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Woman Bending to Embrace Child

Artists

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 36.2 cm x W. 24.0 cm (14 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

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Musashi no Kuni: Chōfu no Tamagawa

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Late Edo period, circa 1847-1852

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga"

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Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō VII and His Son Ichikawa Ebizō VI (Danjūrō VIII)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1830

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

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Courtesan Shioginu of Tsutaya (Tsutaya uchi Shioginu) from the series Models for Fashion: New Year Designs (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō)

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Edo period, circa 1778-1780 (An'ei 7-9)

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

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Two Dancers, from the series The Classic Nō Dances

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Poems by Fifty Poets: The Satirical Poems of the Eastern Melodies Newly Engraved in the Temmei Era (Temmei shinsen gojūnin isshu azumaburi kyōka bunko)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1786 (1st Month of the 6th Year of the Temmei Era)

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Mount Fuji Viewed during a Fine Wind on a Clear Morning (Gaifū kaisei), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

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

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Illustration of the 47 Loyal Ronin; Master Bidding Farewell to His Servant

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Woodblock print; ink on paper

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Actor Iwai Hanshirō as Courtesan Miyagino

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 1835

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Self-Portrait

Munakata Shikō 棟方志功, 1959

Woodblock print; ink on paper

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Travelers Passing by Mt. Fuji/ Yoshiwara, 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

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Two Figures in Rain

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Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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TWO WOMEN WITH DOG

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Ink on paper

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