title: The Overgrowth of Weeds, No. 15 from the series "Genji in Fifty-four Sheets (Genji gojuyonmai no uchi)"

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; horizontal hosoban, beni-e


title: Kokonoe of the Maruya, from the series Beauties of the Licensed Quarter (Kakuchu bijin kurabe)

creator: Rekisentei Eiri

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Third Princess (Nyosan no miya)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: Shrine Maidens Onami and Ohatsu Dancing at Yushima Tenjin Shrine

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Courtesan Standing by Screen and Bed

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: The actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III as Onayo

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: Mount Satta in Suruga Province (Suruga Sattayama), from the series "Famous Places in the Provinces (Shokoku meisho)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei

medium: Color woodblock print; horizontal otanzaku


title: Admiring the wisteria at Kameido Shrine

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych (left sheet: 1939.2197)


title: Scene in the Yoshiwara, from the series "Views of Yoshiwara"

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

date: About 1680

medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e, oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock


title: Emon Hill, from the series "The Appearance of Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)"

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e


title: A Floating World Version of Saigyo at the Village of Eguchi (Ukiyo Saigyo Eguchi no sato)

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e


title: Courtesan Painting a Screen, from a series of 12 erotic prints

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I


title: Happy Ending

medium: Woodblock print; oban yoko-e, sumizuri-e


title: Girls of Fukagawa - A Triptych (Fukagawa musume sanpukutsui)

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, benizuri-e


title: A parody of Narihira's eastern journey

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: Kumagai Naozane and Taira no Atsumori at the battle of Ichi-no-tani

creator: Kondo Kiyoharu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; uncut hosoban diptych, urushi-e


title: A Priest Sweeping in the Snow

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase no kihan), No. 5 from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Kamada Matahachi and Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu Shinju Tamoto no Shirashibori," performed at the Morita Theater, 1720


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Kuzunoha


title: Trimming Her Nails

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Sugawara no Michizane


title: The Courtesan Komurasaki (Tayu Komurasaki)

creator: Torii Kiyotada I

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e


title: Ukifune and Ukon approach the island of Tachibana

medium: Woodblock print; hosoban


title: Shoki the Demon Queller Sharpening His Sword


title: Saigyo Hoshi gazing at Mt. Fuji

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)"

date: early 1760s


title: Chinese Poet

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e


title: Takigawa of the Ogiya in the First Sale of the New Year (Hatsu uri zashiki no zu), from the series "A Comparison of Selected Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Poet Nakamaro (Abe no Nakamaro), from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"


title: Sugawara Michizane Going into Exile


title: Smoking on a Bench

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Poem by Sanjo'in no Nyokurodo Sakon, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Girl Riding a Crane (parody of Hi Chobo [Chinese: Fei Zhangfang])


title: Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain


title: Two Girls Leaving a Boat


title: The Hole in the Wall


title: Shirabyoshi Dancer standing in Asazuma Boat


title: Parody of the Story of Narukami

creator: Artist unknown


title: The Actors Anegawa Daikichi as Sankatsu and Bando Hikosaburo II as Hanshichi in the play "Soga Mannen Bashira," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the sixth month, 1760

medium: Color woodblock print; o-hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Two Egrets in the Snow

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: White Rabbit and Amaranth


title: Toei Hill (Toeizan), from the series "Five Hills of Edo (Koto no gozan)"

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


title: Asuka Hill (Asukayama), from the series "Five Hills of Edo (Koto no gozan)"


title: The Sumo Wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo of the Eastern Group, with an Attendant

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Sumo Wrestler Tanikaze and the Waitress Okita of the Naniwaya


title: The Sakuragawa Teahouse

creator: Attributed to Kitao Shigemasa


title: The actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III as the Gion prostitute Onayo in the play "Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga," performed at the Miyako Theater in the fifth month, 1794

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase): the Hostess of the Izumiya Teahouse

creator: Rekisentei Eiri


title: The Courtesan Hanahito of the Ogiya and attendants Sakura and Momiji, from the series "Beauties of the Five Festivals (Bijin gosekku)"

creator: Ichirakutei Eisui


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Minamoto no Yoritomo in a dance interlude in scene two of the Joruri "Courtesan's Rouge on a Snow White Face (Oyama Beni Yuki no Sugao)" from the play "Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums (Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata)," performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Checkerboard
Theatrical role
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the Courtesan Agemaki in the Play Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsu-zakura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1776

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of triptych


title: Tomigaoka, from the series "Ten Scenes of Teahouses (Chamise jikkei)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Actors Nakamura Nakazô I as Danshichi Kurobei and Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Issun Tokubei in “Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival” (“Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

date: About 1779

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych


title: Hamamuraya: Segawa Kikunojo III as Shirabyoshi Hisakata, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Portraits
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the shop boy Chokichi


title: The Interesting Type (Omoshiroki so), from the series “Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women" ("Fujin sogaku juttai")

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: Woman Reading a Letter, from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon) (Fumi yomu onna)


title: Courtesan of Osaka and Her Attendant, left sheet of a triptych of beauties of the three capitals (Sanpukutsui Osaka hidari)

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; wide hashira-e, beni-e


title: Takashima Ohisa


title: Shoki the Demon Queller Marching to the Left

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Jurojin with crane and tortoise

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

date: 18th century

medium: Woodblock print; hashira-e, sumizuri-e


title: Young woman releasing a bird

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e, benizuri-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Birds
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Woman on a Veranda About to Open a Love-letter

date: mid–late 1770s

medium: Color woodblock print; wide hashira-e


title: Woman with Black Hood in Windblown Leaves, from the series "Twelve Scenes of Popular Customs (Fuzoku juni tsui)"

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Woman Dressing


title: Courtesan Descending Stairs


title: Shoki, the demon-queller

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu


title: Young man arranging irises in a vase

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro


title: Parody of Ariwara no Narihira's journey to the east

creator: Masunobu

date: c. early 1770s


title: Priest Saigyo Contemplating Mount Fuji

creator: Kitao Shigemasa


title: The Dance of the Shrine Maidens Ohatsu and Onami

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Two Girls under an Umbrella

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: Abalone Divers

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: View of an Afternoon Downpour at Mount Tenpo in Osaka (Osaka Tenpozan yudachi no kei), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei


title: Autumn Moon of the Jewel River, View of Fishermen Catching Sweetfish (Tamagawa shugetsu, Tamagawa ayukumi no zu), from the series "Eight VIews of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"

creator: Utagawa Toyoshige (Toyokuni II)


title: Evening Snow on Mount Fuji, Complete View of the Inner and Middle Shrines at Shimo Sengen (Fuji bosetsu, Shimo Sengen atomiya nakamiya zenzu), from the series "Eight VIews of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"


title: Evening Glow at Atami, True View of Oshima from Atami Harbor (Atami sekisho, Atamigahama yori Oshima no shinkei), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"


title: Clearing Weather at Enoshima, Morokoshigahara off the Shore of Koyurugi (Enoshima seiran, Koyurugi no iso Morokoshigahara), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"


title: Returning Sails at Kanazawa, View of Nojima from Seto Bridge (Kanazawa kihan, Setobashi yori Nojima no zu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"


title: Evening Bell at Kamakura, View of the Mountains of Awa Province from Tsurugaoka (Kamakura bansho, Tsurugaoka yori Boshu yama no zu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"


title: Night Rain at Oyama, View of the Summit Above the Former Fudo Temple (Oyama yau, juzen Fudo yori chojo no zu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Places (Meisho hakkei)"

subjects:
Architecture
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Ships Entering Tenpozan Harbor (Tenpozan mansen nyushin no zu), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Ships & the sea
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Stone Bridge over the Aji River near Nii Hill, Osaka (Osaka Ajigawa Niiyama ishibashi), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)"


title: Chrysanthemums

creator: Isoda Koryusai

medium: Color woodblock print; nagaban surimono


title: The Actors Matsumoto Hyozo as a courtesan and Nakagawa Hanzaburo as a young man

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, tan-e


title: Two Lovers, Oshichi and Kichisaburo

creator: Attributed to Okumura Masanobu


title: Courtesan and Two Attendants Parading by a Stream

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych


title: Sparrow on camellia branch

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: Small bird and ivy


title: Japanese white-eye and persimmons


title: Parrot on plum branch


title: An Arrangement of Shuro Palm Leaves in a Bronze Jar

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Palms
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Tanabata Festival, from the from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: A Woman Peddler of Needles and Thread

creator: Hanegawa Chincho

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; koban, beni-e


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1776

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych (?)


title: Geese Descending on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Prosperity in the Eastern Village (Azuma no sato eiga hakkei)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Saito Sanemori in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Matano no Goro in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as Lady Hotoke (Hotoke Gozen) in the Play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III in an Unidentified Role

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition (?)


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: Actors Nakamura Nakazô I as Danshichi Kurobei and Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Issun Tokubei in “Mirror of Osaka in the SummerFestival” (“Natsu MatsuriNaniwa Kagami”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych


title: Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role

date: About 1785


title: Fashionable Beauties in a Chrysanthemum Garden (Furyu bijin kikubatake)

creator: Kikukawa Eizan

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Courtesan of the Chikiriya in Furuichi, Ise Province, from the series "Comparison of Proverbs and Customs (Tatoegusa fuzoku awase)"


title: Ginjuro's Wife Oyumi from the Play "Whirlpools of Awa" (Awa no naruto, Ginjuro nyobo Oyumi), from the series "Bamboo Nodes in Puppet Theater Designs (Ayatsuri moyo take no hitofushi)"


title: Tsukioka of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya uchi tsukioka), from the series "Seiro bijin meika awase"


title: The Courtesan Yosooi of the Matsubaya


title: A Wife of the Lower Rank (Gebon no nyobo), from the series "A Guide to Women's Contemporary Styles (Tosei onna fuzoku tsu)"


title: Geisha Style (geisha fū) from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tōsei fūzoku tsū)


title: Turning a Shamisen (Shamisen no nejime), from the series "Chanting to Shamisen by Young Women of Today (Tosei musume joruri)"


title: The Mimeguri Embankment on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Mimeguri tsutsumi), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"


title: Poem by Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Fashionable Six Immortal Poets (Furyu rokkasen)"


title: Hawk on Plum Branch Looking Down at Fleeing Bird

creator: Attributed to Isoda Koryusai


title: The Autumn Moon at Tokaiji (Tokaiji no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of the Shinagawa (Furyu Shinagawa hakkei)"


title: Parody of a daimyo procession

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock prints; 6 of 12 sheets (see 1928.391-396)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Asian art


title: Women Standing on Veranda by a River

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: Couresan Admiring Chrysanthemums

