PrintsJapanese

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke AS A KUMOSUKE

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. 31.7 cm x W. 13.6 cm (12 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Book of Famous Works of Chinese and Japanese Painters (Wakan meihitsu gaei), Volume 6

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Thread-bound books (two); ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō 3rd Holding a Sword (with Arashi Ryūzō Holding an Umbrella)

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, 18th-19th century

Right half of an ukiyo-e woodblock printed "hosoban" diptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

A Bag of Satirical Poems of Ancient and Modern Times (Kokon kyōka bukuro)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid to Late Edo period, circa late 18th to early 19th century

Thread-bound ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book in a blue paper cover; ink and color on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Momijigari, from a series of Play Bills of Kumazaka

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, circa early 18th century

Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks), vol. 2

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1814-1878

Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Defying a Shower of Bullets, He, Alone, Opened Hyonmu Gate

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1894 (Meiji 27)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Crawfish

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, circa early 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "nagaban" format; Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Purple Inkstone of the Ming Dynasty (Minchō shiken) in 3 volumes; after “Living Garden of Ming-dynasty Painting” (Minchō Seidō Gaen) originally published by Ooka Shumboku (1680-1763) in 1746

Hishiya Magobei, 19th century

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

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

Prints

BAMBOO AND SWALLOW

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Courtesans on New Year's Day

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

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

Japanese

Prints

Tōeizan Temple at Ueno (Ueno Tōeizan), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese