Traditional Japanese Women

Elegant woodblock prints depicting women in traditional Japanese attire, showcasing cultural themes and delicate color palettes.

Two women and a girl under a blossoming cherry tree Brocades with customs and customs in the East (series title) Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki (series title), Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), Japan, 1782 - 1786, paper, colour woodcut, h 380 mm × w 252 mm

Scene from a Drama ca. 1744 Okumura Masanobu Japanese. Scene from a Drama 56821

A pair of ONOE Kikujiro II actors as a tonomo tsukasa and iwai cumsaburo III as other katsum on theater Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

The Courtesan Hisui of the Fan House (Ogiya uchi Hisui), from the series The Five Festivals Flower Competition (Gosechi hana awase) 1789-1801 Japan. Color woodblock print, Ùban (one sheet of a pentaptych) . Kitagawa Utamaro

Kite Flying ca. 1766 Suzuki Harunobu Japanese. Kite Flying 54541

Drama of Areshi Soga 1711-1785 Ishikawa Toyonobu Japanese. Drama of Areshi Soga 57024

Merchants; Ko. The actors Nakamura Matsue II and Ichikawa Sumizo in the role of a merchant and his wife, walking near the castle in Osaka. Fourth leaves of a four-panel.

End of the Year. Artist: Eishosai Choki (Japanese, active late 18th-early 19th century). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 13 x 8 3/4 in. (33 x 22.2 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Courtesans of the Shin Kanaya, from the series Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami), vol 2 1776 Japan. Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book . Kitao Shigemasa

The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya, with Child Attendants Yoshino and Tatsuta. Chobunsai Eishi; Japanese, 1756-1829. Date: 1788-1798. Dimensions: 38.3 x 25.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Returning from a Poetry Gathering 1780-1794 Japan. Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (center 1925.2571) . Kubo Shunman

Entertainers of Tachibana (Kitchugi), from the series A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase) 1776-1786 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Torii Kiyonaga

MaanfeeSt, TORII KIYONAGA, 1785-1789 print Three women in a room with a view of the River de Sumida and the Rogoku bridge; Woman with fan standing on veranda, talking with wife in the same clothing sitting in windowsill, a third woman with fan sitting at Komfoor. Left leaf of Triptiek. Japan paper color woodcut adult woman. fan. river

Ayase no Yusho, from the series "Bokusui Hakkei". Ippitsusai Buncho; Japanese, active c. 1755-90. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 25.9 x 19.4 cm (10 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.). Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Soldan-Brofeldt, Venny, work, Two boys, drawing, 24.5 cm x 32 cm

Chrysanthemum festival, from the series Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi) 1796-1806 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Torii Kiyonaga

Three Beauties Katsukawa Shunchō Japanese. Three Beauties 56072

The fourth month; Uzuki; Poems about customs and use in the four seasons.; Fuzoku Shiki Kasen. Man (komuso) with hat in court and flute in left hand, standing at bamboo gate and river, looking up to cuckoo, while two girls gated him from behind a window. A poem in a cloud-shaped cart shower along the top of the print.

The Filial Son of Kamakura from the Collection of Stone and Sand (Kamakura koshi, Shasekishu), 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

The fourth month, Suzuki Harunobu, 1765 - 1770 print Man (Komuso) with hat in the right and whistle in the left hand, standing by bamboo fence and river, looking up to Koekoek, while two girls watch him from behind a window. A poem in a cloud -shaped cartouche along the top of the print. Japan paper color woodcut adult man. head-gear. flute, aulos, tibia

Entertainment on a Balcony by the Water at Nakasu, from the series, A Collection of Beautiful Modern Women of the Pleasure Quarters, 1783. Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815). Diptych: color woodblock print; sheet: 38.2 x 25.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 in.).

The Courtesan Maizumi of the Daimonjiya with Her Attendants Shigeki and Naname, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)". Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1782. Dimensions: 39.2 x 26.2 cm. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

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No Title, 1753-1806. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 36.2 x 25.2 cm (14 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.).

