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Artists

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 41.7 cm x W. 21.5 cm (16 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

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Contemporary Famous Happenings (Kinsei kisekikō), Vol. 4, with designs by Kita Busei (1776-1856)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Late Edo period, dated 1804 (1st Year of the Bunka Era)

Fourth of a set of 5 ukiyo-e woodblock-printed books; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Illustrated Guide Book of Famous Places of Nara (Nanto meisho shū), volumes 9-10 bound as one volume

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 1675

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

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Festival (Women in Boat by Bridge)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "oban" diptych(?); ink and color on paper

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Station 29 -- Mitsuke, Tenryū River View (Mitsuke Tenryūgawa zu), from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi no uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Mino Province, Yōrō Waterfall (Mino, Yōrō no taki), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, 1853 (Kaei 6, 8th month)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Printed Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō), Vol. 2

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10 volumes in book format; ink on paper (and with annotations in ink)

13th centuryJapanese

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō AS A SAMURAI

Katsukawa Shunjō, Edo period,

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

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Li Bai (Ri Haku), from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Shika shashin kyō)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1833

Ink on paper

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Nō Actor Portraying a Sorcerer

Tsukioka Kōgyo, Meiji period, dated 1898

Ink, colors and metallic pigments on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Fuji Under Clear Skies (Kasei 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

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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

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Courtesan Arranging Flowers, with poems by Ryūsuitei Sodezumi and Senryūtei Karamaru

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1818-1830

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

19th centuryJapanese