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Artists

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

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

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 31.5 cm x W. 14.6 cm (12 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.)

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Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō AS ōISHI KURANOSUKE (HEAD OF THE 47 LOYAL RONIN) STANDING BY A WALL

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, 18th century

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Scene from the Nō Play Takasago

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Oiran Seated on Cherry Tree Trunk

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Woman by a Bathtub

Torii Kiyomitsu 鳥居清満, mid 18th century

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New Year at Court, detached page from the book Picture Book of Comic Poems for the Young Ebisu (Ehon waka Ebisu)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, 1789

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The "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari) in Ten Volumes (Jūjo Genji), vol. 2

Nonoguchi Ryūho, Early Edo period, 1661

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Beating the Second Wife According to the Old Custom

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Actor Sakata Hangorō 2nd AS A SHITTEL

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Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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Two Men Drinking Tea at a Restaurant by a Stream/ Fujieda, from the series Exhaustive Illustrations of the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi ezukushi)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, 1810

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Stencil for Illustrated Don Quixote (Ehon Don Kihōte)

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