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Japanese Woodblock Prints

A collection of historic Japanese woodblock prints depicting various characters and scenes, featuring vibrant colors and traditional attire.

Ararith triany i i Am Am Am Hafaned, C. 184 print Right sheet of a diptych. Arashi Rikan III as Tôfû, in the piece "Ono no tôfû aoyagi suzuri", Wakadayû Theater, July 1848. paper color woodcut actor (on the stage). fan
Ararith triany i i Am Am Am Hafaned, C. 184 print Right sheet of a diptych. Arashi Rikan III as Tôfû, in the piece "Ono no tôfû aoyagi suzuri", Wakadayû Theater, July 1848. paper color woodcut actor (on the stage). fan
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The actor Ichikawa Tomiemon as Inokuma Monbei. Toshusai Sharaku ; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1794. Dimensions: 31.4 x 14.8 cm. Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Penis competition; The big tail. Humorous erotic print; Surrounded together naked men, rated by two courtiers.
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Japan: 'Susanoo-no-Mikoto and the Water Dragon', painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), 1840
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The Bamboo Fence. Helen Hyde; American, 1868-1919. Date: 1904. Dimensions: 131 x 288 mm (image); 242 x 342 mm (sheet). Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1753 - October 31, 1806) was a Japanese printmaker and painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
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December 1909, 1909 book. magazine Number 3 of volume 13 (December 1909) of the literary monthly HOTOTOGISU: Cover on which two men at a smoldering fire; Inside a title plate of a rooster; Back on which a mountain landscape with two mountain climbers. paper letterpress printing / color woodcut
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Budo meiyoden, utagawa kunimasu, 1848 print ÔKawa Hashizô I Als Nikki Danjô in HET TONEELSTUK 'AZUMA MIYAGE DATE NOHINAGATA', NAKA THEATER, AUGUSTUS 1848. paper portrait of actor, actress
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Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1797-1861). Japan, 1858, 6th month. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print
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Characters individually linked to the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway. Colour woodcut, ca. 1850.
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The Actor Ichikawa Sadanji I as Fukashichi. Toyohara Kunichika (Japan, 1835-1900). Japan, 1883, October. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print
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Matthew Perry Artist Unknown Japanese Woodblock Print National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Young Woman Drops her Geta as She Boards a Boat. Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1768-1778. Dimensions: 25 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. Color woodblock print, hashira-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Suzuki Harunobu (1724 July 7, 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of subjects, from classical poems to contemporary beauties (bijin, bijin-ga). Like many artists of his day, Harunobu also produced a number of shunga, or erotic images. During his lifetime and shortly afterwards, many artists imitated his style. A few, such as Harushige, even boasted of their ability to forge the work of the great master. Much about Harunobu's life is unknown.
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Stick of Coral and a Portrait of South Sea Islander 3rd month,1860 Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide Japanese. Stick of Coral and a Portrait of South Sea Islander 73398
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Carp and Crucians, 1830s, Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei, Japanese, 1797 - 1858, 6 9/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16.7 × 23.5 cm) (image, horizontal chūban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century
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Dong Ho painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Đông Hồ or Tranh làng Hồ), full name Dong Ho folk woodcut painting (Tranh khắc gỗ dn gian Đông Hồ) is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut paintings originating from Dong Ho village (làng Đông Hồ) in Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam. Using the traditional điệp paper and colours derived from nature, craftsmen print Dong Ho pictures of different themes from good luck wishes, historical figures to everyday activities and folk allegories. In the past, Dong Ho painting was an essential element of the Tết holiday in Vietnam.
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The Bakemono Zukushi handscroll, painted in the Edo period (18th-19th century) by an unknown artist, depicts 24 traditional monsters that traditionally haunt people and localities in Japan.
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Suzuki Harunobu (1724 July 7, 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of subjects, from classical poems to contemporary beauties (bijin, bijin-ga). Like many artists of his day, Harunobu also produced a number of shunga, or erotic images. During his lifetime and shortly afterwards, many artists imitated his style. A few, such as Harushige, even boasted of their ability to forge the work of the great master. Much about Harunobu's life is unknown.
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Kumawakamaru. Date/Period: 1907. Japanese Painting. Color on silk. Height: 1,243 mm (48.93 in); Width: 507 mm (19.96 in). Author: KOBAYASHI KOKEI.
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Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe Bunzo Toshusai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794-1795). Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe Bunzo, May 1794. Color woodblock print on paper, 14 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (37.8 x 23.5 cm). This print of the actor Segawa Kikunojo III is one of the most celebrated portraits of the onnagata (male actor in a female role) by the late eighteenth-century artist Toshusai Sharaku. It portrays a character in the Genroku era play Hanaayame Bunroku Soga (The Iris Saga of the Bunroku Era), a drama that retells the true story of the vengeance of ten brothers for their father's assassination in 1701. The play was performed at the Miyako-za theater in the city of Edo in May 1794. The portrait is in the bust-length, close-up format known as okubi-e. Sharaku utilized this format to highlight the expressive talents of the performer and to document the role. The mica ground is a distinctive feature of Sharaku's portraits; the signature and publisher's seal were s
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Vintage Japanese Watercolor Sketches of Toy Designs.
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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 Moon Above the Sea at Daimotsu Bay
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Wisteria Maiden, late 19th century, Unknown Japanese, 11 3/16 x 4 3/16 in. (28.42 x 10.64 cm) (sight), Ink on paper, Japan, 19th century
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Battle scene unknown
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Tattoo Design with a Dragon and Snake (Inspired by Japanese Examples). Artist: Clark & Sellers (American, active 20th century). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 4 1/8 in. (17.3 × 10.5 cm). Date: ca. 1900-1945. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Fujiwara no Kanemichi in the play "Otomo no Matori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1726. Tsunekawa Shigenobu; Japanese, active c. 1720-40. Date: 1726. Dimensions: 33.4 x 15.5 cm (13 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.). Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Kneeling Court, 1870 - 1880 print Humorous erotic print; Kneeldgeling and naked husband and female; Sleeping naked man in the foreground. paper color woodcut (showing oneself) undressed, quasi-nude. sleeping; unconsciousness. penis, phallus
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Japan, Manzô, Shinratei, Nakato, Shingyôtei, Katsumi, Shinzantei, Eisen, Keisai, Rooster on a stack of sake barrels, passe-partout, lower left - printed, Nine sake barrels with a rooster on top. In the foreground a hen with her chicks. The rooster refers to the new year of the rooster. With three poems., surimono, prints, Japan (collection), verso - stamped, height 204 mm, width 178 mm, 1790 - 1848, print maker, printmaker, 1825 - 1825, second quarter 19th century, paper, colour woodcut, colour woodblock, blind stamping, Japanese, poet, 1762 - 1831
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Charm , 20th century. Woodblock print, 16 1/2 x 10 in. (41.9 x 25.4 cm). Asian Art 20th century
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China, Lohan from a series of 500; no. no. 312, rubbing print, China (collection), height 293 mm, width 170 mm, maker, manufacturer, 1600 - 1699, paper, papier, rubbing
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Commodore Perry 1848-1859 Japan. Woodblock print; oban .
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Dutch (Orandajin), from the series People of the Five Nations (Gokakoku no uchi) 1861 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Kunihisa II
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Young Woman Holding a Fan. Suzuki Harunobu ; Japanese, 1725 ()-1770. Date: 1764-1770. Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 5 in. Color woodblock print; hashira-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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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
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Gigerl-Tarock, Sküs,Narr
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Moon through the smoke of a blaze by Yoshitoshi Taiso (1839-1892). Woodcut, colour print of firemen standing on the rooftops of buildings, signalling to each other during a conflagration.
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Tokyo, Nishimura Yohachi, Japan, Shuncho, Katsukawa, Two courtesans on a balcony of a teahouse, Standing and seated courtesan, under lantern, on balcony overlooking teahouses along the bank of the Sumida River, full of boats in the background., print, prints, Japan (collection), height 700 mm, width 124 mm, Japanese, print maker, printmaker, 1780 - 1790, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, colour woodcut, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Japan, Tokyo, Lottery Billboard depicting Ukiyo-e Characters Holding Modern One Hundred Yen Coin
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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Tugging Boats (Hikibune), 1909-10. Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866-1942). Color woodcuts with gold and silver; sheet: 29.9 x 22.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.). This print from a set of three woodblock printed albums displays the graphic design prowess of Kamisaka Sekka. The images were first distributed one by one to subscribers to the series but later were reissued in bound form, like this book, for mass consumers. Each print features a vignette taken from nature or Japanese literature. Many of the scenes have a long history in Japan, originating in the 900s or 1000s and having been interpreted by all manner of artists since that time. Sekkas selections hew closely to precedents from the Rinpa style originated by painter Tawaraya S?tatsu (c. 1570-c. 1640) and calligrapher Honami K?etsu (1558-1637).
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(napisy w języku japońskim) plakat reklamowy (reklama sklepu rybnego Yamago Shoten w Uzen, Prefektura Yamagata). Kojima, Takejiro (-), publisher
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New Shops in mafuji in the yotsuya District /Yotsuya Naito Shiryo OUKU, Board 86 from The Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo /Meisho Hyakkei HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai (1797 1858)
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Anonymous, Folies-Bergere/ Every evening/ Japanese, 1882. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.
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Moon, from the series Snow, Moon, and Flower in a Cool Breeze (Furyo setsugekka no uchi) 1840-1843 Japan. Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e . Utagawa Hiroshige
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Beauty Powder, Chinese Commercial Design
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Drawing, One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man; japan watercolor on silk or paper; 1908-17-7
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Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin Toshusai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794-1795). Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin, 1794/5. Color woodblock print with mica on paper, 14 3/8 x 9 7/16 in. (36.5 x 24 cm). The mysterious artist Tōshūsai Sharaku specialized in actor depictions in his apparently brief career as a print designer. His most groundbreaking and celebrated images focus on the face and upper body of the subject, set against a plain background covered in mica dust. Sharakus works emphasize the actors mastery of facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures to convey complex emotions. Here, one of the great performers of the day portrays a tragic hero at the moment when he realizes that his only honorable recourse is to commit ritual suicide. Asian Art 1794/5
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Hanging Scroll Painting: Cranes, Waves, Peach Tree, and Sun Tokosai Yoshitatsu (Japanese, 19th century). , 19th century. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 50 1/2 x 28 in. (128.3 x 71.1 cm). Asian Art 19th century
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Six renditions of a young boy; the normal countenance is in the top oval, the remaining five distorted countenances are in the roundels. Colour woodcut by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1884.
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Japan, Honshu, Kansai, Osaka, Osaka Museum of History, Exhibit Of Life In Historical Osaka
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Kite
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Sonohi Sonohi, Japan
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Tents and other furniture, 12th and 13th centuries. Portable altars 15,19, wine fountain for a ceremonial feast 16, table 18, lectern 17, pedestal 20, candlestick 21, bread bin 22, and military tents and pavilions 23-26 Meubles et objets divers, XIIe et XIIIe siecles. Taken from a manuscript Psalterium Cantuariense, Latin 8846, Psautier MS 1194, Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.
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Japan: Advertising poster for Shiseido Cosmetics, Ginza, Tokyo, 1927