PrintsJapanese

Red, Sea Urchin (Aka, Uni), from an untitled series of Women Compared with Colors

Artists

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Shikishiban: H. 21 x W. 17.7 cm (8 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)

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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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Kawano Kaoru, Shōwa period,

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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[Saikoku sanjūsankasho] Kannon reijōki zu e

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Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

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Interior of a Yoshiwara Tea House

Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣, Edo period, circa 1670s

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Three Cranes, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802

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Kiyomizu in Spring Snow (Haru no Yuki [Kyō no Kiyomizu])

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1932

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Komagata Hall, Azuma Bridge (Komagatadō Azumabashi), Number 62 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, dated 1857 (1st month)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Stencil for Illustrated Don Quixote (Ehon Don Kihōte)

Serizawa Keisuke, Shōwa period, published in 1936

Paper stencils

20th centuryJapanese

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Three Quarter Portrait of Actor

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

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Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vol. 8

Nakamura Tekisai, 1789 (Kansei 1)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

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Act Ten from the series Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chūshingura: Jū danme - Amakawaya)

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, circa 1779-1780

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

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Courtesans with Kamuro

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

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