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Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks)

19th century

Artists

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Century

19th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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Foreign Brick Building on the Yokohama Waterfront (Yokohama kaigan gaikokukan rengadukuri no zu)

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Night Scene Outside the Kamakura Castle with Bannai Attacking Kanpei, Act 3 from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chūshingura)

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THE SIX FAMOUS POETS, "KISEN HOSHI"

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Ink on paper

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Attacking Pyongyang: The Japanese Army Forged through the Enemy Stronghold (Heijō Kōgeki waga gun tekiruio nuku)

Mizuno Toshikata, Meiji period, dated 1894

Right panel from a woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

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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

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Fuji Carved (Kizami no Fuji): Detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 2

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Travelers Passing Along a Hill/ Ejiri, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

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Poet Tōzandō Bokuryō in Contemplation in His Studio

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Oiran and Kamuro Walking Beneath Cherry Blossoms, with poems by Isshōtei, Emaya and Shippōtei

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Kamuro with Shamisen and Kamuro(?) with Fan, from the series Fūryū kodomo asobi

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Young Girl by a Well, from the series Three Women

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