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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

Dimensions

paper: H. 21.2 x W. 19 cm (8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.)

Related Artworks

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Battle of Okehazama in Bishū, Owari Province (Bishū Okehazama kassen)

Utagawa Toyonobu, Meiji period, dated 1883

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper (with printed signature on leftmost print from the same triptych reading "Ichiyōsai Toyonobu ga")

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Bookstore, Seine, Paris

Saitō Kiyoshi 斉藤清, Shōwa period, dated 1960

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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from the illustrated book "Kachō gaden"

Katsushika Taito II 二代葛飾戴斗

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Fuji in a Window (Sōchū no Fuji): Detached 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

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Awazu, from the series Eight Views of Lake Biwa (ōmi hakkei)

Itō Shinsui, 1917

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Newly Published View of a Performance at Sakaichō (Shinpan tōto Sakaichō ōshibai no zu)

Utagawa Yoshimaru, 19th century

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WOMEN IN BLACK AND YELLOW STRIPED KIMONO

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

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

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Prayer (Buddha)

Takahashi Rikio, Shōwa period, dated 1958

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Ryōan-ji, Kyoto

Saitō Kiyoshi 斉藤清, Shōwa period, dated 1960

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Two Crabs by Stream, with poems by Bunshōsha Ashichika, Fumi no Kaname, Bunryūdō Wasui and Bunbunsha

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, light color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Pheasant (Kiji) and Swallows (Tsubame), detached page from the book Myriad Birds: A Kyōka Competition (Momo chidori kyōka awase)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, c. 1790 (Kansei 2)

Detached page from woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Scene from the play "Imoseyama"

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

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

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