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Classification

Prints

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Prints

A Woman Brushing Her Teeth

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

Japanese

Prints

Bamboo Yards, Kyōbashi Bridge (Kyōbashi Takegashi), Number 76 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, dated 1857 (12th month)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Courtesan Shizuka of the Tamaya (Tamaya uchi Shizuka) from the series "Shin Yoshiwara Edo machi" (Shin Yoshiwara Edo machi)

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Edo period, 1779-1780

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Osan and Mohei, from the series "True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love" (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1798-1799

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kabuki actors in the story of Jōrurihime and Ushiwakamaru

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, circa 1715

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Washing the Manuscript, from the series Refined Beauties as the Seven Komachi (Fūryū bijin nana Komachi: Soshi arai Komachi)

Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山, circa 1804

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Housecleaning (Susuhaki)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1797-1799

Fifth panel from an "ōban" pentaptych: Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Horses in the Pasture (Hōba)

Nakayama Tadashi, Shōwa period, dated 1961

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Bag of Historical Treasures and People of Japan and China (Ehon shahō-bukuro), 9th of 10 Volumes

Tachibana Morikuni, Mid Edo period, dated 1770

Thread-bound woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Courtesan Looking at Kimono Train/ Willow Tea (Yanagi-cha yui), from the Series for the Willow Group (Yanagi bantsuzuki), with poems by Ryūgentei Karakoto and Ryūtarin Senjō

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period,

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

No. 19, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1847-1852 (Kōka 4- An'ei 5)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Cool Evening (Suzumi), from the series Twelve Figures of New Beauties (Shin bijin jūni sugata)

Itō Shinsui, Taishō period, dated 1922

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese