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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

Rock Shelter on Fuji (Fuji no muro): Detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 2

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1835 (Tempō 6)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Elegant Sites of the Capital at a Glance (Teito gakei ichiran), 3rd of 4 Volumes

Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳, Late Edo period, 1809-1816

Woodblock printed book; ink and light color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Nakamura Denkūrō 2nd as a Wrestler

Katsukawa Shunkō, Edo period, circa 1770-1777

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Sodegaura (Sodegaura): Detached page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 1

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1834 (Tempō 5)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Parody of the Nō Play Hakurakuten (Two Figures Standing in Boats: Chinese Scholar Holding an Ink Orchid Painting and Japanese Girl Holding a Harunobu Bijin Pillar Print Scroll)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1769-1770 (Meiwa 6-7)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Harunobu ga" (on woman's scroll)

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

UNIDENTIFIED ICHIKAWA ACTOR (PROBABLY MASUZO OR SANSHO) BENEATH A MAPLE TREE

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Autumn Flowers, 9th Month (Chrysanthemums and Sake Cup), with poems by Yomobito Shirazu (ōta Nampo?), Tōkaidō Hayabumi and Haginoya-ō

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

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "mutsugiri-ban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper (with vertical lay lines) with printed signature reading "Shōsadō hitsu"

Japanese

Prints

Actor TANIZAWA SEIJIRO

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

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

Japanese

Prints

Illustrated Views of Kyoto (Karaku saiken zu)

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Folded, woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

View of Ushijima across the Asakusa River from the Mouth of the San'ya Moat (Asakusagawa San'ya-bori iriguchi mukai Ushijima no kei), from the series The Eastern Capital (Tōto)

Shōtei Hokuju

Ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Illustrated Book of Famous Historical Stories from the Chinese and Japanese (Ehon kojidan), vol. 4

Tachibana Morikuni, 17th-19th century

Ink on paper

17th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Various Moths and Butterflies, from the series An Illustrated Collection of Butterflies (gunchō gafu)

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, c. 1814-1818 (late Bunka Era)

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

19th centuryJapanese