PrintsJapanese

Shadows of Figures in a Room and Grasses

Artists

Nishiyama HōenArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Prints

THE SEVEN LUCKY GODS

Hosoda Eishō (Chōkōsai)

Ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Ota Dōkan, from the series Six Immortal Warrior Poets (Buke rokkasen)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1823-1827

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

PORTRAIT HEAD OF ACTOR

Kinoshita Hironobu I

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

Japanese

Prints

MAN STANDING IN HIGH WIND

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

Japanese

Prints

Actor

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Shōgi Chess Board, Chess Pieces and Spring Flowers in Blue-and-White Porcelain Pot/ Chess Pieces (Shōgi koma), from the series A Selection of Horses (Umazukushi), with poems by Shunshōtei Utsukushima and Shūchōdō Monoyana

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1822

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Iwai Kiyotarō (4th of Series of Five Actors)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Fourth panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "hosoban" pentaptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Toyokuni ga"

Japanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 2nd ("The Second Great Hakuen Danjūrō")

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, early 1830s

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

Japanese

Prints

Women Imitating a Daimyo Procession Passing Mount Fuji, leftmost sheet of pentaptych

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Sumida River in the Snow, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" diptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kiyomori Being Fanned by a Servant, from the series The Classic Nō Dances

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

Japanese

Prints

Carp in a Swirl of Water

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗, early 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese