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A New Year's Dance

Artists

Kitao ShigemasaArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

paper: H. 25.8 x W. 37.7 cm (10 3/16 x 14 13/16 in.) block: H. 22 x W. 37.1 cm (8 11/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

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Woman Leading on a Small Wheeled Writing Table (Fuguruma) / Ruyang, from the series Eight Drinking Immortals (Inchu Hassen), with poems by Ryokuchikutei Kisui and Inchūtei Iyakado

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

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Autumn View of Takanawa (Takanawa aki no kei), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

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Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1823-1827

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No. 21, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

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ACTOR AS WOMAN SEATED WITH TEAPOT

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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