PrintsJapanese

Cards and Fukujusō Flower

Artists

Kitao ShigemasaArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono": ink, colors 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. 19.5 x W. 18.1 cm (7 11/16 x 7 1/8 in.)

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Poem with Woman Looking at Moon (Gotokudai-ji no Sadaijin)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1765-1770

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Matsubara Naoko, Shōwa period, dated 1959

Woodblock print; ink on paper

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Two Courtesans Greeting Travelers/ Shinagawa, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

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Young Man Watching Woman Writing, detatched frontispiece from the Cuckoo's Verse Picturebook (Ehon haikai yabukodori)

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, published 1888

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Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, Edo period, circa 1790s

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Actor Bandō Hikosaburō V, from the series Portraits as True Likenesses in the Moonlight (Makoto no tsuki hana no sugata-e)

Utagawa Yoshiiku 歌川芳幾, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Triptych: Marionette Theater Scene

Utagawa Kunisada III 歌川国貞, 1893

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Mandarin Oranges in Lacquer Bowl, with poems by Banmensha Hayanori, Sotei Watanari, Asaka Manji, Sōchōsha Renjaku, Katainaka Katakoto and Teikunsha Ayando

Hishikawa Sori, Edo period, dated 1804

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

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Teppōzu and Tsukuda Island (Teppōzu Tsukudajima), The Temple of Bush Clover at Oshiage (Oshiage Hagidera), and Dancers in the Festival of Oji Shrine from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

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The Courtesans Watarai and Shigenoi from the Mara Ebiya

Kitagawa Utamaro II, 19th century

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Night Rain at the Shinobazu Pond

Kasamatsu Shirō, 1938

Polychrome woodblock print

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