Kingyo = Goldfish, Kitagawa, Utamaro (1753?-1806), (Artist), Date Created: ca. 1793-ca.1804.

Henjo, from the series Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen) 1784-1795 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Chôbunsai Eishi

Snowball, 1794 - 1798 print Elegant dressed Courtisane in Kimono with pair of peonies, held under umbrella by Shinzo (Courtisane in training) in Zwarte Kimono, looking at Kamuro (youngest help from Courtisane) a large snowball rolling; Against gray background with swirling snowflakes. print maker: Japanpublisher: Tokyo paper nishiki-e / color woodcut rolling up a snowball

View of the fish market on the beach in Shiba, 1807 print Woman sitting by a container with fish, looking back at man with fish on hook in the left hand, behind which a boy lifting a yoke; Sea in the background. Japan paper color woodcut fishes. carrying something with yoke

A Young Man, Two Young Women and a Girl at a Picnic Party. Artist: Katsukawa Shuncho (Japanese, active ca. 1783-95). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 14 9/16 x 10 in. (37 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1789. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Viewing Votive Plaques at Mukojima 1780-1794 Japan. Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych . Kubo Shunman

The fourth month of Uzuki (title on object) Poems about customs and customs in the four seasons. (series title) Fuzoku shiki kasen (series title on object), Man (komuso) with hat in right and flute in left hand, standing by bamboo fence and river, looking up at cuckoo, while two girls watch him from behind a window. A poem in a cloud-shaped cartouche along the top of the print., Suzuki Harunobu (mentioned on object), Japan, 1765 - 1770, paper, colour woodcut, h 288 mm × w 215 mm

Noji: Six TamaRivers. Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797-1858

By an Iris Pond. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 38.7 x 25.5 cm (right sheet), 39.0 x 26.1 cm (left sheet). Color woodblock print; oban diptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Courtesans of the Kiribishiya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2. Katsukawa Shunsho; Japanese, 1726-1792; Kitao Shigemasa; Japanese, 1739-1820. Date: 1776. Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. Color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Poem by Minamoto no Saneakira Ason, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets 1762-1770 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Suzuki Harunobu

The View from Komagata Hall, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)". Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1777-1787. Dimensions: 26.2 × 19.6 cm. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Ichikawa Danjuro Fifth as Kyo no Jiro in Disguise as Dekuroku byoe the Stree Puppet-showman ca. 1788 Torii Kiyonaga Japanese. Ichikawa Danjuro Fifth as Kyo no Jiro in Disguise as Dekuroku byoe the Stree Puppet-showman. Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815). Japan. ca. 1788. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

A Legend from Yoshitsune, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Tokyo, Japan, 1798 - 1861) 1843-1847

The Loyal League of Forty-seven Rnin (Chshingura), Act VI. Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese, 1753-1806

Chushingura: Act III of The Storehouse of Loyalty, late 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 38.1 x 25.7 cm (15 x 10 1/8 in.).

Segawa Kikunojo II as the SagiMusume. Artist: Katsukawa Shunsh?, Japanese, 1726-1792

Die Schauspieler Iwai Kumesaburō III als Kiriyamas Nebenfrau O-yae, Seki Sanjūrō III als Gunji, junger Soldat der Kiriyama und Kataoka Gadō II als Teodori Shinan Isato. Schenkung Gerhard Schack

'Courtesan at Her Toilet', 19th century.Artist: Koriusai

High-Ranking Samurai Girl with Four Attendants, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki). Artist: Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm). Date: ca. 1784. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Courtisane is preparing for the night, Utagawa Kunisada (I), c. 1826 - c. 1827 print A Courtisane dries her hands, behind her a kimono is decorated with pine needles and dragonflies. With one poem. Japan paper color woodcut courtesan, hetaera

Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 1895 Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese. Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 55836

Geisha under parasol, requirements print A geisha walking to the left. A servant walks behind her and holds a parasol above her head. A girl next to her. paper courtesan, hetaera. parasol, sunshade. house personnel, servants

Courtesans relaxing by reading books in front of a large folding screen. Woodblock print by Moronobu Hishikawa (1618-1694) from Fuzoku Emakimono, Picture Scroll of the Water Trade, Tokyo, reprint circa 1880.

