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Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vol. 2

1789 (Kansei 1)

Artists

Nakamura TekisaiAuthor

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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Three Women of Ohara, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802

Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper

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Hashiba Ferry on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Hashiba no watashi), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

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Mount Atago in Shiba with a Distant View of the Sea at Shinagawa (Shiba Atagoyama enbō Shinagawa no umi), from the series The Eastern Capital (Tōto)

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Taoist Immortals Tekka and Gamma, from the Kōrin gafu (Kōrin Picture Album)

Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中, 1802

Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper

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Swimming Trout

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Triptych: Ibaraki no keshin

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Two Ducks

Hashiguchi Goyō 橋口五葉, 1920 (Taishō 9), 8th month

Modern Japanese woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Hear no Evil, from the series See no Evil, Speak no Evil and Hear no Evil

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Rats and Radishes

Takahashi Hiroaki, 1926

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Actor Matsumoto Koshirō 2nd as Ogata no Saburō disguised as Matsuura Saemon in the play Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise, performed at the Morita Theater from the eleventh month of 1774

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, 1774 (11th month)

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The courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato of the Yotsume House from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)

Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784

Eighth two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

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