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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

Cover from a large accordion-fold printed book "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, 1784

Detached Preface from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

5th of 10 GRAPHIC SCENES OF THE JAPAN EXPEDITION BY WILLIAM HEINE

Unknown Artist, 19th century

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

A WHITE TURTLE AT SHINOBA LAKE

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei), Vol. 3

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, circa 1835-1847

Thread-bound ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book in "hanshi-bon" format; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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

Chinese Poet Li Bo (699-762) Drinking Sake from a Large Cup with Three Japanese Women

Teisai Hokuba 蹄斎北馬

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Moon Viewing at Takanawa on the Night of the Twenty-sixth (Takanawa Nijūrokuya), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1844

Japanese

Prints

Actor Onoe Kikugorō as Soga no Tarō Sukenobu, in the play "Ume-ya Suisen Izu no Irifune" at the Morita Theater, 1763

Torii Kiyomitsu 鳥居清満, Edo period, circa 1763

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Torii Kiyomitsu zu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Amaterasu ōmikami with Guardians Myōjin and Taga Myōjin

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Hand-colored Shinto woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Mother and Child

Kaburaki Kiyokata 鏑木清方, Meiji period, circa 1900

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Primer on Eight Varieties of Paintings (Hasshu gafu) in 5 volumes

Unknown Artist

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Wisteria at Kameido, from the series Ten Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho jikkei)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, 1808, 4th month

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese