PrintsJapanese

Tokaido meisho zue in 2 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

Related Artworks

Prints

Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光, Meiji period, circa late 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print: ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Fuji on New Year's Day (Gantan no Fuji): Detached page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 1

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1834 (Tempō 5)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Korin

Munakata Shikō 棟方志功, Shōwa period,

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Gomo, from The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshikō)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Picture Book of Comic Poems, Mountains Upon Mountains (Ehon kyōka yama mata yama), vol. 3

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, 1804

Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Box of Kimono Silks

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

Japanese

Prints

Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Evening at Gion

Tsuchiya Kōitsu, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Two West Side Wrestlers, Mikuniyama Hyodayu and Edogasaki Genji

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period,

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Gemini, from the Zodiac Series

Kurosaki Akira, Shōwa period, circa 1973

One of a set of twelve woodblock prints; ink, color and gold on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Beauties from Osaka, Edo and Kyoto by Utamaro, Kunisada and Tsukimaro, with poems by Santō Kyōzan, Tatekawa Danjūrō and Jippensha Ikkusen

Kitagawa Utamaro II, Edo period, datable to 1813

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Onoe Kikugorō AS A WOMAN DANCER

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

No. 23, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1847-1852 (Kōka 4- An'ei 5)

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

19th centuryJapanese