PrintsJapanese

SELECTION OF OLD AND MODERN COMIC POEMS

Artists

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Prints

Courtier Visiting Lover with text beginning "He hid by the brushwood fence and looked in expectantly..." (Machikaki shibagaki no moto ni tachikakurete mitareba...), from the series The Changelings (Torikaeba monogatari), with poem by Warakuen Harumitsu

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

Evening Scene at Kandagawa

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1881 (Meiji 14)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

East of the Sea

Mizufune Rokushū, Shōwa period, circa 1960s

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Visit of the Emperor to the Nijō Castle, Procession in the Kan'ei Era (Kan'ei gyōkō-ki)

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Second of a set of three (hand-colored) woodblock-printed handscrolls; ink and colors on mica-coated paper

17th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Isai Kumesaburō (One of Three Kabuki Actors)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, Late Edo period, circa 1820-1825

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tomomori Catching the Oil Thief

Unknown Artist

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

Japanese

Prints

Pine Cones and Maple Leaf

Unknown Artist, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Work-7

Tsubota Masahiko, 1976

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tatekawa in Honjo (Honjo Tatekawa), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1831

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Nakamura Theater

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Late Edo period, circa 1811-1814

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Housecleaning (Susuhaki)

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

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Pheasants beneath Flowering Cherry

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese