One of seven folding books; printed in ink on dyed paper with red dots of punctuation and selected readings in "kana" (Japanese syllabary) added in ink

13th centuryJapanese

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View of the Amusements of the Foreigners in Yokohama, Bushu (Bushu Yokohama gaikokujin yūkyō no zu), published by Yamadaya Shōjirō

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎, Late Edo period, first month of 1861

Center sheet from a Yokohama woodblock-printed ōban triptych; ink and color on paper

19th centuryJapanese

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Scene from "Rustic Genji" (Inaka Genji)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, circa 1847-1852

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

19th centuryJapanese

Prints

Mount Fuji from Behind, from the series One Hundred Views of New Japan (Shin Nippon hyakkei)

Fukazawa Sakuichi, Shōwa period, dated 1939

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

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Fukuchi Gen'ichirō, from the series Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition (Kyōdō risshi motoi)

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親, 1885 (Meiji 18)

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

19th centuryJapanese

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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

Japanese

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Triptych: Narihira Ason shokan ryaku

Hosoda Eishō (Chōkōsai)

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Japanese

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Emperor Nintoku (Nintoku Tennō: Nihongi), from the series Twenty-Four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honchō Circle (Honchōren honchō nijūshikō), with poem by Isonoya Naonari

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

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

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Prints

Mount Fuji, from the portfolio Collection of Seihō's Masterworks (Seihō ippin shū)

Takeuchi Seihō 竹内栖鳳, 1937

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

20th centuryJapanese

Prints

Perspective View of Dancers in an Interior

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎

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

Japanese