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Classification

Prints

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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TWO DANCERS IN FRONT OF A TEA HOUSE

Katsukawa Shunzan, 18th-19th century

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

18th-19th centuryJapanese

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Warriors Illustrated: China and Japan (Wakan ehon sakigake)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Late Edo period, dated to the 1st month of the 7th year of Tempō (1836)

Thread-bound ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Actor Ichikawa Danzō WITH DRAWN SWORD AND CLOTH

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

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View of the Whirlpools at Awa (Awa Naruto no fûkei), from an untitled set of three triptychs

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1857 (Ansei 4), 4th month

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Actor Nakamura Nakazō AS TACHIBANA SHIRO ARITO

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Child Playing With a Toy Fox

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

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One of Eight Printed Nō Plays published by Kōetsu (Kōetsu-bon Yōkyoku hachiban)

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Early Edo period, circa 1610

Eight thread-bound woodblock-printed books; ink on lightly-colored paper with printed designs in mica

17th centuryJapanese

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Designs for All Artisans (Banshoku zuko)

Unknown Artist

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

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Quaker Meeting

Matsubara Naoko, Shōwa period, dated 1967

Woodblock print; ink on paper with signature reading "Naoko Matsubara"

20th centuryJapanese

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Amatsukaze, from the series Classical Dances

Toshu

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

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Sei Shōnagon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Shika shashin kyō)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1833

Ink on paper

Japanese

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Windy Deity

Sasajima Kihei 笹島喜平, Shōwa period, dated 1966

Woodblock print; ink on paper with signature reading "K. Sasajima"

20th centuryJapanese