Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper (with printed signature on leftmost print from the same triptych reading "Ichiyōsai Toyonobu ga")

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Nō Actor Portraying a Sorcerer

Tsukioka Kōgyo, Meiji period, dated 1898

Ink, colors and metallic pigments on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Chinese Couple (Seikoku Nankin), published by Izumiya Ichibei

Utagawa Yoshikazu, Late Edo period, second month of 1861

Yokohama woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Ōmori, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Japanese

Prints

Housecleaning (Susuhaki)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1797-1799

Center panel from an "ōban" pentaptych: Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

from the illustrated book "Kachō gaden"

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗

Japanese

Prints

Snow, Boston

Saitō Kiyoshi 斉藤清, Shōwa period, dated 1963

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

EIGHT IMPORTANT SONGS, FUNA BENKEI

Ishikawa Toyomasa

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Yōrō, from the series Classical Dances

Toshu

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

Japanese

Prints

Actor Onoe Matsusuke

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, c. 1812

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

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Beauty with Child Attendant

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, 1821-25

Woodblock print (surimono); ink, light color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese