One of seven folding books; printed in ink on dyed paper with red dots of punctuation and selected readings in "kana" (Japanese syllabary) added in ink

13th centuryJapanese

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Night Patrol in the Snow near Niu-chuang (Gyūsō fukin setsuya no sekkō)

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, Meiji period,

Left panel from a woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Black (Kuro), from the series The Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono"; ink, color, mica and metallic pigments on paper

Japanese

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Actor with Drawn Sword

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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

18th centuryJapanese

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Annual Record of Eastern Capital (Toto saijiki)

Hasegawa Settan, 1838

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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SMALL SERIES OF THE 53 STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO, "GOYU", STATION NO. 36

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Primer on Eight Varieties of Paintings (Hasshu gafu), vol. 2

Unknown Artist

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

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Sacred Light of Massaki (Massaki no jintō), detached book pages from Pictures of Both Banks of the Sumida River (Ehon Sumidagawa ryōgan ichiran)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1805-06

Two adjacent two-page spreads from a woodblock-printed book; Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Two Women with Children on a Bridge

Torii Kiyonaga

Ink on paper

Japanese

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 8th Making Debut Performance of Shibaraku, with poems by Sanjō (father Ichikawa Danjurō 7th) and Bunbunsha

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Edo period, circa 1830-1843 (Tempō era)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi-ban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

Ink and color on paper; drypoint

21st centuryJapanese