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ITSUKUSHIMA MEISHO ZUE in 9 volumes

Classification

Prints

Medium

Set of 9 woodblock printed books; ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

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Actor Ichikawa Ebizō as Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa from the play "Otokoyama Oedo no Ishizue - Shinobu Koi Suzume no Irodoki" (Kiri-za)

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Edo period, 1794 (11th month of Kansei 6)

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

Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

Japanese

Prints

Actor Bando Mitsugorō 3rd as Minamoto no Yorimasa (from a set of three spring kyōka surimono)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1820 (Bunsei 3)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF FUJI, "ZOSHIGAIYA FUJI MIJAYA"

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Edo period, 1858

Ink on paper

Ink on paper

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR AS A WOMAN

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Illustrated Guide to the Ise Pilgrimage (Ise sangū meisho zue), vol. 5, part 2

Shitomi Kangetsu, 1797 (Kansei 9)

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

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Kaga Sanchu

Ishii Hakutei, Taishō period?

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Pink and Yellow Chrysanthemums

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "nagasurimono" format: ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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The "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari) in Ten Volumes (Jūjo Genji), vol. 10

Nonoguchi Ryūho, Early Edo period, 1661

Woodblock-printed book with hand-colored illustrations, ink and color on paper; dark-blue paper cover

17th centuryJapanese

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Woman Buying Cloths/ Narumi, 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

19th centuryJapanese

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Improved Azuma Bridge

Inoue Yasuji 井上安治, Early Meiji period, late 19th century

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

19th centuryJapanese