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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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Early Summer in the Azalea Field

Itō Shinsui 伊東深水, Shōwa period, dated 1948

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Pilgrimage to the Unveiling of Benzaiten at Enoshima in Sagami: Caves at the Main Shrine (Sōshū Enoshima Benzaiten kaichō mōde Hongū Iwaya no zu)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, c. 1851

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

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Woman Playing a Harp, from the series Flower Gardens and Songs

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

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

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Heavenly Figure Riding Dragon/ Dragon (Tatsu), from the series Twelve Zodiac Animals (Jūnishi)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1820

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Nihon Embankment, Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara Nihonzutsumi), Number 100 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, dated 1857 (4th month)

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Ghost of Sogo's Wife (Sogo no tsuma no tamashii)

Toyohara Kunichika, Meiji period, dated to 1893

Bottom panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed vertical "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Osetsu Toyohara Kunichika"

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Courtesan Koromode with Attendants during a Lull in the Snow (Yukima no Wakanaya uchi Koromode), second from the series Views of the Nakanochō for the Hisakata Poetry Club (Hisakataya Nakanochō no ni), with poems by Suihōtei Komatsu and Hisakataya

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1825

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

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The Battle of the Uji River

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 1849 (Kaei 2)

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

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Shun the Great (Dai Shun), from the series The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijūshi kō)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Edo period, circa 1848 (Kōka 5 / Kaei 1)

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

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Illustrated Don Quixote

Serizawa Keisuke, 1936

Thread-bound book with lacquer cover; illustrations stenciled in black and hand-colored; indigo-dyed cloth-bound slip case (chitsu)

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

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