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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

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

Prints

Tea House Hostess Standing by Rest Stand/ Snake (Mi) -- Ike no Hata, from the series Allusions to the Twelve Zodiac Animals at Famous Places in Edo for the Ichiyō Circle (Ichiyōren Edo meisho mitate jūnishi), with poems by Bunseisha Okizumi, Shimaoi Itohi

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, 1827

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Scene from Kabuki Theatre: Shower of Flames

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Late Edo period, circa 1857-1862

Left panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Peacock and Peony, from the series Seven Bird-and-Flower Prints for the Fuyōren of Kanuma in Shimotsuke Province (Yamagawa Shimotsuke Kanuma Fuyō-ren kachō shichi-ban tsuzuki no uchi)

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満, Edo period, circa 1810

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Foreigners: Chinese (Daishinjin), Korean (Chōsenjin), Dutch (Orandajin), Ryūkyūan (Ryūkyūjin), and Russian (Oroshiyajin)

Unknown Artist, Late Edo period, ca. 1840

Nagasaki woodblock print; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Reflection in Lake Misaka, Kai Province (Kōshū Misaka suimen), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1831

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper; with printed signature reading "zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

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Travelers Passing a Village/ Yui, 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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Attacking Pyongyang: The Japanese Army Forged through the Enemy Stronghold (Heijō Kōgeki waga gun tekiruio nuku)

Mizuno Toshikata, Meiji period, dated 1894

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Russian Couple (Oroshiajin), published by Manya Yoshibei

Utagawa Yoshikazu, Late Edo period, eighth month of 1861

Yokohama woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese