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Artists

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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THE SEA WITH MOUNTAINS.

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Honma Suketada (Taiheiki), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō), with poem by Sashukutei Kitaru

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1821-1822

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Collection of Illustrations of Japanese Agriculture (Yamato kōsaku e-shō)

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Accordion-fold books (four); ink on paper

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Gathering Rape Seed (Natane tsume)

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An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Kinmō zui)

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, dated 1668

Eleventh of a set of fourteen thread-bound woodblock-printed volumes; ink on paper

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No. 4, Kanagawa: View over the Sea from the Teahouses on the Embankment (Kanagawa, dai no chaya kaijō miharashi), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1855, 7th month

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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

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Gathering Rushes (Tokusa kari), from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Shika shashin kyō)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1833

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

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CHINESE SAGE GIVING PEACHED TO MONKEYS

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

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

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Actor on Stage as Jurōjin(?)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 19th century

(Fragmentary?) ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Kunisada ga"

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Komatsu Shigemori (Heike monogatari), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō), with poem by Kanenoya Arizumi

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1821-1822

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Railway Line at Takanawa (Takanawa tetsudō no zu)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, Tenth month of 1871

Center sheet from a woodblock print (nishiki-e) triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese