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Artists

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重Artist

Classification

Prints

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 2nd as a Komuso

Torii Kiyomasu, Mid Edo period, datable to 1730

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink, color and metal filings on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Illustrated Narratives of the War of Han and Chu (Ehon kanso gundan), part 2, vol. 8

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Courtesan Seated with Shamisen/ Osaka, from the series History of the Three Kingdoms, Courtesans in Peach Banquet (Sangokushi Tōen yakko), with poems by Fukkindō Sadao and Fukkintei Sunago

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

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Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Abalone Diver Nursing a Child, center sheet of incomplete triptych

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, c. 1797-98 (Kansei 9-10)

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Defying a Shower of Bullets, He, Alone, Opened Hyonmu Gate

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1894 (Meiji 27)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Diptych: Perspective View of Dancers in an Interior

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

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Braving the Snow, Our Troops Capture the Stronghold at Weihaiwei

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1895 (Meiji 28)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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TWO GIRLS WALKING

Hosoda Eishō (Chōkōsai)

Ink and color on paper

Japanese

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Illustrated Study of Japanese Things (Ehon Yamato hiji), vol. 2

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信, 1742 (Kanpō 2)

Woodblock-printed book; ink and hand-applied color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Oyashirazu Beach (Oyashirazuhama), from the series Famous Sights of Japan (Nihon meishō zue)

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1897 (Meiji 30)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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Two Samurai

Mori Yoshitoshi, Shōwa period, dated 1964

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese