PrintsJapanese

Society for the Picturing of Famous Places on the Kiso Road (Kisoji meisho zukai ichikan)

Artists

Nishimura ChûwaArtist

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

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Printed Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (S: Mahâprajnâpâramitâ-sūtra ; J: Dai-hannya-haramitta-kyō), Volumes 511, 512, 513, 514, 516, 517 & 518 in 7 volumes

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, 1265

One of seven folding books; printed in ink on dyed paper; red punctuation dots

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

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Hunting

Okamura Kichiemon, Shōwa period, dated 1964

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Birth of a Mixed-Blood Child of the Foreigner Kinmei Urai and the Daughter of Sakubei, from Yokohama matsudai banashi

Unknown Artist, c. 1860

Woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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WOMAN SEATED ON THE GROUND

Shigenobu, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke), from the series "Beauties of the Yoshiwara" (Seirō bijin awase)

Eishōsai Chōki, Mid to Late Edo period, circa 1780-1805

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink, colors and black lacquer on paper, with printed signature reading "Chōki ga"

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Actor Ichikawa Komazō II in a Sukeroku Play

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, about 1794

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

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Sergeant Kawasaki Crosses the River Daidōkō Alone (Kawasaki gunsō tanshin Daidōkō o wataru)

Mizuno Toshikata, Meiji period, dated 1894

Center panel from a(n incomplete) woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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The Courtesans Azumaya and Kokonoe of the Matsukane House, from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784

Sixth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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No. 25, Nissaka: Mount Mugen, the Night-crying Stone, and Sayo Mountain Pass (Mugenzan, Yonaki-ishi, Sayo-no-nakayama), from the series The Tōkaidō Road, The Fifty-three Stations (Tōkaidō, Gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1850-51

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Clear Weather after Snow at Massaki (Massaki yukibare no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

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Court Lady in a Field of Young Pines

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗

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

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