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Artists

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Vertical ōban diptych

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Diptych: Kabuki Actors

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Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks), vol. 8

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, dated 1814-1878

Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper

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Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, Fukagawa (Fukagawa Sanjūsangendō), Number 69 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, dated 1857 (8th month)

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Traveler in a Palanquin/ Hakone, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

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Actor Iwai Hanshirō 4th AS TORA

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Court Ladies and Child Holding Pheasant's Eye Plant (Fukujusō) by Wheeled Writing Table (Fuguruma) at New Year's

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, Edo period, circa early 19th century

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Harvard Yard in Spring

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No. 11, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

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Youth Smoking on a Teahouse Verandah

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Five Women Who Loved Love (Koshoku gonin onna), Vol. 1

Yoshida Hanbei, Early Edo period, 1686

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