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Artists

Katsukawa ShunkōArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 31.6 cm x W. 14.5 cm (12 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

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Actor Ichimura Kamezō as Jirō of Kyoto

Torii Kiyomitsu 鳥居清満, Edo period, circa late 1750s(?)

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

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Couple at Kamejima/ Rabbit (U) -- Kamejima, from the series Allusion to the Twelve Zodiac Animals at Famous Places in Edo for the Ichiyō Circle (Ichiyōren Edo meisho mitate jūnishi), with poems by Buntōsha Morishige and Bunpukutei Mamenari

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, 1827

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Procession of Foreign Officials Resting by River, with New Year's Greetings from Tokiwazu and Iwasawa Nagauta Troops

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

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Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784

First two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink on paper

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Actor HAYAKAWA HASSE AS A COURTESAN SEATED ON THE TRUNK OF A CHERRY TREE

Torii Kiyonobu, Mid Edo period, datable to 1710

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Letters of Returning Geese (Kigan no fumi), volume 2 from The Stone Monument of Ishibumi (Tsubo no Ishibumi)

Ishikawa Ryûsen, c. 1698

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Triptych: Stream Crossing at Night

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, 18th-19th century

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Triptych: Battle Crossing of the Sumidagawa (Sumidagawa ikada watashi no zu)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Late Edo period, 19th century

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 5th AS AN OTOKODATE

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

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Spring Flowers Arranged for a Soiree

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1765-1770

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The Juvenile Genji (Osana Genji), Vol. 2

Nonoguchi Ryūho, 1665

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Yaoya Oshichi and Koshō Kichisaburō

Koikawa Harumasa (Banki)

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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