Japanese Woodblock Prints

Captivating color woodblock prints illustrating traditional Japanese scenes, performances, and cultural narratives, expressing beauty and detail.

The oiran Chodaya and Hanafusa of Okamotoya arranging plum blossoms in a bronze vase. (Minokoku - the Hour of the Snake), 1815, Woodcuts, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

Haruka and Haruji of the Kadotamaya as Soga no Goro and Asaina Saburo in the armor-pulling scene, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1771-1786. Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 7 5/8 in. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

O-Kiku and Kyogoku Takumi; poem by Sagami; print 65 from the series: Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Imitations of one hundred poems by one hundred poets). Utagawa, Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), graphic artist

Dainagon Kintô, 1843-1845 print Princess Yuki with her father's sword behind her back, looks at a dragon in the waterfall. Scene from a kabukitis piece. Poem by Dainagon Kintô. paper color woodcut waterfall. dragon. sitting on the ground - AA - female human figure

The oiran Chodaya and Hanafusa of Okamotoya arranging plum blossoms in a bronze vase. (Minokoku - the Hour of the Snake), 1815, Woodcuts, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

Actor Bando Minosuke (Mitsugoro III) with a dancer in a mask symbolizing goodness. Utagawa, Kunisada I (1786-1864), graphic artist

Screen and Lady's Work-Box. Artist: Ryuryukyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799-1823). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 5 7/16 x 7 3/8 in. (13.8 x 18.7 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Segawa Kikunojo V Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858). The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Segawa Kikunojo V, ca. 1835. Woodblock print, 8 8/16 x 7 3/8 in. (21.6 x 18.7 cm). Although Hiroshige was best known for his landscapes, he also designed some kabuki subjects, including this privately published surimono print. Surimono were created for the members of poetry clubs, who exchanged them with other clubs. Because they were printed in small runs and for a private sponsor, these prints were often made from very finely carved blocks, employing deluxe techniques such as embossing and materials such as metallic pigments. Two verses from the poetry club are included in the upper left corner of this composition. Asian Art ca. 1835

Number four: girl sliding poem; No Yon; See flowers; Hanami. A girl is sitting on a red dress under a blooming cherry tree and behind her a curtain. She licks her brush to prepare a writing a poem on the paper for her. The emblem on the curtain is that of the Hanagasa poetry association, who has spent this Surimono. The three poems on this print also seem to be part of the curtain.

Seated Beauty Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770).. Woodblock color print, Other (Left print, sight): 8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (22.5 x 15.6 cm). Asian Art

Geisha and Peacock on Plum Tree, 1868 - 1912 print A circular cartouche with a portrait of a geisha and a fan -shaped cartouche with a peacock surrounded by clouds. With one poem about a peacock. paper color woodcut courtesan, hetaera. ornamental birds: peacock

Osome and Hisamatsu. Okumura Toshinobu; Japanese, active c. 1717-50. Date: 1715-1725. Dimensions: 28.0 x 15.6 cm (12 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.). Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, beni-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Yang Guifei Plum, from the Series for the HanazonoClub. Artist: Totoya Hokkei, Japanese, 1780-1850

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Iwai Hanshiro VI 1836 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Woman from Daimyo Household with Attendants 1796, year of the dragon Kubo Shunman Japanese. Woman from Daimyo Household with Attendants. Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757-1820). Japan. 1796, year of the dragon. Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Uratsu Kihei Hidenao Nyūdō Ryūen creeping with the sword, board 42. From the series: Biographies of the faithful Roninów / Seichū Gishi Den Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

Komatsu Shigemori from the Tales of Heike (Komatsu Shigemori, Heike monogatari), from the series Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko) 1816-1826 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Yashima Gakutei

Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints 19th century Utagawa Kunisada Japanese. Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints 36686

Competition Between Poets of Different Eras (Jidai fudō uta awase), depicting the poet Minamoto no Hitoshi 13th century Calligraphy attributed to Fujiwara no Nobuzane Japanese This hanging scroll illustrates part of an imaginary poetry competition among fifty poets from the past. The selection of poems from old anthologies and their arrangement into "competing" pairs is traditionally attributed to Emperor Gotoba (1180-1236), perhaps Japanese poetry's greatest patron. The Metropolitan's painting shows the sixty-first round, which pits Minamoto no Hitoshi (880-951) against the Lady Ichinomiya Kii (d. ca. 1113). The first of three poetry exchanges is recorded in a soft broad hand above a portrait of the male poet:Why is itthat love persistswhen deeply hidden, asa field overgrown in bamboo grassat middayIchinomiya Kii replies:The fields of bush clover at Manoare tangled and tossedin the autumn wind;for the dew that clings to its blossomsthere is no repose.The rest of this fictional exchan

Shiba Shôjô writes on a pillar of a bridge, Totoya Hokkei, c. 1821 print Shiba Shôjô (d. 126 BC) writes a wish on a pole on the banks of a waterfall. With two poems. Japan paper color woodcut column, pillar ~ architecture. writing tools. waterfall

Two women beneath cherryblossoms. Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu I, Japanese, 1809-1879

Actor Jitsukawa Enzaburō I as the Filial Son Yojriō. Utagawa Kiyosada (Japan, active circa 1848). 1848. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

Beautiful girl and Ebisu under an umbrella on a snowy day; surimono. Utagawa, Toyohiro (1773-1828), graphic artist

Demon Ibaraki (Ibaraki no Keshin) and Watanabe Genji Tsuna with the poem Chûnagon Yakamochi, No. 6 from the series "Imitation of the collection from Ogura - one poem from one hundred poets

Woman Tying Her Hair (from the series Famous Restaurants of the Present Day), c. early 1820s. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865). Color woodblock print; image: 36.6 x 24.2 cm (14 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.).

The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as Ushiwakamaru, Segawa Kikunojo I as Oroku, and Otani Oniji I as Matano Goro in the play Sazareishi Suehiro Genji, performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744 1744 Japan . Torii Kiyomasu II

Beauties Harvesting Bracken, from the series Gekkos Miscellaney by Ogata Gekko (Japanese, 1859-1920), circa 1886-1899, Japanese Art

Arashi Rikan II in a Kabuki version., C. 1830 - c. 1832 print The Kabuki actor Arashi Rikan II, probably in the role of Ogata Rikimaru, depicted between two large toads. paper color woodcut tailless amphibians: toad. actor (on the stage)

Cock Eyeing a Free-standing Screen Painted with Cock, Hen, and Chicks, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo), vol. 1. Artist: Yanagawa Shigenobu (Japanese, 1787-1832). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in. (19.5 x 27.6 cm). Date: probably 1813.Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year's greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyoka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.This album belongs to a set of three compiled by Hayashi Tadamasa, the great Parisian dealer of Japanese art. Hayashi arranged the more than four hundred prints in the set on facing leaves according to themes, or in a way that created an attractive arrangeme

Boyasha Sonnijo; All 108 heroes of the beloved Suikoden; Tsuzoku Suikoden Goketsu Hyakuhachinin No Hitori. Boyasha Sonnijo struggling with her opponent and his horse in the snow.

Mother and daughter, Joren Hokutei, c. 1823 A woman bites pieces of paper off a long letter, from which her daughter then folds cranes. A kimono hangs over a rack in the background. With one poem about a young woman who folds cranes with her child. Japan paper color woodcut shore-birds and wading-birds: crane

Kiyohara no Fukayabu. Hishikawa Moronobu (attributed to) (Japan, circa 1618-1694). Japan, circa 1670. Prints; woodblocks. Hand-colored woodblock print page from a book, hand-applied mica

Chinese philosopher with crane, Totoya Hokkei, c. 1810 - c. 1820 A Chinese philosopher with Chinese boy (Karako) and Kraanvogel. With two poems. Japan paper color woodcut A Chinese philosopher with Chinese boy (Karako) and Kraanvogel. With two poems. Japan paper color woodcut

Woman at the loom, surimono. Shigenobu, Yanagawa (1787-1832), graphic artist

Tori-oi-bune, from the series Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue) 1893-1903 Japan. Color woodblock print . Tsukioka Kôgyo

Wakana tsumi, Picking spring greens., Ryuryukyo, Shinsai, approximately 1764-1820, artist, between 1804 and 1818, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 13.9 x 18.4 cm., Print shows two women gathering spring greens.

The Poet Fujiwara No Michinobu Ason. Terrified Woman and a man with a knife, from the series: icitation of oguras choice, poetry of a hundred poets /ogura magai hyakunin isshu

Actor iChikaiwa Danjûrô II; Actor Ichikaiwa Danjûrô II, the grand hakuen; Nidaime Dai Hakuen Danjûrô; Danjûrô Family of Kabuki actors. The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II (1688-1758) in the role of Soga No Gorô No Tokimune, in the play Yanone Goro. This series is an ode to the famous Ichikawa Danjûrô actors, with approval by Ichikaiwa Danjûrô VII (1791-1859) itself, with its seal (kiwame) and other name Sanshô VII. Slightly later reissation with an added pattern in the margin around the portrait. With one poem.

Young peasant woman looking from behind a rice stack - actor Iwai Kumesaburô as Kasane. Utagawa, Kunisada I (1786-1864), graphic artist

The heel block shell; Itayagai; A comparison game of poems; Kasen awase. A woman gets vegetables on a chopping block. She is sitting on a veranda. Behind her, in the doorway, a watching woman. With two poems.

Ichikawa Danjr VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke Looking at Himself in a Hand Mirror. Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I, Japanese, 1769-1825

Stage Ichikawa Danjûrô II Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II, the great Hakuen Nidaime Dai Hakuen Danjûrô (title on object) Danjûrô family of Kabuki actors (series title), The kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II (1688- 1758) in the role of Soga no Gorô no Tokimune, in the play Yanone Gorô. This series is an ode to the famous Ichikawa Danjûrô actors, with the approval of Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (1791-1859) himself, with his seal (kiwame) and other name Sanshô VII. Slightly later reissue with an added pattern in the margin around the portrait. With one poem., Toyokuni (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), Japan, 1830, paper, colour woodcut, h 180 mm × w 172 mm

Kanjo, Court lady., between 1830 and 1868, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25 x 18.4 cm., Print shows a woman, full-length, from behind showing the length of her hair.

Beni-gai, hora-gai, urauzu-gai, wasure-gai, chiyonohana-gai, and masuho-gai, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)". Kitagawa Utamaro ; Japanese, 1753 ()-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Two men under a pine, Totoya Hokkei, 1821 Two men sitting under a pine near a lantern, looking at the first sunrise of the year. On the lantern the year is indicated as the year of the snake. With four poems. Japan paper color woodcut Two men sitting under a pine near a lantern, looking at the first sunrise of the year. On the lantern the year is indicated as the year of the snake. With four poems. Japan paper color woodcut

SARUMARU Dayû, 1845-1846 print Soga Gorô as a child with manuscript over his shoulder. Scene from a kabukitis piece. Poem by Sarumaru Dayû. paper color woodcut scroll - LL - scroll unfolded. child

Monkey with enclosed paint standard. A monkey has a paint standard and the sweets are now on the ground. In the foot, the numbers are 1,3,4,6,8,12. These are the short months from the monkey year 1812. With one Anonymous Haiku poem.

Quartz beads with a bag of brocade, A bag decorated with floral brocade on the outside and with flowers in blind print on the inside. With one poem. A copy from the 1890s., Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1890 - c. 1900, paper, colour woodcut, h 193 mm × w 174 mm

Woman in a boat. A kegame in a boat with a hand drum next to her. With four poems.

The Drinking Match: First Entry on the Left, MythicalApe. Artist: Ry?ry?kyo Shinsai, Japanese, 1764-1820

The Poetress Murasaki Shikibu from the book One Hundred Poets in Eastern Brocade. Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan, 1726-1792). circa 1775. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print from an illustrated book

Shakuhachi, (a kind of bamboo flute), with Its Cover and Cherry Flowers 19th century Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese. Shakuhachi, (a kind of bamboo flute), with Its Cover and Cherry Flowers 54039

The Greedy Old Woman Leaving the Three Sparrows. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892). Japan, circa 1886. Prints; woodblocks. Diptych; color woodblock print

Bando Hikosaburo III in the Role of Obiya Choemon and Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Role of Shinanoya Ohan. Artist: Toshusai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794-95). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (36.8 x 25.1 cm). Date: 1794-95. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Surimono of Armed Warrior on Horseback Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780-1850). , ca. 1822. Color woodblock print on paper, 8 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. Asian Art ca. 1822

Ashi-gai, hamaguri, ko-gai, suzume-gai, akoya-gai, and katashi-gai, from the illustrated book Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto) 1789 Japan . Kitagawa Utamaro

Making Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1816-1833. Dimensions: 20.0 x 17.5 cm. Color woodblock print with metallic pigments and blindprinting (as a result of forgetting to ink the group of extra slats of bamboo); surimono. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Clever Woman: Through the Parents Moralising Spectacles. Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese, 1753-1806

Scene from a Play Katsukawa Shunshō　川春章 Japanese. Scene from a Play 56057

Young man dancing with the head of a horse Bokusen, Hyakusai (1736 1824)

