ACTORS

Kitaoka Fumio, Shōwa period, dated 1961

Sandflowers

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Clear Sky after Snow at the Old Castle Keep

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, c. 1877 (Meiji 10)

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

Actor Ogino Isaburō (3rd of Series of Five Actors)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

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

A priest pointing at flying geese, detached page from Ehon kyōka yama mata yama

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, 19th century

Detached page from woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

The Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree and Ōtomo no Kuronushi, from the series A Collection of Plays Old and New (Kokon Jōruri zukushi)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Yabase Kihan, from the series Eight Views of Lake Biwa (ōmi hakkei)

Sadanobu

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō 5th AS A PRIEST

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

Actor Otani Tokuji AS AMAKAWAYA GIHEI

Katsukawa Shunkō

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

Portrait of Actor Shirai Gompachi, from the series "Designs by Kuniyoshi of Infamous Rogues" (Kuniyoshi moyo shofudatsuki genkin otoko)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 19th century

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

Couple at Kamejima/ Rabbit (U) -- Kamejima, from the series Allusion to the Twelve Zodiac Animals at Famous Places in Edo for the Ichiyō Circle (Ichiyōren Edo meisho mitate jūnishi), with poems by Buntōsha Morishige and Bunpukutei Mamenari

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭, Edo period, 1827

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

Matsubara Naoko, Shōwa period, dated 1967

Quaker Meeting

Woodblock print; ink on paper with signature reading "Naoko Matsubara"

20th centuryJapanese