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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

Related Artworks

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Lyrique No. 2: Lyrique on Musical Themes: Ravel, Morning Song of a Pierrot

Onchi Kōshirō, Shōwa period, dated 1933

Woodblock print; ink, colors and mica on paper, and with a stamped signature reading "Onzi" (in Latin letters, not Japanese)

20th centuryJapanese

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Stencil for Illustrated Don Quixote (Ehon Don Kihōte)

Serizawa Keisuke, Shōwa period, published in 1936

Paper stencils

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

21st centuryJapanese

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Woman Folding Kimono

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, late 18th-early 19th century

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

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Falcon on Plum Branch, from the series A Collection of Thirty-Six Birds and Animals (Sanjūroku tori zukushi)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, circa 1825

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in shikishi format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper with printed signature reading "Hokkei"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Clear Moonlight at Mitsumata (Mitsumata no meigetsu), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)

Torii Kiyonaga, Mid Edo period, dated 1781

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Kiyonaga ga"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke AS SOGA NO JURO

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

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Prints

Li Qi (J: Riki)/ Metal (Kane), from the series Five Elements of the Tale of the Water Margins (Suiko gogyō), with poems by Seiyōkan Umeyo (Baise) and Kagendō Tsugiho

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, probably 1832

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Go Hokkei"

19th centuryJapanese

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Actor Iwai Hanshirō 4th as Otafuku with Young Boy and Ema Plaque Shrine Offering

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, 1821

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Autumn Moon at Seto (Seto shūgetsu), from the series Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Perspective Picture of the Sakai-chō Theater, Edo (Uki-e Edo Sakai-chō shibai no zu)

Rekisentei Eiri 礫川亭永理 (鳥橋斎栄里), mid 18th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Hideyoshi and his Five Wives Viewing the Cherry Blossoms at Higashiyama

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1803-1804

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and colors on paper with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese