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Borrowing Water

Artists

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎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. 13.9 x W. 18 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

The Interior Works of a German Battleship (Doitsukoku gunkan naikaku kikai no zu)

Unsen 雲僊, 1874

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Boy Holding a Cat

Sekino Jun'ichirō 関野準一郎, Shōwa period, dated 1957?

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

One of Eight Printed Nō Plays published by Kōetsu (Kōetsu-bon Yōkyoku hachiban)

Hon'ami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦, Early Edo period, circa 1610

Eight thread-bound woodblock-printed books; ink on lightly-colored paper with printed designs in mica

Ink on paper

Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

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

Japanese

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Actor Segawa MICHINOSUKE AS OSHIZA BUNSO'S WIFE

Utagawa Kunimasa 歌川国政

Ink and color on paper

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Prints

Kintarō Beating a Drum Followed by Four Young Oni Carrying Standards of the Four Directions

Torii Kiyonaga, Late Edo period, dated 1805

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

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Fuji from a Pine Mountain (Matsuyama no Fuji): Detached page from One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei) Vol. 1

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1834 (Tempō 5)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Genshōshichi, from the series Elegant Women's The Water Margin: From One Hundred and Eight Figures (Fuzoku onna Suikoden: Ippyaku-hachinin no uchi)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, c. 1828-1832

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

19th century BCEJapanese

Prints

Tiger Carrying Armor

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

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

Japanese

Prints

Yellow Celebrated Gold Brocade Fabric (Ki ko kinran meibutsugire), from the series Five Colors of Tea Utensils Made by Shō (Chaki goshiki shōsei)

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, 1819 (Bunsei 2; Year of the Rabbit)

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Illustrated Guide Book of Famous Places of Nara (Nanto meisho shū), volumes 1-2 bound as one volume

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1675

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

17th centuryJapanese