PrintsJapanese

Actor Ichikawa UMEZO AS A SAMURAI

Edo period,

Artists

Katsukawa ShunkōArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" 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

Procession of Women Carrying Palanquin

Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広, 19th century

Six of eight(?) ukiyo-e book pages from a continuous woodblock-printed composition; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Stencil for Illustrated Don Quixote (Ehon Don Kihōte)

Serizawa Keisuke, Shōwa period, published in 1936

Paper stencils

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

FAMOUS PLACES OF THE 53 STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO, " OKABE" (STATION 22)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, 1855

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Suminokura Soan, Momoyama period, printed 1608 (Summer)

One of a pair of woodblock-printed books; ink on (occasionally tinted) paper

17th centuryJapanese

Prints

Daikoku Riding a Large Rat

Katsushika Hokuichi, Late Edo period, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Sea-Bathing Beauty

Terasaki Kōgyō, Meiji period, dated 1903

Kuchi-e woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Kōgyō" and seal reading "Sōzan" (alt. "Shūzan")

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Woman on Verandah with Scroll and Attendant

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Edo period, circa 1770s

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Bird

Nagai Kiyoshi (?), 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Mosquito Net (Kaya), from the series Model Young Women Woven in Mist (Kasumi-ori musume hinagata)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1794-1795

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Dancing Girl Mimyō from the Mirror of the East (Maime Mimyō: Azuma kagami), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1821-1822

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

The Courtesan Tagasode of the Tamaya

Kitagawa Utamaro II

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Makuboji, Courtesan Painting Her Eyebrows

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)

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

Japanese