Nissaka Station; print from the series: Sohitsu gojusan tsugi (53 Stations by Two Brushes). Utagawa, Hiroshige I (1797-1858), graphic artist, Utagawa, Kunisada I (1786-1864), graphic artist

Woman with songbook The seven refuse from the bamboo forest for the Shôfûdai poetry association (series title) Shôfûdai shichiken no uchi (series title on object), A woman with a songbook. She probably presents Keiko (Liu Ling in Chinese) for one of the seven philosophers. With two poems., Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object), Japan, 1800, paper, colour woodcut, h 201 mm × w 84 mm

Five women and a young man inside a house Utagawa, toyokuni (1769 1825)

The Courtesan Hitomachi of the Tsutaya Brothel, from the series A Pat-tern Book of the Year’s First Designs, Fresh as Spring Herbs” (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō”) 1777-78 Isoda Koryūsai Japanese. The Courtesan Hitomachi of the Tsutaya Brothel, from the series A Pat-tern Book of the Year’s First Designs, Fresh as Spring Herbs” (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō”) 56777

Woman and servant with temple gift, A woman and her servant walk along the Sumida river with a temple gift, an ema or votive print, with the image of a camellia and an anchor. With two poems, adult woman, house personnel, servants, Keisai Eisen (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1820 - 1829, paper, colour woodcut, h 202 mm × w 178 mm

Color woodblock print.

HOOFDSTUK 29, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1849-1853 print Man and wife, in garden with blossoming tree, with veranda on which second man and woman; A stone lantern in the background; at night. Presentation enclosed by brown edge in which Genji emblems. Print Maker: Japantokotokyopublisher: Tokyo paper color woodcut / nishiki-e garden. loggia, verandah, porch. the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ four persons)

A Dance Party: Enjoying Cherry Blossom Viewing at Ueno (Tōbukai Ueno ōka yūran no zu) March, 1887 Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese The scene is set high on a hill in Ueno Park overlooking Shinobazu Pond, in the famous Seiyōken, one of Japans first Western-style restaurants. In the foreground, a female violinist, the new career woman, proudly displays her rare imported instrument as though it were trophy. With roses in her chignon and wearing a curvaceous bustle, the violinist is dramatically contrasted with her obsequious attendants, who crouch awkwardly in traditional clothing.. A Dance Party: Enjoying Cherry Blossom Viewing at Ueno (Tōbukai Ueno ōka yūran no zu) 55408

Irises in full bloom, 1858 print Wife, in the right hand a large lantern, with left hand her skirt, walking along the gate behind which flowering irises; At night; With lanterns illuminated tea houses in the background. paper color woodcut flowers. lantern. adult woman

The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya with her Attendants, from the series Edo Purple in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro Edo murasaki) 1785-1795 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Chôbunsai Eishi

Ise watching a flock of geese, from an untitled series of court ladies 1780-1790 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Torii Kiyonaga

Four Women, Japanese Prints - Utamaro

Summer Robes (Natsugoromo), from the series A Comparison of Incense (Takimono awase) 1817-1827 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Yanagawa Shigenobu II

Die Schauspieler Iichikawa Kodanji IV.

Two Geisha. Artist: Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, 1735-ca. 1790). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); W. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Disappointed Bride: Kono Flees Upon Discovering That the Ugly Bridegroom Is Not Whom She Promised to Marry. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892). Japan, 1879, February. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

Twenty-Four Japanese examples or Philial Piety for the Honchôren. Two boys for a screen on which a surf and the moon, between them in a gold piece. The boys both have lost their fathers recently, one is poor and the other empire. The poor boy saw his father in a dream that told him to release the blame to the son of the rich man. Here he tries to do that by offering a gold piece. The rich boy refuses the gold piece and asks him to bring a sacrifice to their two fathers instead of payment. With two poems, a poem is about the dream: waking up the first prosperous dream is like a hundred gold pieces when the ear should also hear the singing of the mock.

Burning Autumn Maple Leaves. Suzuki Harunobu ; Japanese, 1725 ()-1770. Date: 1765. Dimensions: 28.0 x 20.0 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.). Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Autumn Moon at the Temple Ishiyamadera from the series Fashionable Eight Views, c. 1814-17. Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787-1867). Color woodblock print, ink and color on paper; sheet: 37.1 x 26 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.).

Two women gathering herbs 1830-1833 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Katsushika Taito II

The hour of the monkey Elegant representations of the twelve hours (series title) Furyu junitoki (series title on object), Two women and a child walking among flowering trees, woman with a blossom branch in hands looking up at a cartouche at the top right, in which a monkey, referring to the time between four and six o'clock in the afternoon, in the background a bell tower of a temple., Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), Japan, 1785 - 1789, paper, colour woodcut, h 223 mm × w 158 mm

The Tenth Month (Jugatsu), from the series Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko) 1778-1789 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Torii Kiyonaga

Blind man play, 1792 - 1796 print Two Courtisanes, a Shinzo (Courtisane in training) and a Kamuro (youngest help from a Courtisane) in the garden of the Kankanro Theehuis visible in the background with different companies on the two floors. Tokyo paper color woodcut blind-man's buff

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.

A woman sitting on the threshold of the house, from the series: Snow, Moon and Flowers / Setsugekka No Uchi HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai (1797 1858)

Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran). Kitao Shigemasa; Japanese, 1739-1820. Date: 1767-1777. Dimensions: 7 x 7 1/4 in. Color woodblock print; koban, trimmed. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The game of Catch the Fox, Eijudo (Japanese, active 18th century), 1795, Woodcuts, One sheet of a triptych, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

UguisuJapanese Bush Warbler. Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754-1806). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.2 x 15.9 cm). Date: 1754-1806. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Eiraku-an teahouse in Kyoto. Suzuki Harunobu ; Japanese, 1725 ()-1770. Date: 1763-1770. Dimensions: 26.3 x 20.2 cm (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.). Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Ono no Komachi by the Waterfall (Shimizu), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi). Suzuki Harunobu ; Japanese, 1725 ()-1770. Date: 1751-1764. Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. Color woodblock print; hosoban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Two Young Women Reading Books 1762-1770 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Suzuki Harunobu

Nissaka, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Gojusan tsugi), also known as the Figure Tokaido (Jinbutsu Tokaido) 1852 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Utagawa Hiroshige

The Nihonbashi bridge. Woman and Girl /Nihonbashi, first plate of the series: Fifty Three Parallels for the Tôkaidô Road /Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui Utagawa, kuniyoshi (1797 1861)

A girl and a young man in a boat, with the young man drawing in a net that has caught a large love letter instead of fish., 1769, Woodcuts, Image 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (26 x 19.1 cm)

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Stately Woman ca. 1785 Katsukawa Shunk Japanese. The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Stately Woman. Katsukawa Shunk (Japanese, 1743-1812). Japan. ca. 1785. Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Madame Tang (To Fujin), from the series Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko) 1843-1855 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Actors Anegawa Daikichi as Sankatsu and Bando Hikosaburo II as Hanshichi in the play Soga Mannen Bashira, performed at the Ichimura Theater in the sixth month, 1760 1760 Japan. Color woodblock print; o-hosoban, benizuri-e . Torii Kiyomitsu I

A Woman Seated in a Kago. Artist: Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711-1785). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); W. 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm). Date: ca. 1752. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Oiran Yosooi from the Matsuba ya bawdy house and two kamuros on a walk Kunisada, UTAGAWA (1786 1864)

Elegant Pleasures: The Scent of Flowers, left (Furyu hana no ka asobi, ge). Kitagawa Utamaro ; Japanese, 1753 ()-1806. Date: 1778-1788. Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Ono no Komachi, c. 1843-1846, Utagawa Hiroshige; Publisher: Enshūya Matabei, Japanese, 1797 - 1858, 6 3/4 × 10 13/16 in. (17.1 × 27.4 cm) (image, sheet, uchiwa-e), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, This fan print is from a series by Utagawa Hiroshige inspired by poems composed by renowned poetesses. It shows the ninth-century court lady and a legendary beauty, Ono no Komachi sitting in her elegantly appointed room at night, suggested by the darkness outside and presence of an oil lamp. Hiroshige depicts her composing the following poem (inscribed in the red cartouche on the print)

Interior Scene, c. 1746-92. Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792). Color woodblock print; sheet: 17.8 x 25.8 cm (7 x 10 3/16 in.).

Two men kneeIIng in a low bow Kunisada, UTAGAWA (1786 1864)

The Ghost of Yaehatahime and Akamatsu Jūtamaru Takanori. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japan, 1839-1892). Japan, 1866, 12th month. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock print

Samurai at Kasteelmuur, c. 1838 print Play player Nakamura Utaemon IV as Samurai ôboshi Yuranosuke, sitting by a stone wall. Scene from the play "Kanadehon Chûshingura", staged in the Naka Theater, in the first month of 1838 paper color woodcut actor (on the stage). sitting figure. landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage)

Tomorrow's snow by Toyokuni Utagawa (1786-1865). Woodcut, colour print of an upper class woman standing near a well and two women, possibly servants, getting water at the well.

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Sumizome (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Goinosuke Yoshimine (left), in the Play Juni-hitoe Komachi-zakura, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784 1779-1789 Japan. Color woodblock print; aiban . Katsukawa Shunko I

The Actors Arashi Kitsusaburō II as the Hairdresser Kamiyui Tasuke, and Arashi Koroku IV as Gonza the Lancer (Yari no Gonza) 1824 Gigadō Ashiyuki 画堂芦幸 The popular Kabuki role of Yari no Gonza (who is depicted on the left, beneath the red lantern with the actors’ names and roles) is based on a character of the same name from a puppet play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in 1717, over a century before the performance represented here. Chikamatsu’s play recounted the real-life events of the day of the killing of a pair of adulterous lovers by the woman’s jealous husband. The Kabuki adaptation, Rumors of a Scandal on the Fushimi Road (Fushimi-kaidō uwasa no akatsuki), which inspired this print, was performed at the Naka Theater in the eighth month of 1824.. The Actors Arashi Kitsusaburō II as the Hairdresser Kamiyui Tasuke, and Arashi Koroku IV as Gonza the Lancer (Yari no Gonza). Gigadō Ashiyuki 画堂芦幸 (Japanese, active ca. 1813-34). Japan. 1824. Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color

Evening Glow for Date no Yosaku and Seki no Koman, from the untitled series known as Eight Views of Tragic Lovers (Michiyuki hakkei) 1801-1804 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Katsushika Hokusai

Three girls by the river, raft of fireworks, by Kiyonaga. 18th centtury AD. Japan.

Tomimoto bushi, Tomimoto School of Joruri., Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, 1784 or 1785, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 31.2 x 21.3 cm., Print shows three women and two children on their way to a concert.

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Chikurin shichiken), from the series A Set of Ten Famous Numbers for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren meisu juban) 1823-1833 Japan. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono . Yashima Gakutei

Left, a woman cleaning her teeth; right, a servant brings washing water. Woodcut by Shigemasa, 1778.

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