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Katsukawa Shunchō 勝川春潮Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 38.1 cm x W. 25.5 cm (15 x 10 1/16 in.)

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BUNYA NO YASUHIDE, ONE OF THE SIX IMMORTAL POETS

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Self Portrait

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Detailed Image of Yokohama Honchō and the Minatozaki Pleasure Quarter (Yokohama honchō ... ni Minatozaki saiken zu)

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Stencil for Illustrated Don Quixote (Ehon Don Kihōte)

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Actor Nakamura Nakazō 1st as Kume no Heinaizaemon disguised as Street Fortune-Teller Kōsaka Jinnai in the play Kotobuke Banzei Soga, performed at the Ichimura Theater from the fifth month of 1783

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The courtesans Koi Murasaki and Hana Murasaki of the Kado Tama 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)

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