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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 5th AS A SAMURAI

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

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Travelers Passing a Village/ Yui, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

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Fungus in a Blue and White Pot

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Suminokura Soan, Momoyama period, printed 1608 (Summer)

Pair of woodblock-printed books; ink on (occasionally tinted) paper

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Clear Morning after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge (Nihonbashi yukibare no asa), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Folded book, ink on paper with red marks of punctuation and reading

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Ink and color on paper

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List of Books Brought from China, compiled by Kōbō Daishi (Shōrai Mokuroku)

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Book; ink on paper with cinnabar for markings

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Nitta Yoshisada, from the series Twenty-Four Generals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika nijūshishō)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1821

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Carrying Lunch to Rice Planters

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Diary: Jan. 19th, '98

Tetsuya Noda, 1998

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Triptych: Foreigners from the Five Nations enjoying a banquet

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Kintarō Throwing Beans at the Seko Mame Festival

Torii Kiyonaga, Late Edo period, 1803

Ink on paper

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