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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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Pictures of Girl Meditating and Plum Tree through Window, from the series Ten Designs for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren jūban tsuzuki)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1820

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

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Illustrated Narratives of the War of Han and Chu (Ehon Kanso gundan), vol. 9

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

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Puppet Woman's Head

Kamei Tōbei, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Leaf and Butterfly

Hamaguchi Yōzō, Shōwa period, dated 1972

Mezzotint; ink and color on paper

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Printed Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō), Vol. 8

Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, 1512

Handscroll; ink on paper with guide lines in gold

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

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

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Travelers on a Ferry/ Maisaka, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; Ink and color on paper

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One of Eight Printed Nō Plays published by Kōetsu (Kōetsu-bon Yōkyoku hachiban)

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Early Edo period, circa 1610

Eight thread-bound woodblock-printed books; ink on lightly-colored paper with printed designs in mica

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Spirit of the Heron (Shirasagi no sei)

Taniguchi Kōkyō, Taishō period, circa 1918

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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"Kaigun shoko to seishin no senryaku toron suru zu"

Mizuno Toshikata, Meiji period, dated 1894

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

19th centuryJapanese

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"THE MOUNTAIN WATER CARRIER"

Unknown Artist

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Numazu: Twilight (Numazu, tasogare zu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tōkaidō or Great Tōkaidō

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1833-34

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

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