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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

Pilgrim and Travelers Looking at a Cave Shrine/ Futagawa, 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

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Triptych: Sumō Wrestling Tournament (Kanzin ōsumō torikumi no zu)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Late Edo period, 1858

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Standing Woman Holding Tanzaku (Poem-Slip)

Okumura Masanobu, Edo period, circa 1740-1750

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and colors on paper, with printed signature reading Hōgetsudō Okumura Masanobu shōhitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

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Edo Firemen Demonstrating Ladder-climbing During Festival

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光, Meiji period, circa late 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print: ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 5th

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

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

Japanese

Prints

BAMBOO AND SWALLOW

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

IRIS AND WAGTAIL

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Well-Cleaning Fuji (Ido-sarae no Fuji): 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

Steam Engine and Rickshaws

Unknown Artist, late 19th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Woman Cutting an Iris Leaf Arrow

Harukawa Goshichi (Kamiya Hōshū), mid-1820s

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa Komazō 2nd AS A SAMURAI

Katsukawa Shunkō, Edo period,

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

Japanese