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TOYS AND SHELL AND MIRAGE OF RIUGU

Artists

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono"; ink, color and metallic pigment 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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SELECTION OF OLD AND MODERN COMIC POEMS

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Ink on paper

Japanese

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Actor Ichikawa Danjurō 4th as Taira no Tomomori disguised as Tokaiya Gimpei, in the Tomomori with the Anchor (Ikari Tomomori) scene from part two of Yoshitsune's Thousand Cherry Trees (Yoshitsune sembon-zakura) performed at the Nakamura Theater

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, 1767 (seventh month)

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Momoyogusa (Flowers of a Hundred Worlds), vol. 3

Kamisaka Sekka 神坂雪佳, 1909 (vol. 1) - 1910 (vols. 2 and 3)

Woodblock-printed book; ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Illustrated Guide to Seventy-Two Types of Weather (Shichijūni-kō e-shō), 3rd of 3 Volumes

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1664

Three thread-bound books; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kingfisher on Snowy Stump

Ohara Koson, Shōwa period, 1935

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Okuko Hikozaemon Protects the Tokugawa Shogun from the Spear of Goro Matabei Mototsugu, from the series "The Siege of Osaka" (Osaka Gunki no Uchi)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年, Meiji period, datable to 1884

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Moon

Takashi Murakami, 2002

21st centuryJapanese

Prints

Evening Shower at Imaibashi (Imaibashi no yūdachi)

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1932

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

The Battle of the Uji River

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 1849 (Kaei 2)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Actor Segawa Kikunojō AS AGEMAKI

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

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

Japanese

Prints

Actor Nakamura Denkūrō 2nd as a Samurai Ready to Fight

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, dated to 1775

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; in "hosoban" format (left half of a diptych); ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shunshō ga"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

The Butterflies Chapter (Kochō): An Outing in a Chinese Dragon Boat, from an untitled series of the Tale of Genji

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, c. 1835-1836

Woodblock print; ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese