PrintsJapanese

Modern Toba-e (Toba-e ichiryu) in 7 volumes

Classification

Prints

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

20.8 x 32.3 cm (8 3/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Two Women Making Rice Candy at New Years/The Board Roof Shell (Itayagai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, datable to 1821

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigments on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors Arashi Sangorō 2nd as Minamoto no Yoritomo disguised as Eboshi Ori (the Hat Maker) and Segawa Kikujirō 2nd as Yuki Onna (the Snow Woman) in the play Myōtogiku Izu no Kisewata at the Ichimura Theater from the eleventh month of 1770

Ippitsusai Bunchō, Edo period, 1770 (eleventh month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "aiban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Ippitsusai Bunchō ga"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Picture of a Steamship (Jokisen no zu) and Picture of the True Form of a Person of the Northern United States of America (Kita Amerika gasshū koku jinbutsu shinzō no zu)

Unknown Artist, c. 1853-54

Woodblock print; ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Tōeizan Temple at Ueno (Ueno Tōeizan), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō 2nd, Sanjō Kantarō and an Unidentified Actor in a Brawl

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, datable to 1720

Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print in "kakemono-e" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Torii Kiyomasu"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

THE FIFTY-THREE STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kabuki Actor with Child

Yamamura Toyonari, Taishō period, circa 1920-1922

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Korin

Munakata Shikō 棟方志功, Shōwa period,

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Two Women Standing between Trees/ Shōdoshima Island in Sanuki Province, with poems by Jū Tokubi and Futabatei Shigefumi

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, circa 1804

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; Ink, color and metallic pigment on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Chinese Warrior Ma Chao (Bachō), Number Five (Sono go) from the series Five Tiger Generals (Go koshōgun)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, 1818 (Year of the Tiger)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment(?) on paper, with printed signature reading "Gakutei Harunobu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Flower

Takashi Murakami, 2002

21st centuryJapanese