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PROGRAM OF KABUKI PLAYS

Artists

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国Artist

Teisai Hokuba 蹄斎北馬Artist

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "naga-surimono" format; 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

Story of Devadatta, from Chapter 12 of a Printed Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō); Kasuga Edition, from Kōfuku-ji, Nara

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, circa 1250

Folded woodblock-printed book; text printed in ink on paper; ruled guidelines in gold and punctuation in red; mounted on paper decorated with cut silver and gold leaf

13th centuryJapanese

Prints

Ferries Crossing the Fuji River/ Kanbara, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Shrine Girl (Miko) Wearing High Geta and Holding Robe Over Her Head representing Humanity (Jin), from the series of Five Virtues for the Katsushika Group (Katsushika goban), with poems by Shunhan, Shogan and Shofudai

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, Edo period, circa early 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF FUJI, "MOTOGUCHIDORI"

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

No. 35, Goyu, from the series The Tōkaidō Road, The Fifty-three Stations (Tōkaidō, Gojūsan tsugi no uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1850-51

Japanese

Prints

Nun

Ikeda Shūzō 池田修三, 1958

Woodblock print; ink on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

View of the Pleasure Quarters of Yokohama (Yokohama kuruwa no zu)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 1860 (Man'en 1), 6th month

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

from the illustrated book "Kachō gaden"

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗

Japanese

Prints

THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF YEDO "YANAGISHIMA MIYOKEN"

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Inside Kameido Tenjin Shrine (Kameido Tenjin keidai), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1856 (Ansei 3), 7th month

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Rabbit Pounding Rice in a Mortar

Unknown Artist, 1855 (Ansei 2)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa Umezō 1st (paired with ōtani Hiroji 3rd)

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, 18th-19th century

Left half of an ukiyo-e woodblock printed "hosoban" diptych ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"

18th-19th centuryJapanese