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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

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

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Poet Fujiwara no Atsutada (906-943) from page 4B of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition

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Actor Segawa Kikujirō III in a Sukeroku Play

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, about 1794

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Mokuboji Temple, Uchigawa Inlet, Gozensaihata (Mokuboji Uchigawa Gozensaihata), Number 92 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Ink on paper

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Prints

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

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Prints

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Utagawa Sadahide, Late Edo period, third month of 1862

Right sheet from a Yokohama woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Gountei Sadahide ga"

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Ink on paper

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Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

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True View of the Newly Built Azuma Bridge

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

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