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


title: Preparing Seven Herbs on the Seventh Day of the New Year

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Zhuangzi (Japanese: Soshi), from the series "Shunshoku ressenkyo"

creator: Attributed to Teisai Hokuba

medium: Color woodblock print; kokonotsugiri-ban, surimono


title: Snake (Mi), from the series "Parody of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Mitate juni shi)"

creator: Hotei Gosei

date: early 19th century

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Woman and attendant at entrance gate of Enoshima

creator: Totoya Hokkei

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Blue Shell (Aogai), from the series "Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)"

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Shells & molluscs
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Parody of Liu Bei (J: Gentoku) Visiting Zhuge Liang (J: Komei) in Wind and Snow (Gentoku fusetsu ni Komei o tazureru)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: The Yang Guifei Cherry Tree (Yokihisakura), from the series "Cherry Trees for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika sakuratsukushi)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Min Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression


title: Fishing Excursion

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of aiban triptych


title: The Proper Way of Drinking New Year's Sake (Toso no miki namesomuru tei), from the series "Teaching Manners According to the Colors of the Spring (Shunshoku shitsukekata)"

medium: Colro woodblock print; koban, surimono


title: Stencil with Design of Mallows

creator: Japan

date: Late 19th century

medium: Mulberry paper treated with persimmon juice, with silk web reinforcement

subjects:
Stencil
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Asian art
Print


title: The Harugoma Dance

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Kasuya Takenori, from the series "Parody of the Seven Spear-bearing Samurai of Yanagase (Ito no Yanagase shichihon yari ume)"

medium: Color woodblock print; junigiriban, surimono


title: A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase): Courtesans Hired for the New Years Holidays - Takigawa of the Ogiya

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Oiso no Tora or Kewaizaka no Shosho, Disguised as a Female Komusu (?), in the Play Yui Kanoko Date-zome Soga (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1774 (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Actor Yamashita Kyonosuke I in a Female Role

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Tsunewaka-maru in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1775


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Nijo no Kisaki (?) in the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1770 (?)


title: The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya House, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"


title: Meeting her Lover (parody of the Yugao chapter of "Tale of Genji")

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban diptych


title: The Courtesan Chibune of the Ebiya House, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"


title: Snow on the Way Back from the Public Bath

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Girl Playing with a Cat

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Man Pulling at a Woman's Kimono


title: The Waitress Osen of the Kagiya Teahouse Holding a Fan


title: Entertainers of the Tachibana, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Courtesan Standing Beneath a Shelf for Talismans

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham collection


title: Sunset Glow of Late Summer (Choka no sekisho), from the series "Eight Scenes of the Four Seasons (Shiki hakkei)"


title: Geisha Carrying a Parasol under a Willow Tree


title: Calligraphy, from the series "Fashionable Versions of the Four Accomplishments (Furyu kinkishoga)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Manzan of the Chojiya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Yu Kinro (Chinese: Yu Qianlou), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)""


title: Two Courtesans Watching an Attendant Play with a Rat

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Cuckoo flying over deutzia flowers

creator: Komatsuya Hyakki

subjects:
Print
Japan
Flowers
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Crane, Bamboo and Iris


title: The actor Ichikawa Tomiemon as Inokuma Monbei

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Taking Leave


title: Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as a Mendicant Monk in “Courtesan: Kerria Roses at Ide” (“Keisei Ide no yamabuki”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

date: About 1787

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Roses
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I and Ichikawa Omezo I at a Teahouse

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Possibly as Matsuya Soshichi, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; center sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III, Possibly as the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych


title: Returning from a Poetry Gathering

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)


title: The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II, Possibly as Misao Gozen, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Inland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of the Seventh Month, 1785

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Sakura-maru in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1772


title: Oboshi Yuranosuke at the Ichiriki Teahouse, from scene VII in the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers

medium: Color woodblock print; right and center sheets of oban triptych


title: The Actor Nakamura Juzo II in an Unidentified Role

medium: Color woodblock print; large hosoban


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Arashi Hinaji in an Unidentified Female Role


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Oishi (?) or Osono (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1771 (?)


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Osuwa in the Play Koi no Yosuga Kanagaki Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Monther, 1789

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified role


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Kan Shojo, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Third Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Dozaburo Disguised as the Ruffian Tobei (?) in the Play Haru no Nishi Date-zome Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1790 (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei


title: Woman on a Verandah About to Open a Letter

medium: Color woodblock print; wide hashira-e


title: Tachibanaya: Ichikawa Yaozo III as Shimobe Hatsuhei, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: Listening to the cuckoo's cry

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Young woman stepping out of a boat

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych


title: Koraiya: Ichikawa Komazo III, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: Masatsuya: Otani Oniji III as Ono Sadakuro, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: Okita and Ofuji

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the series "Comparing the Charms of Five Beauties (Gonin bijin aikyo kurabe)"


title: The Fourth Month (Shigatsu), from the series "The Twelve Months (Juni toki)"


title: No. 15: Itahana (Jugo: Itahana), from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)"

creator: Keisai Eisen


title: Narihira, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Henjo, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: The Priest Kisen, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Komachi, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Kuronushi, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: The Jewel River at Ide (Ide no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Yasuhide, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: The theater manager Shinozuka Uraemon reading the program for the Miayako Theater


title: Courtesan and Attendants Parading under Cherry Tree

creator: Komai Yoshinobu


title: Yoshitsune and Benkei at Ataka barrier

creator: Ran-u


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Ito Kuro Disguised as Banta in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych


title: Ono no Komachi, from A Set of Three Beauties (Bijin sanpukutsui)

creator: Nishimura Shigenobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e


title: Mitate (Parody) of Ono no Tofu in the Play Geiko Zashiki Kyogen


title: The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Sengokuya Ihei and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as his wife Omatsu in the play "Kashiwa ga Toge Kichirei no Sumo," performed at Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1755

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: Ichimura Kamezo I performing the Sanbaso dance

medium: Color woodblock print; o-hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Eight-Plank Bridge (parody of "Tales of Ise")

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Two Women Washing Their Hair


title: Poem by Mibuno no Tadami, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Daruma and a young woman in the rain

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono


title: Dreaming of the Heron Maiden


title: Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter

creator: Shiba Kokan (Suzuki Harushige)


title: The Actors Bando Matakuro IV as Chubei, Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Umegawa, and Nakamura Katsugoro as Magoemon, in the play "Keisei Koibikyaku," performed at the Morita Theater in the fifth month, 1783

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Twelfth Month (Harumachizuki), from the series "Fashionable Monthly Visits to Sacred Places in the Four Seasons (Furyu shiki no tsuki mode)"


title: The Echigoya on New Year's Day

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: The Actors Arashi Ryuzo II and Ichikawa Komazo III, from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, pentaptych (first sheet from the right)


title: Actor Nakayama Tomisaburô as a Shirabyôshi Dancer in “The Maiden at Dôjô Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1794

medium: Color woodblock print; ôban


title: Jurojin, from the series "A Comparison of the Treasures of the Gods of Good Fortune (Fukujin takara awase)"


title: Ukiyo Genji hakkei : Suzumushi no bansho


title: Takigawa of the Ogiya (Ogiya uchi Takigawa, Onami, Menami, Kisagawa, Hanamichi, Himekawa, Kumegawa)


title: A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi Rokkasen): Ono no Komachi

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Courtesans Hanaogi, Segawa, and Miyahito of the Ogiya

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: New Clothes for the Festival of New Herbs (Wakana no hatsuisho): Tamagiku of the Kadotamaya with Attendants Kikuno and Kikuji


title: Ladies behind screen in a daimyo's mansion

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban pentaptych


title: Beauty applying rouge, from the series "Comaprison of Beauties in Eastern Brocade (Azuma nishiki bijin awase)"

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine)


title: Festivity at a teahouse, from a parody of Chushingura


title: The Courtesan Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series "Courtesans of the Five Festivals (Yukun gosekku)"


title: Snow, Moon, and Flowers in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro setsugekka) : Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya with Attendants Shirabe and Teriha


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Ebisu in the play "Suehiro Eho Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1729

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Rokugo, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Retrieving the Shuttlecock

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: The actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as the wet nurse Shigenoi

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: Bamboo and rising sun

creator: Utagawa Kunimaru


title: The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Date no Yosaku


title: The actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Osan, Ippei’s elder sister


title: The actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Sagisaka Sanai


title: The actors Sawamura Yodogoro II (R) as Kawatsura Hogen and Bando Zenji (L) as Onisadobo


title: The actors Ichikawa Yaozo lll (R) as Fuwa Banzaemon and Sakata Hangoro lll (L) as Kosodate Kannonbo


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Saeki Kurando Tsunenori (Sandai-me Ichikawa Yaozo no Saeki Kurando Tsunenori)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e


title: The Actor Yamashina Shirojuro as Nagoya Sanzaemon (Yamashina Shirojuro no Nagoya Sanzaemon)


title: Tachibanaya Chusha (The actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Hachiman Taro Minamoto no Yoshiie)

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Nakamura Nakazo II in the Role of Aramaki Mimishiro Kanetora Disguised as Saiwaka


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Shirabyoshi Hisakata of Miyako Kujo (Sandai-me Segawa Kikunojo no Miyako Kujo no Shirabyoshi Hisakata)


title: The actor Ichikawa Tomiemon as Inokuma Monbei


title: Morita Kan'ya Vll in the Role of Yura Hyogonosuke Nobutada


title: Visiting (Kayoi) - a parody of Shosho visiting Komachi

creator: Attributed to Mangetsudo

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e


title: The actor Matsumoto Yonesaburo as Shinobu in the guise of the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho


title: The Cock Fight - Ohisa of the Takashimaya and Okita of the Naniwaya

creator: Eishosai Choki


title: Yasuhide, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: The Front Room of the Naniwaya (Naniwaya misesaki)

medium: Color woodblock prints; aiban triptych


title: The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: The God of Thunder and his Drum

creator: Artist Unknown

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: Sugawara of the Tsuruya with Attendants Mumeno and Takeno


title: Evening Rain at Shukaku - the actor Nakamura Nakazo as Sadakuro, from an untitled series of actor prints


title: Omiya Kinsha (The actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Ohide, wife of Sazanami Tatsugoro [actually Teriha, younger sister of Abe no Sadato])


title: Hairdressing Room (Kamibeya), from the series "Ten Kinds of Incense in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro jisshu ko)"


title: The Actor Nakajima Wadaemon as Migawari no Jizo, the Master of the House, from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura (Nakajima Wadaemon no Kamakura Inamuragaasaki no yanushi, Migawari no Jizo)


title: Poem by Fujiwara no Teika, from the series "Yoshiwara Courtesans in the Three Evenings (Yoshiwara keisei sanseki)"

