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Artists

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英Artist

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

Dimensions

Paper: H. 31.0 cm x W. 14.2 cm (12 3/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

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Courtesan Tokaeri of Matsubaya with Attendants and New Year's Decorations (Kadokazari no Matsubaya uchi Tokaeri), fourth from the series Views of the Nakanochō for the Hisakata Poetry Club (Hisakataya Nakanochō no yon), with poems by Fukusaitei Shimemaru

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1825

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Falcon on a Perch

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Harbor of the Black Sea (Kurodumi no funatsukiba)

Ono Tadashige, Shōwa period,

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Illustrated Guide to Seventy-Two Types of Weather (Shichijūni-kō e-shō), 3rd of 3 Volumes

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1664

Three thread-bound books; ink on paper

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Quiet Rain

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Blue-Green, Willow (Ao, Yanagi), from an untitled series of Women Compared with Colors

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The Pleasures of Cherry Blossom Viewing

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Triptych: Yakusha butai no sugata-e

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Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych(?); ink and color on paper with printed signatures reading "Toyokuni ga"

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An Unidentified Actor

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, late 18th century

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The courtesans Hanaōgi and Takigawa of the Ogi House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, 1784

Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink and color on paper

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Woman and Child

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Ono no Komachi on the Veranda, with a Nobleman and Page Looking In

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