Actor Nakamura Noshio 1st

Shinoda Tōkō 篠田桃紅, Shōwa period, circa 1970s

After Rain A

Lithograph; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Actors Bandō Hikosaburō and Matsumoto Koshirō 2ND AS THE SOGA BROTHERS

Torii Kiyohiro 鳥居清廣

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Harutsugu (Haruji), Edo period, circa 1765-1770

Man with Three Women

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

Illustrated Book of Haiku (Haikai wakana)

Hanabusa Ippō, Mid Edo period, 1756

Thread-bound book; ink and light color on paper

Sumō Wrestling Tournament (Kanzin ōsumō torikumi no zu)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Late Edo period, 1858

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper and with printed signature reading "Kōchōrō Kunisada ga"

19th centuryJapanese

MAN WITH PIPE, BOY LEADING OX.

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Ink on paper

Miyajima, No. 3 (Sono san), from the set Three Scenic Views (Sankei no uchi)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, c. 1833

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

19th centuryJapanese

WOMAN STANDING BY VERANDAH, SMOKING PIPE

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

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

Zegai, from a series of Play Bills of Kumazaka

Torii Kiyomasu, Edo period, circa early 18th century

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink on paper

Jo and Uba, the Spirits of the Pine Trees of Takasago and Sumiyoshi

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

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

Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Bandō Hikosaburō IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa kō, Azuma Ichinojō I as Kashitsuki Sugibae (right sheet), Onoe Kikujirō II as Besshitsu Fuji no kata (center sheet), unidentified actor as Koshimoto Kodemari, and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Ashikaga Jirō no kimi (left sheet)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, 1851, 8th month

Woodblock-printed triptych; ink and color on paper