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Artists

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿Artist

Classification

Prints

Medium

Ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Paper: H. 37.2 cm x W. 25.3 cm (14 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Related Artworks

Prints

Hideyoshi and his Five Wives Viewing the Cherry Blossoms at Higashiyama

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, circa 1803-1804

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

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Kinkaku-ji in Snow (Yuki no Kinkaku-ji)

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, 1917

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

ASAKUSA TEMPLE IN THE SNOW, from the series Famous Places of the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Falcon on Plum Branch, from the series A Collection of Thirty-Six Birds and Animals (Sanjūroku tori zukushi)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Edo period, circa 1825

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in shikishi format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper with printed signature reading "Hokkei"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Triptych: Imperial Fleet Firing a Cannon Near Haiyang Island (Kaiyōtō fukin teikoku gunkan happō no zu)

Mizuno Toshikata, Meiji period, 1894

Woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Making Bamboo Curtains/The Bamboo Blind Shell (Sudaregai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Edo period, datable to 1821

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Daimyo's Son Viewing the Sumida River

Utagawa Kuninaga 歌川國長

Left panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

On the Run

Taniguchi Shigeru, c. 1979

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Kayoi, from the series Seven Beautiful Women (Fūryū nana komachi)

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, Late Edo period, late 18th to early 19th century

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

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Beauty with Child Attendant

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, 1821-25

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

19th centuryJapanese