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Artists

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

paper: H. 14.3 x W. 18.9 cm (5 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.)

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Travelers Waiting to Cross the Ōi River/ Kanaya, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

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Nihonbashi Street Scene

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Actors as Modern Versions of the Five Women (Tōsei gonin onna)

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Child Playing With a Toy Fox

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True View of the Foreign Buildings along the Kaigandōri Seen from the Yokohama Wharves (Yokohama hatoba yori kaigandōri ijinkan no shinzu)

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

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The Battle of the Uji River

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Picture of the Prosperity of Shintomiza

Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu 楊洲周延, 1879 (Meiji 12)

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Fond of Children (Kodomo-zuki), from the series Eight Views of Favorite Things of Today (Tosei kobutsu hakkei)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1801-1802

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Shinmachi in Spring: During a Lesson, no. 2 from the series Seasons of the Pleasure Quarters

Kitano Tsunetomi 北野恒富, 1916

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