Modern Beauty Practicing Jōruri Music (Tōsei jō jōruri)

Actors ōtani Hiroji 3rd and Sakata Sajūrō as Wrestlers with a Boy

Ippitsusai Bunchō 一筆斎文調, Edo period, circa 1765-1792

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

Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa in Edo (Tōto Asakusa Hongan-ji), 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

GIRL AND ACTOR

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Actor MORITA KANYA 6TH AS A YAKKO

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

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

Japanese

Page from Hagoromo (Feathered Robe)

Matsubara Naoko, Shōwa period, circa 1984-1986

Large album of woodblock prints; ink (or ink and colors) on mulberry paper

Butterfly Dance - Summer (AP)

Yoshida Chizuko 吉田千鶴子, 1984

Zinc plate and woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Hour of the Rat [midnight]: The Mistress (Ne no koku, mekake), from the series A Clock of the Customs of Beauties (Fūzoku bijin tokei)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, c. 1798-1799

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

Kashigayadani no uki

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1936

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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"

Courtesan and Guest with Mosquito Net

Shiba Kokan, Edo period, circa 1772-1773 (Meiwa 9-10)

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