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The Hundred Poets

Artists

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳Artist

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

Actor Sawamura Sōjurō 3rd as Ogishi Kurando from the Play "Hana-Ayame Bunroku Soga" (Miyako-za)

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Late Edo period, 1794 (5th month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink, color and mica on paper, with printed signature reading "Tōshūsai Sharaku ga"

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

Japanese

Prints

Mushrooms and Chrysanthemums in a Basket

Zunan

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

Japanese

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Parody of Yamauba and Kintarō, from the series Picture Siblings (E-kyodai)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, c. 1795-6

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th and 19th centuriesJapanese

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Demon in Disguise as an Old Woman Fleeing with a Severed Arm (Rōba kiwan o mochisaru zu), from the series New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjūroku kaisen)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, 1889

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

19th centuryJapanese

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America (Amerikakoku), published by Shimizuya Naojirō

Utagawa Yoshitomi, Late Edo period, sixth month of 1867

Right sheet from a Yokohama woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Yoshitora ga"

19th centuryJapanese

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Measure

Izumi Shigeru, c. 1970s

Screen print with intaglio printing of found object (metric conversion table)

20th centuryJapanese

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from the series Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Woman with Partially Unwrapped Box

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

Japanese

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Poet Sarumaru Dayū from page 3B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Momoyama period, published circa 1610

Page 3B of a thread-bound woodblock-printed book with paper cover; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

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Rough Sketches of Flowering Plants (Sōka ryakugashiki)

Kitao Masayoshi, 1813 (Bunka 10)

Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Yoshitsune as a Boy (Onzōshi Ushiwakamaru)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Late Edo period, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese