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Women Behind Screen

Artists

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, c. 1831

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Battle of Taikozan Oki: Victory for the Japanese Navy Offshore (Nishin sensō Taikozan Oki Nikkan senshō no zu)

Ogata Gekkō, Meiji period,

Center panel from a woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

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NOJIMA YUSHO, from the series Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Actor Onoe Matsusuke

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Edo period, 1780s

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

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Tosa Province, Bonito Fishing at Sea (Tosa, Kaijō katsuo tsuri), from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1855 (Ansei 2, 9th month)

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

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Itō Shinsui, Shōwa period, dated 1953

Woodblock print; ink, color and mica on paper

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View of the Whirlpools at Awa (Awa Naruto no fûkei), from an untitled set of three triptychs

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1857 (Ansei 4), 4th month

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

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Woman Looking at a Caged Nightingale

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, early 19th century

Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

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THE SMUGGLED LETTER

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1765-1770

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "chūban" format; ink and color on paper

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Mambo A

Yoshida Chizuko 吉田千鶴子, 1956

Woodblock print; ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

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Yōrō kōshi (Jikkunshō), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō), with poems by Chiyonoya Matsufuru and Umenoya Tsuruko

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, circa 1821-1822

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