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e


title: Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Osada no Tarô in The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith (Ima o sakari suehiro Genji)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1768


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV possibly as Tenjiku Tokubei in the play "Tenjiku Tokubei Turns the Helm toward Home (Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji)," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1768

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: Lovers Dressed as Komuso Monks in an Autumn Landscape

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Landscapes
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as a Monk, Raigo Ajari, in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (Forest of the Nue Monster: Target of the Eleventh Month), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Hakata no Kojoro (?) in the Play Shitenno-ji Nobori Kuyo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych


title: The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1772


title: Black Horse Tethered under a Blossoming Cherry Tree


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Hata Rokurozaemon Disguised as the Samurai's Manservant (Yakko) Igaguri Hanehei (left), and Nakamura Noshio I as the Lady-in-Waiting Koto no Naishi (right), in the Dance Sequence "Sodegasa Momiji no Tekuda" (Umbrella Sleeves: Coquettish Tricks at Maple Time), from the Fourth Act of the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki (The War Tale Taiheiki: With Din and Clamor of Battle), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in a "Shibaraku" Role, Probably as Kato Hyoeisa Shigemitsu, in the Third Scene of the Play Masakado Kammuri no Hatsuyuki (The First Snow on Taira no Masakado's Court Headdress), Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as the Courtesan Miyagino (?) in the Play Go Taiheiki Shiraishi-banashi (?), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Monk Renseibo in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych


title: Actor Segawa Kikunojô III as a Shirabyôshi Dancer in “The Maiden at Dôjô Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)

date: About 1783

subjects:
Architecture
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of Joro-gumo (Harlot Spider) Disguised as the Maiko Tsumagiku (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake (left), in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Spiders & arachnids
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Monk Mongaku Disguised as Seizaemon Bozu in the Play Oakinai Hiru ga Kojima, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as the Monk Izayoibo in the Play Keisei Katabira ga Tsuji, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1783

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III (right), in His Dressing Room in Conversation with the Actor Segawa Kikunojo III (left)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I as the Geisha Yukino (or Oyuki?) in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1781


title: Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)

date: About 1776

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych


title: Man Falling Backward, Startled by a Woman's Ghost over a River

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 (Japanese, 1726-1792)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Buddhist Monk Wantetsu from Okamidani, in the Fifth Scene of the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori (A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych or triptych, or center sheet of triptych


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Yokambei (right), Nakamura Tomijuro I as Kuzunoha (center), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Yakambei (left), in the Last Scene from the Play Shinodazuma (The Wife from Shinoda Forest), Performed as a Supplement to the Play Kikyo-zome Onna Urakata (Female Diviner in Deep Violet), at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1776

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; triptych


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo (right), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)


title: The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Seno-o Taro, Ichikawa Komazo II as Yorimasa, Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kiou Takiguchi (right to left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune, Nakamura Nakazo I as Raigo Ajari, Sakata Tojuro III as Kamada Gon-no-kami Masayori, and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakon-gitsune (right to left), in the play "Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; page from the illustrated book "Yakusha Kuni no Hana"


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori (right), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tokiwa Gozen (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Arashi Sangoro II as Minamoto no Yoritomo (right), Segawa Kikunojo II as Yuki Onna (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kajiwara Genta no Kagetoki, in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Bando Zenji I as Nagahashi Saburo, Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune, Nakamura Konozo as Hagai Ujitsune, and an Unidentified Actor (right to left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Minamoto no Yorimasa (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as Yatsurugi Zaemon (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (left), In the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (right), Onoe Kikugoro I as Soga no Taro (center), and Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (right), Segawa Kikunojo II as Princess Tatsu (Tatsu Hime) (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Ichikawa Somegoro (right), Segawa Kikunojo II (center), and Bando Sampachi (left), in Unidentified Roles in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actors Nakamura Kashiwagi as a Wakashu (second from right), and Three Unidentified Actors as Yakko


title: The Actors Arashi Sangoro II as Hojo Tokiyori (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Koga Saburo (left), in the Play Kono Hana Yotsugi no Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Nakamura Noshio I as Nyosan no Miya (right), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Monk Yochin (center), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as the Maid Mutsuhana (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Yamashita Yaozo I as Ono no Komachi (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Godai Saburo (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as Otomo no Kuronushi (left), in the play "Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1771


title: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Akaboshi Taro (right), and Azuma Tozo II as Shirotae (left), in the Play Kono Hana Yotsugi no Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada (right), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shizuya (center), and Nakamura Matsue I as Sakuragi (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Kujaku no Saburo, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Hata no Daizen Taketora, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, and Nakamura Shocho I as Ki no Tsurayuki (right to left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Hagun Taro (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Izutsu no Suke Narihira (center), and Nakamura Nakazo I as Kose no Kanaoka Disguised as Sogoro the Charcoal Maker, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Otomo no Yamanushi (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as Hannya no Goro (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Matsukaze (right), Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

medium: Color woodblock print


title: The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II as Mutsuhana (right), Bando Mitsugoro I as Kashiwagi no Emon (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Akamatsu Mushanosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Sawamura Kijuro I as Ikazuchi Shinno, Prince of Thunder (far left), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo (second from left), Nakamura Sukegoro II as Seitaka Doji (second from right), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Kongara Doji (far right), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Miura Kunitae (right), Segawa Kikunojo III as Yasukata (center), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Utou (left), in the Play Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1782

