PrintsJapanese

Women Stretching Cloth

Artists

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono or page from a printed book; ink and color on paper, and with printed signature reading "Sōri Aratame Hokusai Tatsumasa ga"

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

24.5 x 35.1 cm (9 5/8 x 13 13/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Fuji in the Mountains of Taisekiji Temple (Taisekiji no sanchū no Fuji): Half of detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 2

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1835 (Tempō 6)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tōjin, from the series Amusements of the Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara (Seirō Niwaka zensei asobi)

Eishōsai Chōki, 18th and 19th centuries

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

18th and 19th centuriesJapanese

Prints

10 GRAPHIC SCENES OF THE JAPAN EXPEDITION BY WILLIAM HEINE

Unknown Artist, 19th century

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Procession of Foreign Officials Resting by River, with New Year's Greetings from Tokiwazu and Iwasawa Nagauta Troops

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Fuji on New Year's Day (Gantan no Fuji): Detached page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 1

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1834 (Tempō 5)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Woman Looking at a Caged Nightingale

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, early 19th century

Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

White Herons and Iris

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, 1830

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Writing Materials, Pot of Adonis (Fukujusō) and Screen

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, c. 1820

Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tai Fish, Squid, and Shells

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎, Late Edo period, circa early 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Onnagata Ichikawa Shōchō 2nd as Oman, from the series Twelve Actor Prints (Jūni yakusha-e)

Yamamura Toyonari, Taishō period, dated 1920

Woodblock print; ink, color and mica on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei), Volumes 1 & 2

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1834-1835 (Tempō 5-6)

Woodblock-printed books; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsuba 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, color and gauffrage on paper

18th centuryJapanese