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BOOK OF KESA

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

Related Artworks

Prints

Mount Fuji from Behind, from the series One Hundred Views of New Japan (Shin Nippon hyakkei)

Fukazawa Sakuichi, Shōwa period, dated 1939

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Libra, from the Zodiac Series

Kurosaki Akira, Shōwa period, circa 1973

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

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Oiran Seated on Cherry Tree Trunk

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, datable to 1715

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink, color and metal filings on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Mimasaka Province, Yamabushi Valley (Mimasaka, Yamabushidani), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, 1853 (Kaei 6, 12th month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Hiroshige hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Wild Boar Meat

Kitao Shigemasa, 1815 (Bunka 12; Year of the Boar)

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Lower Meguro (Shimo-Meguro), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1831

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper; with printed signature reading "zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kiyomizu Temple (Shimizu), from the series Seven Komachi in Fashionable Disguise (Fūryū yatsushi nana Komachi / Fūryū nana Komachi yatsushi)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, 1766-1767 (Meiwa 3-4)

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Shōno: Driving Rain (Shōno hakuu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1833-36

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Poetry Slips

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, 1794 (Kansei 6)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Poet Fujiwara no Nakafumi from page 13B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Momoyama period, published circa 1610

Page 13B of a thread-bound woodblock-printed book with paper cover; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

Prints

Two Women Visiting Enoshima

Torii Kiyonaga, Edo period, circa 1784

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Persimmon and Cicada, with poem by Chikujin (or Takehito)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

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

19th centuryJapanese