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ACTORS

Artists

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 38.6 cm x W. 26.3 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Related Artworks

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The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784

Second two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Poem by Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1835-6

Ink on paper

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OTOMO KURONOSHI, ONE OF THE SIX IMMORTAL POETS

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

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

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Women by Verandah (Harusame no kei)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

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Prints

Young Man (Actor Shirai Gompachi?) as a Komusō

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

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hashira-e" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Suzuki Harunobu ga"

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Shinbashi Bridge

Mutō Rokurō, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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The Bugaku Dance Sanju Hajinraku

Takashima Chiharu, 18th and 19th centuries

Woodblock print (ukiyo-e, surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

18th and 19th centuriesJapanese

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Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vol. 2

Nakamura Tekisai, 1789 (Kansei 1)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

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Prints

No. 3 (Dai san), from the series Eight Scenic Places in Henan Province, China (Kanan hasshō)

Bunsei

Ink on paper

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Minamoto Tametomo, from the series The Unofficial History of Japan (Nihon gaishi no uchi)

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1884 (Meiji 17)

Woodblock print (nishiki-e): ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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A HUNDRED VIEWS OF FAMOUS PLACES IN THE VARIOUS PROVINCES, "MUSASHI; CHICHIBU SANCHU

Utagawa Hiroshige II, Late Edo period, dated 1859

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese