PrintsJapanese

Hokusai jimbutsu gafu

Artists

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎Artist

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

Procession of a Ryūkyūan Ambassador

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

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Great Bridge at Sanjō in Kyoto (Kyoto Sanjō Ōhashi)

Hashiguchi Goyō 橋口五葉, 1920 (Taishō 9), 1st month

Modern Japanese woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Printed Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō), Vol. 10

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, 1281-1292

10 volumes in book format; ink on paper (and with annotations in ink)

13th centuryJapanese

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An Englishman and an American Watching Lion Dancers, published by Kiya Sōjirō

Utagawa Yoshitomi, Late Edo period, third month of 1861

Yokohama woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Sayohime Thwarting an Attacker, from the series Three Famous Women

Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信, 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Yanagawa Shigenobu"

19th centuryJapanese

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Designs for Lacquer Painting (Maikie shitae)

Unknown Artist

Japanese

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Children at Play Near a Small Fire(?)

Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広, Edo period, 1782-1828

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Toyohiro ga"

17th-19th centuryJapanese

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Nocturnal Battle in Rain

Utagawa Yoshikazu, 1858, 9th month

Center sheet from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed ōban triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): 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 print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

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PLAY BILLS OF KUMAZAKA

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, circa early 18th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink on paper

Japanese

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Sacred Light of Massaki (Massaki no jintō), detached book pages from Pictures of Both Banks of the Sumida River (Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1805-06

Two adjacent two-page spreads from a woodblock-printed book; Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Meiboku Sendai Hagi

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

Japanese