Courtesans

Yoshida Tōshi 吉田遠志, Shōwa period, dated 1956

Walking Stone

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Actor Ichikawa Yaozō in the Role of a Boatman(?)

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

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

Women by Verandah (Harusame no kei)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

ITSUKUSHIMA MEISHO ZUE, Vol. 7

Unknown Artist

Ink on paper

Moon Pine, Ueno (Ueno sannai Tsuki no matsu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

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

Woman with Partially Unwrapped Box

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

Yui: Satta Peak (Yui, Satta mine), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1833-34

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

Actor Sakata Hangorō 2nd

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

Three Travelers Waiting for Ferry by Tenryū River/ Mitsuke, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; Ink and color on paper

Gazing at the Sea (Mitsumeru umi)

Murakami Gyōjin, Shōwa period, dated 1969

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Finding Moronao in the Storage/ Act 11 (Jūichi dan me), from the series The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; Ink and color on paper

Fan with Flying Crow and Fan with Poems against a Stream Bed (Ōgi nagashi), from the series Polyptych of the Five Colors on Floating Fans (Goshiki bantsuzuki), with poems by Kajitsuen Umenobu and Yorokobiya Kazuo

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, circa 1818-1830

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