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19th century

Artists

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Century

19th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

vertical ōban: H. 37.1 × W. 26 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Fuji from the Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshū Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

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Woman Looking at a Caged Nightingale

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Contemporary Famous Happenings (Kinsei kisekikō), Vol. 5, with designs by Kita Busei (1776-1856)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Late Edo period, dated 1804 (1st Year of the Bunka Era)

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Three Women Gathering Clams at Enoshima, with poems by Bunsōsai Matsutoshi (Shōnen), Fumimado Takeo, and Bunsōan Hirotaka (Kōyō)

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗, Edo period, circa early 1830s

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Street Scene with Geisha and Courtesan (Totō Han'ei no zu)

Utagawa Yoshikazu, Late Edo period, circa 1855

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

Imao Keinen, 1892

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Moon Pine, Ueno (Ueno sannai Tsuki no matsu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Braving the Bitter Cold, Our Troops Set Up Camp at Yingkou

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1895 (Meiji 28)

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No. 19, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1847-1852 (Kōka 4- An'ei 5)

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Shun the Great (Dai Shun), from the series The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijūshi kō)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Edo period, circa 1848 (Kōka 5 / Kaei 1)

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Night Rain at Gankirō (Gankirō yoru no ame), from the series Eight Views of Yokohama, Bushu (Bushu Yokohama hakkei no uchi), published by Yamadaya Shōjirō

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, Late Edo period, first month of 1861

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Unknown Artist, Late Edo period, ca. 1840

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