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Japanese Woodblock Figures

Traditional woodblock prints featuring actors, courtesans, and scenes with vibrant colors and intricate patterns reflecting Japanese culture.

Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as a Courtesan's Attendant 1794-95 Tōshūsai Sharaku Japanese. Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as a Courtesan's Attendant 37382
Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as a Courtesan's Attendant 1794-95 Tōshūsai Sharaku Japanese. Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as a Courtesan's Attendant 37382
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Japan: Traditional crafts and trades of the 18th century from a hand-painted album by an anonymous artist. Folio 27: (left)
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Lappen Fabric, Anonymous, 1850 - 1860 print Lapping fabric and a box with hairpins, with a ludging text with the 'decorated fan'. paper color woodcut textile fabric, cloth. oriental ideographic script (Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
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Bed-clothing Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese. Bed-clothing 54502 Artist: Ryuryukyo Shinsai, Japanese, active ca. 17991823, Bed-clothing, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 11/16 x 7 1/2 in. (14.4 x 19.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (JP1938)
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Tokimune, Sukenari, Kikko Kojiro and Aiko Saburo fighting in the rain, from the series Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue) 1838-1852 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Hiroshige
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Stingray and Gurnard. Artist: Ryuryukyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799-1823). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 7 9/16 in. (14.3 x 19.2 cm). Date: probably 1815. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Huang Tingjian (Ko Teiken), from the series Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko) 1843-1855 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Hand-coloured illustration from a Japanese miscellany on traditional trades, crafts and customs in mid-18th century Japan, dated Meiwa Era (1764-1772) Year 6 (c. 1770 CE).
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 9 June 1892) one of the last great masters of the classical Japanese colour woodcut, here the work Mount Miyaji Moon
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Murasaki Shikibu, from the series Ukiyo-e Genji 1705-1715 Japan. Woodblock print; oban . Okumura Masanobu
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Le poisson volant, Buhot, Félix Hilaire (1847-1898), 1872 - 1878, Japanese, Women, Supernatural beings
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Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Sesame oil
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Book titled Japanese topsy turvydom" with colourful illustrations. Patton, Emily, Sophia (1831-1912), writer
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (30 April 1839 9 June 1892, also named Taiso Yoshitoshi) was a Japanese artist. He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional woodblock printing. Eimei nijuhasshuku (28 Famous Murders with Verse), also known as the 'Bloody Prints', is a collection of Japanese ukiyo-e from the 1860s, which depicted gruesome acts of murder or torture based on historical events or scenes in Kabuki plays. Although most of the works are solely violent by nature, it is perhaps the first known example of ero guro or the
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The Hahakigi Chapter from The Tale of Genji (Genji Hahakigi), from a series of Genji parodies 1705-1715 Japan. Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e . Okumura Masanobu
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Toba Style Caricature, late 19th century, Hasegawa Mitsunobu, Japanese, act. c.1720s-1750s, 9 5/8 x 6 11/16 x 1/2 in. (24.4 x 17 x 1.2 cm), Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, Historic reproduction of original book published in 1772. This edition published in the Meiji period.
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Dutch (Orandajin), from the series "People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku no uchi)". Utagawa Kunihisa II; Japanese, 1832-1891. Date: 1861. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.