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Artists

Kitao MasayoshiArtist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink and color

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Prints

The Courtesan Tagasode of the Tamaya

Kitagawa Utamaro II

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

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Returning Sails at the Wharves (Hatoba no kihan), from the series Eight Views of Yokohama in Bushū (Bushū Yokohama hakkei no uchi), published by Yamadaya Shōjirō

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, Late Edo period, first month of 1861

Yokohama woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Yoshitora ga"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Plowing

Asano Takeji, Shōwa period, mid 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Diptych: Festival (Women in Boat by Bridge)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "oban" diptych(?); ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Pheasants beneath Flowering Cherry

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period,

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Warrior on a White Horse, Felling an Opponent

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋, Mid Edo period, circa 1764-1780

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Hauling the Fish Nets at Dawn in Katase/The Purple Shell (Murasakigai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase), with poems by Tsuki no ya Shitakage and Yomo no Utagaki no Magao

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, datable to 1821

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

WOMAN WITH SAMZIN IN RED AND WHITE KIMONO/ It is Favorable to ___ (___), from the Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, circa 1824

Ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Eleven-headed Kannon with Flask and Lotus Flower

Unknown Artist, Edo period, 18th century

Buddhist woodblock print; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Illustrated Satirical Poems About Famous Scenic Views in Edo (Kyōka Edo meisho zue), Vol. 8

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Late Edo period, dated 1856 (Ansei 3, 5th month)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Triptych: Scene from the play "Imoseyama"

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Three Wrestlers: Hatsugamine, Onogawa and Kiyomiyama

Katsukawa Shunkō

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed keyblock in "ōban" format; ink on paper with printed signature reading "Shunkō ga"

Japanese