PrintsJapanese

Great Illustrated Encyclopedia, Revised and Enlarged (Sōbo tōsho kinmō zui taisei), vols. 2-10

1789 (Kansei 1)

Artists

Nakamura TekisaiAuthor

Classification

Prints

Medium

Woodblock-printed book (set of nine); ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Prints

Red, Sea Urchin (Aka, Uni), from an untitled series of Women Compared with Colors

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)

Woodblock print (ukiyo-e, surimono); ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

No. 22, from the series Magic Lantern Slides of That Romantic Purple Figure (Sono sugata yukari no utsushi-e)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, c. 1847-1852 (Kōka 4- An'ei 5)

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Segawa Kikunojō (5th of Series of Five Actors)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

Fifth panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "hosoban" pentaptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Toyokuni ga"

Japanese

Prints

Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe (Kiseru no kemuri o fuku onna), from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujō ninsō juppon)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1792-1793

Ukiyo-e woodblock-print in "ōban" format; ink, color and mica on paper, with printed signature reading "Sokan Utamaro koga"

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

Moon at Genji's Villa (Genji bessō no tsuki)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 1854 (Ansei 1), 12th month

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Onoe Kikujirō II as Besshitsu Fuji no kata (center sheet)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 1851, 8th month

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Winter in Taguchi (Taguchi no fuyu)

Yoshida Hiroshi, Shōwa period, dated 1927

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Summer Twilight at Ikano

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1919

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Boy Writing

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

Ukiyo-e woodblock printed "surimono"; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

RIGHT-MAN IN GREEN & PINK-SWORD

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Illustrated Study of Japanese Things (Ehon Yamato hiji), vol. 9

Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信, 1742 (Kanpō 2)

Woodblock-printed book; ink and hand-applied color on paper

18th centuryJapanese