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from an unidentified theatrical picture-book


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danzo IV as Arakawa Taro Takesada Disguised as the Palanquin Bearer Tarobei (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Abe no Sadato Disguised as the Pilgrim Kuriyagawa Jirodayu (left), in the Play Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1782


title: Night Rain at the Paulownia Grove at Akasaka (Akasaka Kiribatake uchu yukei), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Aso no Matsuwaka (?) in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1775 (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: A Young Man Dressed as an Actor of the Ichikawa Family (by Shunsho), a Maid and a Geisha (by Shuncho)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho

date: late 1780s

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

creator: Katsukawa Shunsen


title: Musashi, from the series "Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyu Mu Tamagawa)"

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: Hour of the Sheep [2 pm] (hitsuji no koku), from the series “Sundial of Young Women" ("Musume hi-dokei")

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: The Ninth Month (Kikuzuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"


title: Settsu, from the series "Fashionable Six Jewel Rivers (Furyu Mu Tamagawa)"


title: The Seventh Month (Fumizuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"


title: The Eighth Month (Sogetsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"


title: Ikkyoku, from an untitled series of No plays

creator: Takashima Chiharu

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: The Third Month (Hanamizuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni tsuki)"


title: Soriko, from an untitled series of No plays


title: Ninnaraku, from an untitled series of No plays


title: Nasori, from an untitled series of No plays


title: Saisoro, from an untitled series of No plays


title: Wine bottle, bowl, and plum branch, from the series "Two Famous Products from Bizen Province (Bizen meibutsu futashina)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei


title: Kishunraku, from an untitled series of No plays


title: Still-Life with Monkey Mask

creator: Totoya Hokkei

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban


title: Court lady standing amidst pines

creator: Katsushika Taito II


title: Wasabi root with dried bonito and knife on a lacquer tray

date: early 1820s


title: Plum Branch

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

date: late 18th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Ferry boat on the Yodo River

creator: Teisai Hokuba


title: Jar, scales and bowl, no. 6 from the series "The Rabbit's Boastful Exploits (Usagi tegarabanashi)"

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai


title: Dancer in Momijigari, from an untitled series of nerimono festival dancers

creator: Yanagawa Shigenobu I


title: Parody of a daimyo procession

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock prints; 6 of 12 sheets (see 1928.397-402)


title: Kingfisher and hydrangea

medium: Color woodblock print; chutanzaku


title: The Courtesan Shizuka of the Shizutamaya

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Sparrows, Thatched Roof, and Bamboo

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e


title: Lion and Peonies

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; wide hashira-e, urushi-e


title: The Morning After, from "Thinking of Rising from Bed - A Set of Three (Toko banare omoi iri sanpukutsui)"

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Sanjo Kantaro as a courtesan

creator: Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke as a nobleman and Dekishima Daisuke as a noblewoman


title: The Actor Hayakawa Shinkatsu as a Woman Standing under Cherry Tree

creator: Shoju


title: The Princess Style (Ohimesama-fu)

creator: Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I, right sheet of "Flower Vendor Triptych (Hanauri sanpukutsui)"

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II


title: Knocking the snow from a pair of clogs


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Kumasaka Chohan, Ichimura Kamezo I as Ise no Saburo, and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ushiwakamaru in the play "Hatsu Tora Kurama Genji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1749

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Mizue Gozen in the play "Suehiro Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1745 (?)


title: Evening Glow at Seta (Seta no sekisho), No. 1 from the series "Eight Views of Omi"

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga


title: The Actors Utagawa Shirogoro as Ukishima Daihachi and Sanogawa Senzo as Senju no Mae


title: The Actor Ichimura Kamezo I as Tanba Yosaku


title: Evening Snow on Mt. Hira (Hira no bosetsu), No. 6 from the series "Eight Views of Omi"


title: Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase no kihan), No. 3 from the series "Eight Views of Omi"


title: Autumn Moon at Ishiyama (Ishiyama no aki no tsuki), No. 8 from the series "Eight Views of Omi"


title: Descending Geese at Katada (Katada no rakugan), No. 7 from the series "Eight Views of Omi"


title: Serving tea under a willow tree


title: Evening Glow at Nojima (Nojima no sekisho), No. 7 from the series "Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)"


title: Young Girl Carrying a Flower Arrangement

creator: Nishikawa Sukenobu

date: first half of 18th century

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; page from an illustrated album


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ushiwakamaru in the play "Kiichi Hogen Shinanguruma," performed at the Morita Theater in the eleventh month, 1754

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Segawa Kikujiro I as Oshichi in the play "Shochikubai Kongen Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1732

creator: Nishimura Shigenobu


title: Peddler of Flowers of the Four Seasons - A Set of Three (Shiki no hanauri sanpukutsui)

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e


medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e,


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Oshichi and Nakamura Kumetaro I as Kichisaburo in the play "Izu Kosode Shobai Kagami," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the second month, 1751

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu


title: Entertainers performing the hobby-horse dance

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: Monkey trainer

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e, benizuri-e


title: The Poet Sugawara no Michizane Riding an Ox

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Matsukaze in the play "Kisoeuta Sakae Komachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1762


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Teraoka Heiemon in the play "Hoshi Aikotoba Higashiyama no Sakae," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1763


title: Young woman holding obi between her teeth


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the play "Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1769


title: The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Jo and Ichimura Kichigoro as Uba in a scene from Takasago

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban diptych, benizuri-e


title: Young Couple on a Veranda

creator: Torii Kiyotsune


title: Lovers on a Veranda


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as shirabyoshi dancer Makomo no Mae in the joruri "Iru ni Makase Yumiharizuki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767

creator: Kitao Shigemasa


title: The Heron Maiden


title: Peonies and Chinese Lions

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Itsuki and Bando Hikosaburo II as Oyamada Taro in the play "Taiheiki Shizunome Furisode," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1767


title: Watching the Game

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono


title: Young Man and Woman Talking through a Bamboo Blind

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Woman Stepping Out with a Lantern


title: A Courtesan Catching Her Attendant Sleeping


title: Resting in a Palanquin Beneath Cherry Blossoms


title: Viewing the Moon


title: Courtesan and Her Child Attendant Playing with a Cat


title: Making a Giant Snowball


title: A Young Monk, Courtesan, and Attendant atLattice Window


title: Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Poem by Sangi Takamura (Ono no Takamura), from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets


title: Young Woman Seated on the Balcony of Kiyomizu Temple


title: The Call of the Cuckoo from above the Clouds (parody of Minamoto no Yorimasa)

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Print


title: Parrot Komachi (Omu Komachi), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Evening Rain at Nihonzutsumi (Nihonzutsumi no yau), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"


title: The Eiraku-an teahouse in Kyoto


title: Pulling a Flower Cart


title: Courteousness (Rei), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"


title: Benevolence (Jin), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"


title: The Moon (Tsuki), from the series "Fashionable Scenes of Snow, Moon and Flowers (Furyu setsugekka)"


title: Knowledge (Chi), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"


title: First Love (Hatsu koi), a parody of the well-curb episode of the "Tales of Ise"


title: An Evening Visit (A Parody of Junidan Soshi)


title: Poem by Sakanoue no Korenori, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Courtesan Riding an Ox


title: The Smitten Thunder God Delivering a Love Letter to a Courtesan


title: Woman Standing beside a Mosquito Net Reading a Letter


title: A Spring Outing


title: Courtesan Riding a Carp (parody of the Daoist Immortal Kinko [Chinese: Qin Gao])


title: Picking a Plum Branch


title: An Inauspicious Day

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 (Japanese, 1724-70)


title: Young Man with Fishing Pole and Net


title: Beauty Adjusting Her Hairpin


title: Boy on Hobby Horse Followed by Woman Holding Umbrella


title: Nui and Chiyo from Daimon Fujiya performing the hobby-horse dance, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Two Fighting Lions


title: Sunrise, from the series "Fashionable Three Beginnings (Furyu mittsu no hajime)"


title: Kakkyo (Chinese: Guo Ju), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)"


title: Courtesan Watching her Attendant Detain Hooded Man


title: New Year's Day, from the series "Fashionable Three Beginnings (Furyu mittsu no hajime)"


title: Ono no Komachi Visiting Kiyomizu Temple, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)


title: Tiger, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"


title: Young Woman in the Glow of Sunset (Musume no sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of Fashionable Human Relations (Furyu jinrin mitate hakkei)"


title: Sugawara of the Tsuruya dreaming of Daikoku


title: The Tenth Month (Kannazuki): Wakamatsu and Wakatsuru of the Tawaraya, from the series "Twelve Patterns in the Northern Quarter (Hokkaku juni moyo)"

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Parody of the Armor-pulling Scene (Kusazuribiki), from the series "Fashionable Parodies of Bravery in Love (Furyu mitate iro-buyu)"


title: The Evening Bell of the Nun (Bikuni no bansho), from the series "Eight Views of Fashionable Human Relations (Furyu jinrin mitate hakkei)"


title: Young Man Holds a Kite for a Child


title: Parting

medium: Color woodblock print; tanzaku


title: Women Holding Boy who is Reaching Out to Young Man Below

creator: Attributed to Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Young Woman Hanging a Painting


title: Courtesan Walking with Veiled Man under Cherry Tree


title: Couple Standing on a Pier Embracing on a Moonlit Night


title: Young Woman Drops her Geta as She Boards a Boat


title: Young Woman Performing Sanbaso Dance


title: Young Woman Holding Parasol Admires Hirugao (noon-face) Flowers


title: Woman Wearing Black Hood Speaks to Young Boy


title: Delivering a Love Letter


title: Young Woman Feeding a Rat


title: Feeding the Carp at Kameido


title: Couple Lighting Pipes Under a Plum Tree


title: Eavesdropping


title: Courtesan Pulling a Young Man's Umbrella (parody of Rashomon)


title: Two Young Women Looking out at Young Man Dressed as Komuso


title: An Auspicious Dream

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of double hashira-e


title: Courtesan Dreaming of Eloping


title: Sweeping a Cobweb


title: The Courtesan Shirotae of the Okanaya


title: Young Couple Dressed as Mendicant Monks (Genpachi and Komurasaki?)


