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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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Untitled (memo pad)

Emiko Kasahara, 1997-1998

Collage of hair on paper pulp, assembled in the form of a memo pad

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New Year's Sunrise at Susaki, with poem by Chihaya no Furinushi

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period,

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

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The Courtesans Watarai and Shigenoi from the Mara Ebiya

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

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Courtesan Walking by Cherry Trees (Hana okamiyako)

Hishikawa Morofusa, Edo period, 1700

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper

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Poem by Sōjō Henjō (Yoshimine no Munesada), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1835-6

Ink on paper

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FIGURE IN ELABORATE COURT ROBES AND 3 CRAVE FIGURE S ABOVE TOPE OF PINE TREES

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Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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CONTESTS OF THE FAVORITE COURTESANS,"HANATERU OF OGIYA"

Kitagawa Utamaro II

Ink on paper

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Hanging Scroll, Otafuku and Jurojin

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

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Actor Otani Hiroji ON HORSEBACK HOLDING A SPEAR

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

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Fishing Village

Maeda Masao, Shōwa period, mid 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Okuko Hikozaemon Protects the Tokugawa Shogun from the Spear of Goro Matabei Mototsugu, from the series "The Siege of Osaka" (Osaka Gunki no Uchi)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, Meiji period, datable to 1884

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Descending Geese at Katada (Katada rakugan), from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei)

Murai Fusatane, 1854, 9th month

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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