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HAIR DRESSING

Artists

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 39 cm x W. 26.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

The courtesans Hitomoto and Tagasode of the Daimonji 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, 1783

Detached illustration from a large accordion-fold printed book; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Kitao Rissai Masanobu ga" and seal reading "Soseki"

18th centuryJapanese

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Shrine in Moonlight

Yatsunami Settai, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Military Maneuvers

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, Meiji period, late 19th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Mitate of Letter-Reading Scene from Chūshingura

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Edo period, circa 1776-1777

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Center sheet of triptych Children at Play: Tennō Festival (Kodomo asobi Tennō matsuri)

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, 19th century

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

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Ikaruga-dera in Early Autumn

Hiratsuka Un'ichi 平塚運一, Shōwa period, dated 1942

Woodblock print; ink on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Attack at the Site of the Hundred-Foot Cliff

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1895 (Meiji 28)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

A Banquet with Entertainment

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之, about 1795 (Kansei 7)

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光, Meiji period, circa late 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print: ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Ladies Imitating a Courtly Insect Hunt, center sheet of a triptych

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Travelers Eating Clam/ Kuwana, 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

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR AS A WOMAN

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese