Japanese Woodblock Prints

A collection of Japanese woodblock prints featuring courtesans, actors, and traditional themes, characterized by vibrant colors and intricate details.

Kudanme, Act nine of the Chushingura., Katsukawa, Shunsho, 1726-1793, artist, 1775 or 1776, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.4 x 18.4 cm., Print shows Tonase holding a sword, standing behind her step-daughter Konami on a veranda as Honzo walks by, disguised as a traveling monk, wearing a beehive-shaped basket over his head and playing a recorder.

Courtisane and frog; Comparisons between beauties and flowers; Bijin Hana Kurabe. Courtisane with parasol, looking at story telling frog.

Kudanme, Act nine of the Chushingura., Katsukawa, Shunsho, 1726-1793, artist, 1775 or 1776, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.4 x 18.4 cm., Print shows Tonase holding a sword, standing behind her step-daughter Konami on a veranda as Honzo walks by, disguised as a traveling monk, wearing a beehive-shaped basket over his head and playing a recorder.

Courtesan Dreaming of a Marriage Procession, late 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 37.6 x 24.6 cm (14 13/16 x 9 11/16 in.).

The actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Asahina Tobei 1836-1846 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

The Actor Nakamura Kumetaro I as a Oiran ca. 1756 Torii Kiyohiro Japanese. The Actor Nakamura Kumetaro I as a Oiran. Torii Kiyohiro (Japanese, active ca. 1737-76). Japan. ca. 1756. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke in the Role of Lady Iwafuji ca. 1795 Utagawa Toyokuni I Japanese This well-preserved, brightly colored print is one of three from the series that depict actors from the same play"The Disputes of the Kaga Daimyo Family"under a blossoming cherry tree. The Osaka-born actor Onoe Matsusuke (1744-1815) could play various types of male and female roles. Here, he is depicted as the power-hungry Lady Iwafuji, her wickedness expressed in facial features such as a tightly closed mouth and narrowed eyes.. The Actor Onoe Matsusuke in the Role of Lady Iwafuji 56991

Nikki Danjō Naonori Changing into a Rat. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892). Japan, 1865. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

Master of sumo wrestIIng Kunisada, UTAGAWA (1786 1864)

Tora choses; Stories of wise women and loyal echenotes; Kenjo Reppuden. Torah choses, standing at shrub in hard wind, witching towards her roadwatering hat.

The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII, Utagawa toyokuni (I), 1825 print The Kabuki actor Danjurô VII in the role of Sukeroku: dressed in a black kimono with two red-blue flowers on the shoulders. Under a black parasol. (The print is dedicated to the actor) paper color woodcut / polishing portrait of actor, actress. parasol, sunshade

Man Holding A Parasol, Toyohara Kunichika (Tokyo, Japan, 1835 - 1900) 1865

Number four: Girl writes poem, Yashima Gakutei, c. 1825 A girl is sitting on a red rug under a flowering cherry tree and behind her a curtain. She licks her brush in preparation for writing a poem on the paper for her. The emblem on the curtain is that of the Hanagasa Poeters Association, which has published this Surimono. The three poems on this print also seem to be part of the curtain. Japan paper color woodcut plants; vegetation (+ flowers, blossom, blossoming). calligraphy

Fujiya Izaemon with a poem of Mother Udziishô Michitsuny, No. 53 from the series "IMACJA of the collection from Ogura - one poem from a hundred poets" (Ogura Nazora Hyakunin Isshu)Dembiński, Stanisław (1891-1940)-collection, decorative boards according to the anthology of a hundred poets, cycle, gift (provenance), Japanese (culture), Japanese art, ukiyo-e

The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Asahina Saburo in the Play Iro Maki-e Soga no Sakazuki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1773. Katsukawa Shunsho ; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1768-1778. Dimensions: 30.5 x 13.8 cm (12 x 5 7/16 in.). Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (). Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Ichikawa Ebizo (the Fourth Ichikawa Danjuro) as a Samurai 1773 or 1774 Katsukawa Shunshō　川春章 Japanese. Ichikawa Ebizo (the Fourth Ichikawa Danjuro) as a Samurai 36863

Actor Bandô Mitsugorô V and Narcissus, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1862 print Kabuki actor Bandô Mitsugorô in the role of Nagauta Geigoto, in blue kimono and blue cloth on forehead, with long sword. The title cartouche is decorated with daffodils. paper color woodcut actor (on the stage). hacking and thrusting weapons: sword

The Actor Takinaka Utagawa (Kasen) 1736-1746 Japan. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e . Torii Kiyomasu II

The actor Sawamura Tosshō i in the piece of Gohenge. Donation Gerhard Schack

Surimono Calendar for the Dog Year, 1814 1814 Totoya Hokkei Japanese. Surimono Calendar for the Dog Year, 1814 54317

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769. Ippitsusai Buncho; Japanese, active c. 1755-90. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 31.9 x 14.8 cm (12 9/16 x 5 13/16 in.). Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The antor Actor Relief Uzzemon With A Karashushihihi Ion mask

Hakamadare Besluitt Fluitspelende yasumasa, utagawa kuniyoshi, in or after 1843 -in or before 1846 print Cycling Fujiwara No Yasumasa plays the flute on a moon -lit night. In the background the Bandite Hakamadare Yasusuke, who wants to rob the courtier, but the enchantingly beautiful music ensures that it doesn't work. paper color woodcut transverse flute - CC - out of doors. night. robber

Courtisane from the Ebiya House, in or after 1811 - in or before 1814 print Courtisane, dressed in pink and green kimono, OBI with water pattern and large carp in front. paper color woodcut courtesan, hetaera

Japan: Calendar for the Year of the Dog 1814, polychrome woodblock print, Totoya Hokkei (1780 - 1850), 1814

Kiyomori, Utagawa Kunisada (Tokyo, Japan, 1786 - 1865) 1847-1852

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Saeki Kurando Tsunenori (Sandai-me Ichikawa Yaozo no Saeki Kurando Tsunenori). Toshusai Sharaku ; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1789-1799. Dimensions: 32.6 x 15.2 cm. Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Yokobue, leaf 37 from the series: Genji clouds together with Ukiyo-e. Donation Gerhard Schack

The Courtesan Emi of the Kyōki Brothel as Shizuka Gozen (Shizuka Kyōki Emi), from the series Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi District in Osaka (Naniwa Shimanouchi nerimono) probably 1836 Jukōdō Yoshikuni 好堂よし国 A courtesan of the Kyōki Brothel of the Shimanouchi unofficial pleasure quarters in Osaka is dressed as Shizuka Gozen (1165-1211), a famous shirabyōshi (female court dancer) of the twelfth century who became the mistress of the warlord Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Shizuka featured prominently in the martial epic The Tale of the Heike as well as in countless theatrical renderings over the centuries. The costume of shirabyōshi entertainers, including a male courtier’s cap and ritual sword, was part of a provocative, convention-breaking cross-dressing of entertainers that came into popularity in the early medieval court and remained popular through early modern times in Japan at all levels of society.. The Courtesan Emi of the Kyōki Brothel as Shizuka Gozen (Shizuka Kyōki Emi), from t

Offering Pails of Water, c. 1790, Katsushika Hokusai; Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō, Japanese, 1760 - 1849, 8 5/16 × 6 in. (21.1 × 15.3 cm) (image, sheet, vertical chūban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 18th century, The play 'Flower Thief' is about a samurai and his not very capable attendant. During an excursion to enjoy cherry blossoms, the samurai breaks off a small flowering branch to take home. A thief appears and snatches the spray from him. The samurai orders his attendant to retrieve it, but time and again, the thief outsmarts the attendant. The play includes many comical exchanges between the irritated samurai, his dim-witted attendant, and the sly thief. For this print, Hokusai depicted a scene in which the attendant tries to make a rope so that he can tie-up the thief, who is being held down by his master. The facial features of each man convey the comical nature of the play.

Vrouw met Trommel, Katsushika Hokuun, c. 1890 - c. 1900 print Woman with a drum, on her black overkimono are white cranes mibulus. With one poem. The print is a B copy from the Late Meiji period (1868-1912). paper color woodcut drum (musical instrument)

A Courtisane; Famous places and products in the Yamashiro province; Yamashiro Meisho Meibutsu. A portrait of a Courtisane holding a pile of tissues. Her big belt (OBI) has a pattern of ranges floating in a river. With one poem.

Portrait of actor Yamashita Kinsaku with a scrub of the magazine (program)

Sea lions from the province of Matsumae, 1852 print BostePortret of woman with paper bundle in the right hand; Against Cartouche in which a view of three bearded men with rods and bow and bow, in rowing boat, hunting marine animals. paper color woodcut adult woman. postal matter. hunt ~ marine mammals

Fujiya Izaemon, poem by the mother of general Michitsuna (Udaisho Michitsuna-no haha); print 53 from the series: Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Imitations of one hundred poems by one hundred poets). Utagawa, Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), graphic artist

Shume Urabe Suetake Meeting a Ghost with a Child. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892). Japan, 1865, 2nd month. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

The Fourth Matsumoto Koshiro as an Outlaw Looking at a Wooden Ninsogaki ca. 1779-83 Katsukawa Shunshō　川春章 Japanese. The Fourth Matsumoto Koshiro as an Outlaw Looking at a Wooden Ninsogaki 36822

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771 1766-1776 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Ippitsusai Buncho

The Actors Sanjo Kantaro (right) and Fujimura Handayu (left) as musicians playing under wisteria. Artist Unknown; Japanese, 18th century. Date: 1712-1723. Dimensions: 29.9 x 15.8 cm. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Matsuo-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1776 1771-1781 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych ( ) . Katsukawa Shunsho

Scene From the Drama "Hatsu-tori Kuruma Genji" dated 1749 Torii Kiyomasu I Japanese. Scene From the Drama "Hatsu-tori Kuruma Genji". Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active 1696-1716). Japan. dated 1749. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Enjoying the Evening Cool in Hirokoji (Hirokoji no ryosho), from the series Eight Contemporary Views of Ryogoku (Tosei Ryogoku hakkei) 1761-1816 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Kitao Masanobu

Blue Ladies ""Ogiya uchi hanaogi"", Japanese Prints

Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets; Ogura imitation of the one hundred poems. Chidori is sitting with closed range in her hand at a big coffin. Scene from a Kabukite team. Poem by Sadayori.

Sarutahiko, No 2 (Sono ni) from the series The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato) 1820-1829 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Totoya Hokkei

Preparing Bonita, 1823-1880. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865). Color woodblock print; sheet: 35.3 x 24.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.).

Drie Paraderende Courtisanes, c. 1820 - C. 1830 print Courtisane, seen on the back, in Kimono with crane and crow motifs and a carp pattern on OBI, standing with exuberantly flowering peonies. paper color woodcut courtesan, hetaera

Woman on cliff; The Kôya River in Kii, number six; Kii - Sono Roku; The six jewelry rivers; Mutamagawa no uchi. A woman stands at a cliff, a waterfall and mountains in the distance. The Kôya river is located south of the Nara and Osaka cities, in the Kii province. With two poems.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kikuchi Hyogo Narikage in the Play Katakiuchi Chuko Kagami (Vendetta A Model of Loyalty and Filial Duty), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifth Day of the Sixth Month, 1770 1765-1775 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Ippitsusai Buncho

The Soga Shrine, from the series Illustrated Tale of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari zue) 1838-1852 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Hiroshige

FUJIWARA NO TADAMICHI, 1845-1848 print The thief Hakamadara Yasusuku in stolen clothes and on his back a box in which his loot is. Scene from a kabukitis piece. Poem by Fujiwara No Tadamichi. paper color woodcut carrying something. thief

. The actor Matsumoto Kôshirô v (1764-1838) in the role of Banzui Chôbei from the stage stuk Midori No Hana Harutsuge Soga, raised in the Kawarazaki Theater in 1822. Here depicted with a red travel coat over his shoulder. With four poems.

Beautiful girl with a doll of the old governor Moronao, print from the series: Ekyodai Chushingura" (Act I). Utagawa, Kunisada I (1786-1864), graphic artist

Sandaime otani oniji shodai ichikawa omezo, The actors Otani Oniji III and Ichikawa Omezo I., Toshusai Sharaku, active 1794, artist, ca. 1795, 1 print : woodcut, color.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga (Soga of the Long, Hanging Sleeves in the Second Month), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Second Month, 1772 1767-1777 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Ippitsusai Buncho

A woman turns to a man; Famous places and products in the Yamashiro province; Yamashiro Meisho Meibutsu. A woman looks to a man who likes a range for himself, where a letter is on. Both poems on this print speak about love letters (Kesôbumi) that were sold at the start of the new year. The man is probably a seller of this kind of love letters. Since these sellers were Paria, he has covered most of his face. The woman is probably from a high class and wears a special kimono that can cover her face as a kind of veil.

Kurahashi Densuke Kiyohara Takeyuki 19th century Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Japanese. Kurahashi Densuke Kiyohara Takeyuki 73627

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro I 1660-1704. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm); W. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Japan, Mitsumaru, Sanninbô, Hokusai, Katsushika, A puppeteer with a puppet and a gô game board, passe-partout, lower left - printed, A puppeteer with a puppet and a game board for Japanese chess (gô). With one poem. The print is a b-copy., print, prent, prints, images, Japan (collection), verso - stamped, height 211 mm, width 183 mm, Work conception, 1760-10-12 - 1849-05-10, after a print by, 1890 - 1900, paper, colour woodcut, Japanese, poet

Actor in the role of Momonoi Wakanosuke

Female Dancer 1619-1649 Japan. Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper .

SASAI UKON MASANAO ARMED NEAR PINE Trunk, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1846-1848 print paper color woodcut armour. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword

Ichikawa Ebizo V, C. 1835 --c. 1839 print The actor Ichikawa Ebizo V in the role of Kazusa Shichibei Kagekiyo with sword; Against a background of black and yellow rays. paper color woodcut portrait of actor, actress. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword Japan

The Actor Arashi Wakano as a Young Samurai in Woman's Clothes ca. 1754 Torii Kiyohiro Japanese. The Actor Arashi Wakano as a Young Samurai in Woman's Clothes 55033

The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as a boatman Matsuemon, actually Higuchi No Jirō Kanemitsu. Donation Gerhard Schack

Kunisada, Role portrait of an actress from the series Imayo oshie kagami, 1859-60, color woodcut, graphics

The Jewel River at Ide (Ide no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers. Suzuki Harunobu ; Japanese, 1725 ()-1770. Date: 1762-1770. Dimensions: 28.1 x 20.9 cm (11 x 8 1/4 in.). Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Scene from Kabuki theatre performance by Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1864, colored woodblock print

The Actor Yamashita Kyonosuke I in a Female Role 1764-1774 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Ippitsusai Buncho

Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters, c. mid 1780s. Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792). Color woodblock print; sheet: 24.8 x 36.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.).

Osaka, Honya Seishichi, Hokuei, Shunbaisai, Sasaki Saburo Moritsuna Arashi Rikan, Arashi Rikan as Sasaki Saburo Morimatsu, The actor Arashi Rikan II in the role of the hero Sasaki Saburo Morimatsu, in court dress, with two swords, under a rolled-up curtain. Scene from the play Omi Genji Senjin Yakata., print, prints, Japan (collection), height 378 mm, width 253 mm, Japanese - 1837, print maker, printmaker, 1831 - 1831, second quarter 19th century, paper, gold powder, colour woodcut, blind stamping, Publication (Event), Publication, Japanese, publisher

Water seller during a summer night, utagawa kunisada (i), 1856 print A man in blue-white summer kimono with a pattern of carp and a waterfall sells water during a warm summer night. The water seller is Kabuki actor Kawarasaki Gonjûrô. paper color woodcut selling. adult man

Two women with monkeys, c. 1770 - c. 1775 print Courtisane and Kamuro, attacked by three monkeys in a tree. paper color woodcut the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ two persons). monkeys, apes

Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Horiguchi Manzaemon, 1829. Shunjosai Hokuchō (Japanese). Triptych, color woodblock print; sheet: 36.2 x 76 cm (14 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.).

Bust portrait of Iwai Kumesaburo. The actor Iwai Kumesaburo as the Female Krijger Tomoe choses, in armor, with the right hand holding a lance. Scene from the Hiragana Seisuiki play, raised in Miyako-Za in 1797.

Yaoya Oshichi looking at her sleeping beloved; Kentoku Ko; Decorative paper described according to the hundred poets; Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Isshu. Courtisane Yaoya Oshichi throwing a paper plug over blue room screen, behind which she sleeps her beloved Kichisaburo. Poem in orange striped cartouche top left; Above room screen a comment on the show.

Water Margin (known in Chinese as Shuihu Zhuan, sometimes abbreviated to Shuihu), also known as Suikoden in Japanese, as well as Outlaws of the Marsh, Tale of the Marshes, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is a 14th century novel and one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Attributed to Shi Nai'an and written in vernacular Chinese, the story, set in the Song Dynasty, tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gathered at Mount Liang (or Liangshan Marsh) to form a sizable army before they are eventually granted amnesty by the government and sent on campaigns to resist foreign invaders and suppress rebel forces. In 1827, Japanese publisher Kagaya Kichibei commissioned Utagawa Kuniyoshi to produce a series of woodblock prints illustrating the 108 heroes of the Suikoden. The 1827-1830 series, called '108 Heroes of the Water Margin' or 'Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori', made Utagawa Kuniyoshi's famous.

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Takenuki Goro in the Play Eho Soga Nen-nen-goyomi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1771. Katsukawa Shunsho ; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1766-1776. Dimensions: 28.7 x 13.9 cm (11 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.). Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Inoue gorobic the sword lifting at a stone lantern; Inoue gorobic; One hundred warriors selected by Yoshitoshi; Kaidai Hyaku Senso. Inoue Gorobei, in armor with lion motif, His sword at a stone lantern.

Toyohara Kunichika (30 June 1835 - 1 July 1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of ukiyo-e actor-prints, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes from popular plays of the time. A drinker and womanizer, Kunichika also portrayed women deemed beautiful (bijinga), contemporary social life, and a few landscapes and historical scenes. He worked successfully in the Edo period, and carried those traditions into the Meiji period. To his contemporaries and now to some modern art historians, this has been seen as a significant achievement during a transitional period of great social and political change in Japan's history.

The Courtesan Chodayu of the Okamotoya House, from the series Series of Beauties from the Green Houses. Date: 1830-1839. Dimensions: 38 cm x 26 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI.

Kunisada, work, Courtesan performing the Kawasaki dance, 1856, color woodcut, graphics

Wood: Rôchishin Uproach a tree; Ki: Rôchishin; The five elements and suicodes; Suiko Goyô. Rôchishin is deteating a tree. Rôchishin is one of the 108 heroes of the suicodes (waterfront stories), a Chinese novel. With one poem.

Li Kui (Kokusenpu Riki, ichimei Ritetsugyu), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1797-1861. Date: 1822-1832. Dimensions: 37.9 x 26.2 cm (14 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

GHOST OF GENTA YOSHIHIRA TAKING REVENGE, TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI, 1889 print A fierce looking man depicted in the middle of a dark stormy air with lightning bolts. This is the spirit of Genta Yoshihira who is out of revenge after his father was defeated. According to the story, Genta Yoshihira turned into a thunder god just before he was beheaded by Nanba No Jirô and then killed Nanba with a lightning bolt paper color woodcut spirit, ghost. storm

A Woman Peddler of Needles and Thread 1725-1735 Japan. Hand-colored woodblock print; koban, beni-e . Hanegawa Chincho

Child Emperor Antoku and Tensji, lady-in-waiting; poem by Funya no Yasuhide; print 22 from the series: Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu (Imitations of one hundred poems by one hundred poets). Utagawa, Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), graphic artist

Three actors at a temple gate, A snow scene in front of a temple with a large Buddha statue inside, visible through the open window on the first floor. On the balcony a woman (actor Iwai Hanshirô V (1776-1847) in the female role Ishikawa Masagoji) holds a long letter in her hands that rolls down and is grabbed by a man under an umbrella (actor Ichikawa Danjûrô (1791-1859) in the role of Konoshita Tôkichi). Beneath the gate is a woman (actor Nakamura Daikichi (1773-1823) in the female role of Tôkichi's wife Oshizu) with a travel hat and framed image in her hands. With one poem., Kunisada (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), Japan, 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 215 mm × w 187 mm

Tamaya uchi Hanamurasaki, Sekiya, Teriha = Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, kamuro: Sekiya, Teriha, Kitagawa, Utamaro (1753?-1806), (Artist), Date Created: ca. 1793-ca.1804.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (30 April 1839 - 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist and Ukiyo-e woodblock print master. 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. By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology. As he worked on in the old manner, Japan was adopting Western mass reproduction methods like photography and lithography. Nonetheless, in a Japan that was turning away from its own past, he almost singlehandedly managed to push the traditio

Ichikawa Kodanji Als Futamoto Daemon, Kunisada (II), Utagawa, 1863-1866 print Boste portrait of the actor Ichikawa Kodanji in the role of Futamoto Daemon with sword, depicted in Blauw Cartouche, against a red background. Japan paper nishiki-e / color woodcut portrait of actor, actress. writing and letters

Woman portraits. Three circular cartouches between which Japanese text; L.b Portrait of woman with bundle paper; R.B. Man and woman sitting on sofa, a flute clenched; M.O Portrait of a woman.

Children trapping the birds, from the series: Parodies of eight famous views /Yatsushi hakkei

Nakamura, I'm good LS, I am Hira-Een (Tao CH, RG ROD D) A LS Aya-Naoi, TS K 'Rugged Saishiki', Cay R.

Takebayashi Sadashichi Takashige, Leaf 24 from the series: History of Loyal Fools. Gift by Justus Brinckmann

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as the Shinto Priest Goinosuke Disguised as the Spirit of a White Heron, in the Play Sakikaese Yuki no Miyoshino, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781. Katsukawa Shunsho ; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1776-1786. Dimensions: 32.6 x 14.5 cm (12 13/16 x 5 3/4 in.). Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Kudo Saemon Suketsune in the Play Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1776 1771-1781 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu (Sandai-me Sawamura Sojuro no Nagoya Sanza Motoharu). Toshusai Sharaku ; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1789-1799. Dimensions: 30.5 x 14.4 cm. Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Tsuchiya no Umegawa, The courtesan Umegawa of the house of Tsuchi., Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, 1854., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 35.3 x 25.2 cm., Print shows Umegawa, a courtesan, full-length portrait, with a piece of cloth drawn over her head, facing right, carrying a parasol while walking along a stream, possibly at night.

Toyokuni I, work, Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII in the play Shibaraku (Momentary), 1823, colored woodblock print, graphics

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776 1771-1781 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych ( ) . Katsukawa Shunsho

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