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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

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Prints

Woman Gazing at the Moon (perhaps Murasaki Shikibu)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1766-1767 (Meiwa 3-4)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Harunobu ga" (at edge of screen)

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Actor Yamashita Kinsaku as Asama, from the series Beauties of the Three Cities, Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto

Okumura Toshinobu 奥村利信, Edo period, early 18th century

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Yamato ga Okumura Toshinobu hitsu"

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The Heroic Fight of Cavalry Scout Captain Asakawa

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1895 (Meiji 28)

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

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Prints

Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Musashibō Benkei in The Subscription List (Kanjinchō)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, Meiji period, datable to 1890

Right panel from a woodblock print (nishiki-e) triptych; ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper

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Prints

Utagawa Yoshifuji, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Primer on Eight Varieties of Paintings (Hasshu gafu), vol. 1

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View of Ise Divers Processing Abalone (Ise no ama nagaawabi tsukuri no zu)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

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

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Prints

Woman with Drum: from Hisagataya Club Series of Five Musical Instruments

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1827-1829

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

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Actor Nakamura Denkūrō 2nd WEARING A STRIPED ROBE AND HOLDING A SWORD

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, 1770s

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Triptych: Yakusha jigao mitate [?] [?] Chūshingura

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, 18th-19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

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Ink on paper

Saitō Kiyoshi 斉藤清, Shōwa period, dated 1962

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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