichizō

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Diptych: Festival (Women in Boat by Bridge)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "oban" diptych(?); ink and color on paper

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Hollyhock, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802

Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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A Cloudy Day in Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no kumoribi [Ibaraki-ken])

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1945

Sketch; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Red Seed

Mizufune Rokushū, Shōwa period, circa 1960s

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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The Sacrifice of the Three Trees

Toshu

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

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Zhangsheng Palace (Chōseiden), spring kyōka surimono

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, 1831

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Actor Bandō Hikosaburō in the Soga Brothers' Revenge [from a two-panel composition with a similar print of Ichimura Kamezō]

Torii Kiyomitsu 鳥居清満, Edo period, circa 1750s

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Hunting Habit, Whip, Arrows and Fan

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono"; ink, color, metallic pigment and mica on paper

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Ōtomo no Kuronushi, from the series Modern Children as the Six Poetic Immortals (Tōsei kodomo rokkasen)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, c. 1804

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese