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Designs for All Artisans (Banshoku zuko) in 3 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

22.2 x 14.8 cm (8 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Warrior Watari Shinzaemon (?) Grappling with a Guardian Statue

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Edo period, circa 1820s

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

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Actor Onoe Matsusuke WITH SWORD AND PARASOL

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

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ZOJOJI TEMPLE GROUNDS AT SHIBA, from the series Famous Places of the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink and color on paper

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Contemporary Famous Happenings (Kinsei kisekikō) in 5 volumes, with designs by Kita Busei (1776-1856)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Late Edo period, dated to the 1st year of the Bunka Era (1804)

Set of 5 ukiyo-e woodblock-printed books; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Playing a Female Role and Ichikawa Actor Playing a Shibaraku Role

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

Pair of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper

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Nakai Conducting a Guest, page from the printed book "Poems of the Male and Female Mane'emon" (Haikai Meoto Mane'emon)

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Edo period, circa early 1770s

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed illustration from "ōbon"-format book; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

TOMBI KARASU NO MIBURI (IMITATING A CROW AND A HAWK)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Prints

The Ox Festival

Yokoyama Kazan, 18th-19th century

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

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Prints

Aries, from the Zodiac Series

Kurosaki Akira, Shōwa period, circa 1973

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

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Prints

Sarutahiko, No. 2 (Sono ni) from the series The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, 1825

Woodblock print (ukiyo-e, surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

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Yoritomo, a Girl and a Crane, from the series Famous Warriors

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

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Girl Playing Koto by Chigaidana

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1765-1770

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

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