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Artists

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Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

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Tōeizan Temple at Ueno (Ueno Tōeizan), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1844

Japanese

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TOKAIDO GOJU-SAN-TSUGI

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Keinen's Album of Birds and Flowers (Keinen kachō gafu)

Imao Keinen, 1892

Woodblock-printed book (4 volumes); ink and color on paper

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from the series Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza jūniko)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Ink on paper

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono"; ink and color

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ENJOYING THE EVENING BREZE AT RYOGOKU BUNGE

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

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Two Women and Child Looking at River from Verandah

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, circa 1796

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

18th-19th centuryJapanese

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Kogane Plain in Shimōsa Province (Shimōsa Kogane hara), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

19th centuryJapanese

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Works by Katsushika Hokusai (Katsushika shinso gafu), Vol. 1

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

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Five Women Who Loved Love (Koshoku gonin onna), Vol. 3

Yoshida Hanbei, Early Edo period, 1686

Third of a set of five thread-bound, woodblock-printed books; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

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Detached front cover of the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802

Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Parody of the Nō Play Hakurakuten (Two Figures Standing in Boats: Chinese Scholar Holding an Ink Orchid Painting and Japanese Girl Holding a Harunobu Bijin Pillar Print Scroll)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1769-1770 (Meiwa 6-7)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Harunobu ga" (on woman's scroll)

18th centuryJapanese