PrintsJapanese

Asleep at His Work

Artists

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

paper: H. 21.6 x W. 18.9 cm (8 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.)

Related Artworks

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Courtesan Utagawa of the Matsubaya (Matsubaya no Utagawa)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1799

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

18th centuryJapanese

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Crow on Plum Branch in Rain

Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

Ink on paper

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Prints

Woman Tuning Shamisen, Number One (Sono ichi) from the series Three Musical Instruments (Sankyoku)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, probably 1822 (Year of the Horse)

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono "shikishi" triptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu"

Japanese

Prints

The Courtesans Azumaya and Kokonoe of the Matsukane House, from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784

Sixth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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No. 22, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1847-1852 (Kōka 4- An'ei 5)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Poet Fujiwara no Kanesuke (877-933) from page 4A of the printed book of "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), Kōetsu edition

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Momoyama period, published circa 1610

Page 4A of a thread-bound woodblock-printed book with paper cover; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese

Prints

Signal K

Saitō Kiyoshi 斉藤清, Shōwa period, dated 1962

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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

Japanese

Prints

ACTORS

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Ink on paper

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Prints

Cloudy Day at Yagushi

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1919

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Fuji in the Mountains of Taisekiji Temple (Taisekiji no sanchū no Fuji): Half of detatched page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 2

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1835 (Tempō 6)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed book page; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Harbor of the Black Sea (Kurodumi no funatsukiba)

Ono Tadashige, Shōwa period,

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese