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Artists

Torii Kiyomitsu II (aka Kiyomine)Artist

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

Prints

Picture Book of Seasoned Grass (Ehon chiyomi-gusa): Beauties with Waka, 3rd of 3 Volumes

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信, Mid Edo period, 1755

Thread-bound books (three); ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Illustrated Book on Anuual Events in the Gay Quarters (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) Volume Two

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, published in 1804

Volume Two of an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book in two [blue-and-white-covered] volumes; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Courtesans on New Year's Day

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

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

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Five Pictures of Low Tide, "Woman Beside an Anchor with a Flounder"

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Ink on paper

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Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, c. 1765–70

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Karuizawa, Station 19 from the series "Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaidō" (Kisokaidō rokujūkyūtsugi no uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, circa 1839

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Evening Shower at Imaibashi (Imaibashi no yūdachi)

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1932

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Oharame Picking Plum Flowers

Kitao Shigemasa

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

Japanese

Prints

Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke (Ichikawa Danjūrō 2nd) and Nakamura Takesaburō as an Oiran

Torii Kiyonobu, Edo period, circa 1715

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print (adjacent book pages?); ink, color and metal filings on paper, with printed signature reading "Torii Kiyonobu hitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Various Haiku Composed by Kabuki Actor Banto Enkaku and His Pupils

Kou

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

Japanese

Prints

Clown Acrobat

Mori Yoshitoshi, Shōwa period, dated 1960

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Bai Juyi (Hakurakuten), from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Shika shashin kyō)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1833

Ink on paper

Japanese