Bai Sheng (Hakujisso Hakusho), from the series One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori) 1822-1835 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Sixth Month (Rokugatsu), from an untitled series of genre scenes in the twelve months, with kyoka poems 1787-1798 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Kitagawa Utamaro

Tôbôsaku steals immortality cakes, Yanagawa Shigenobu (i), c. 1822 - c. 1828 A Chinese man quickly looks around, while taking two peaches from a bowl. The man, Tôbôsaku, is an adviser to the Chinese Han Keizer Wu t'i. He is depicted while he grows immortality of a pikkens that the emperor got from a goddess. The one who ate such a peach would become immortal. With two poems. Japan paper color woodcut

Japan, Utagaki Magao, Yomo no, Chimata, Ryûsai, Hinashi, Momogaki, Chiharu, Takashima, Noh plays, Santeba jinraku, Dancer, passe-partout, lower left - printed, A dancer in a Noh play, performing a classical court dance (gagaku) with outstretched arms. In the foreground a spear. This surimono contains three poems., print, prent, surimono, prints, Japan (collection), recto - stamped, verso - stamped, height 209 mm, width 184 mm, Japanese, 1777 - 1859, print maker, printmaker, 1823 - 1823, first quarter 19th century, paper, colour woodcut, poet, 1753 - 1829

The Courtesan Takao Leaving Against a Window. Artist: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 11 x 12 1/4 in. (27.9 x 31.1 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Preparations for the New Year, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo, vol. 1). Artist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780-1850). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm). Date: 1817.Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year's greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyoka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.This album belongs to a set of three compiled by Hayashi Tadamasa, the great Parisian dealer of Japanese art. Hayashi arranged the more than four hundred prints in the set on facing leaves according to themes, or in a way that created an attractive arrangement of designs, complementary in both color and shape. The

The Beginning of the Korean Incident (Sono hajime Chosen hottan). Adachi Ginko; Japanese, active c. 1874-97. Date: 1894. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Adachi Ginko.

Taoistic non -neat Huang Zhuping (kôshôhei) transforming stones in Kozio from the Kotobuki Goban-no Uchi cycle (fifty for example); Yanagawa, Shigenobu I (1787-1832); around 1890 (1891-00-00-1910-00-00);Mokrzycki, Ryszard - collection, woodcuts, Japanese (culture), Surimono, Japanese art, ukiyo -e, purchase (provenance)

Print. Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 7/16 x 7 3/8 in. (21.4 x 18.7 cm). Date: ca. 1840. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Number two: Chinese woman with dragon, Yashima Gakutei, c. 1830 print A woman plays the koto under a pine, which has turned a dragon. The woman could be the goddess Benten or the Chinese goddess of the West, HSI Wang Mu. Number two from a series with two poems. Later copy. Japan paper color woodcut dragon

Woman in a boat, anonymous, c. 1830 - c. 1835 A court lady in a boat with a hand bun next to her. With four poems. Japan paper color woodcut

Sparrow-shell, from the series Genroku Poem-Shell MatchingGame. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese, 1760-1849

Five Knipplaatjes, Hiroshige (I), Utagawa, 1858 print Leaf with five small prints against yellow background; branch with plum blossom; boats at full moon in Susaki; Courtisane, seen on the back; sparrows with bamboo in the snow; Bed linen behind a folding screen, with poem. print maker: Japanpublisher: Tokyo paper nishiki-e / color woodcut birds. flowers. traffic on the water

Onoder Jūnai Hidetomo covering his eyes, board 9. From the series: Biographies of the faithful Roninów / Seichū Gishhi Den Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

MAKING PLUM SAKE, KEISAI EISEN, 1824 print A kettle for making plum senkee on a bowl with a lacquered tray with a sake set next to it. For the foreground a book and a plum blossom branch in the background. With two poems. The monkeys on the Sake head, refer to the new year of the monkey, 1824. paper color woodcut trees: pine. tree: plum-tree

The Actors Kameya Jujiro I as Soga no Juro and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oiso no Tora in the play Hatsu Hikage Maizuru Soga, performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1737 1737 Japan. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e . Torii Kiyonobu II

Two Puppets Resting Against a Box, 1818 print Two paper dolls lean against a box. In the foreground is scissors, a piece of fabric and a print with the image of the treasure ship. Such a print was placed under the pillow in the old year in the hope of the 'first happiness dream of the new year'. With four poems. paper color woodcut containers. (playing with) dolls. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries

Illustrations on Bugaku Yusaigen Chiharu Japanese. Illustrations on Bugaku. Yusaigen Chiharu (Japanese). Japan. Ink on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Illustrated Books

Letter-box and Toothpick Holders 19th century Totoya Hokkei Japanese. Letter-box and Toothpick Holders 54111 Artist: Totoya Hokkei, Japanese, 17801850, Letter-box and Toothpick Holders, 19th century, Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 9/16 x 7 3/8 in. (14.1 x 18.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (JP2327)

Sword, Shoes and a Scroll, Representing the Chinese Warrior Choryo. Artist: Ryuryukyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799-1823). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 5 13/16 x 7 7/16 in. (14.8 x 18.9 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Two Girls Play the Finger Game of Kitsume Ken 1725-1770 Suzuki Harunobu Japanese. Two Girls Play the Finger Game of Kitsume Ken 57030

Memorial Portraits of the Actors Bando Shuka I, Arashi Otohachi III, and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII 1855 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa School

Cherry Flowers. Artist: Kikuchi Yosai (Japanese, 1781-1878). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (14.6 x 19.4 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The actor Arashi Rikan II as Konoshita Tōkichi. Donation Gerhard Schack

My Lord bag-o`-Rice, Suzuki Kason, 1887 book Number 15 from the series: The Japanese fairy tale My Lord Bag-O`-Rice, in English; Cover with title and image of two men and a giant thousand leg; Inside cover, colophon and landscape; Ten magazines, English text with illustrations; Rear leaf, image of letter and envelope. Tokyo paper color woodcut

Hôjô Tokyo, yashima gakutei, c. 1822 print Hôjô Tokiyori (1227-1256) was the prime minister of the Kamakura Shogun Kujô Yoritsugu. Tokiyori was his loyal adviser and was very aware of the needs of the people. With one poem. paper color woodcut prime minister

Yasuda Sakubei Kunitomo running with Dzida / Yasuda Sakubei Kunitomo, board 30. From the series: from the life of the heroes of Taiheiki novel about the Great Peace / Taiheiki Eiyuden Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

Courtesan Dreaming of Procession. Kubo Shunman; Japanese, 1757-1820. Date: 1814. Dimensions: 20.8 x 18.3 cm. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Book of Humorous Poems Named "Hundred Thousand Birds". Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 9 × 12 1/4 × 1/2 in. (22.9 × 31.1 × 1.3 cm). Date: 1830. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Tokuda Magodayū Shigemori, Leaf 37 from the series: History of Loyal Fools. Gift by Justus Brinckmann

Su Liupeng (1796-1862). "Eight album sheets". Ink and colors on paper. Paris, Cernuschi museum. Album, Color on Paper, Color on paper, ink, print, leaf, man, ink, young woman, message, messenger, messenger, sheet, Young woman, color, fattening, man, table

Two brothers fighting at Mount Fuji, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1855 print Two Kabuki actors such as fighting brothers, against a background with Mount Fuji and the thirty -sixth stopping place, Goyu, along the Tokaido road. The standing brother is Yokozô, played by Matsumoto Kôshirô V, the sitting is Jihizô played by Bandô Mitsugorô III. paper color woodcut mountains. fighting. adult man (+ two persons) Fuji

Fukunokami (Kyogen), from the series Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue) 1893-1903 Japan. Color woodblock print . Tsukioka Kôgyo

Ronin Chiba Sabūrobei Mitsutada finding Nakamatsu Kurobei under the covers / Saburobei Mitsutada, board 22. From the series: Comparison of outstanding and faithful Roninów / Chūshin Gishhi Kōmei KuBe, Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

Nyûdô Yorimasa with a poem Kisen Hôshi, No. 8 from the series "Imitation of the collection from the tail

Kyoka poet HonenYukimaro. Artist: Kitao Masanobu, Japanese, 1761-1816

Actors in the roles of sumo wrestlers in the ring Kunisada, UTAGAWA (1786 1864)

Xiangru (Jp Shojo), from the series Meng Qiu (Jp Mogyu) 1816-1826 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Totoya Hokkei

Monk Hokaibo; poem by Emperor Sanjo; print 68 from the series: Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Imitations of one hundred poems by one hundred poets). Utagawa, Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), graphic artist

Shinagawa, from vol 1 of the illustrated book Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Toto shokei ichiran) 1800 Japan. Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book . Katsushika Hokusai

Joriken riding his sword across water, section of a sheet from an untitled harimaze series. Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III); Japanese, 1786-1864. Date: 1858. Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 cm (6 9/16 x 4 in.). Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

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