title: Young Couple in a Boat

creator: Uchimasa


title: Young Man Admiring a Girl through a Barred Window


title: The Actors Arashi Otohachi I as Fukakusa no Shosho, Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Ariwara no Yukihira, and Nakamura Matsue I as Murasame in the play "Kisoe Uta Sakae Komachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1762

creator: Tomikawa Fusanobu

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban yoko-e, benizuri-e


title: The Courtesan Matsukaze of Ogiya in Edo-machi Itchome (Edo-machi Itchome, Ogiya uchi Matsukaze)

creator: Komai Yoshinobu


title: Narihira's eastern journey

date: second half of 18th century


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Princess Usuyuki (Usuyuki Hime) in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Morita Theater in the fifth month, 1774

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as the Sumo Wrestler Matano no Goro in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych


title: "I": Coming of Age, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: Color-Printed Wrapper for the series "Furyu Nishiki-e Ise Monogatori"

medium: Color woodblock print


title: "Ro": Seaweed, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

subjects:
Seaweed & algae
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: "Ni": Akutagawa, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ha": Guards at the "Love Passage," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ho": Yatsuhashi Bridge in Mikawa Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Chi": Musashi Plain, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "To": Sumida River, Musashi and Shimosa Provinces, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ru": Northern Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Nu": Crossing Tatsuta, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ri": The Well Curb, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Wa": Young Grass, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Grasses & sedges
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: "O": Catalpa Bow, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Yo": A Man Meets a Former Lover, now Serving in a Provincial Household, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ka": A Court Lady Thinks Disconsolately of Her Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Re": The Imperial Huntsman, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ta": Purification Ceremony to Remove the Pains of Love, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Na": Nunobiki Waterfall, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ne": Brine Carriers, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "So": A Coquettish Woman, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Mu": Clapping the Hands to Effect a Curse, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role


title: "U": Narihira Presents a Chancellor with a Model of a Pheasant, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: "Ra": Narihira Requests a Painting from a Former Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"


title: Actor Ôtani Hiroji III and (possibly) Satsuma Gengobei in “Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design” (“Iro Moyô Aoyagi Soga”) from the series Fans of the East (Azuma ôgi)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1775

medium: Color woodblock print; bai aiban


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo, in Act Four (?) of the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato (Forest of the Nue Monster: Target of the Eleventh Month), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as the Boatman Jirosaku in the Play Oyafune Taiheiki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?)


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Karigane Obun, Nakayama Tomisaburo I as An no Oyasu, Iwai Kiyotaro II as Kaminari no Osha, Nakayama Tatezo I as Gokuin no Osen, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hotei no Oichi (right to left), in "Gonin Onna," Scene One of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1792

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; pentaptych


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a Female Role

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari Disguised as a Fox Trapper in the Play Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych


title: Ushiwaka-maru on the Gojo Bridge

date: reprint of c. 1769 design


title: The Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro, the Retainer of Utou Yasukata, in Part Two of the Play Kogane no Hana Gaijin Aramusha (Gold Flowers: The Triumphal Return of Fierce Warriors), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1766


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shume no Hangan Morihisa (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Chujo (left), in the Play Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1769

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; center and left sheets of triptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Benzo in an Unidentified Role


title: Hinaji of the Chojiya, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"


title: Ayase no Yusho, from the series "Bokusui Hakkei"


title: Sakata Sajūrō I as a Samurai’s Manservant

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō


title: Actor Arashi Hinaji I, (possibly) as Yuya Gozen in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (Ima o Sakari Genji)

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchô


title: View from Azuma Bridge, from the series "Ten Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan jikkei)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kusunoki Bokon and Sawamura Kijuro as Omori Hikoshichi in the Scene from a Drama (Sandaime Matsumoto Koshiro no Kusunoki Bokon to Sawamura Kijuro no Omori Hikoshichi)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Takata, from the series "Ten Summer Scenes in Edo (Edo natsu jikkei)"


title: Teahouse overlooking rice fields, from the series "Ten Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan jikkei)"


title: Courtesans and Their Child Attendants under Blossoming Cherry Trees

medium: Color woodblock print; right and center sheets of oban triptych

subjects:
Print
Japan
Trees
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Courtesans of Yoshiwara and their attendants viewing the peonies on Nakanocho

medium: Color woodblock print; center and right sheets of oban triptych


title: Courtesan Going to Bed, from the series "Ten Types of Beauties in Pictures (Jittai e-fuzoku)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Evening Snow at Kinryuzan Temple (Kinryuzan no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

medium: Color woodblock print; half hosoban (right side)


title: The Nakamise Shopping Street, from the series "Eight Precincts of the Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinryuzan hakkei)"


title: Two Women and a Child after a Bath

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Descending Geese at Mimeguri (Mimeguri no rakugan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

medium: Color woodblock print; half hosoban (left side)


title: Geisha Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Ueno

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: Mother Watching her Son Sleeping under a Mosquito Net

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Mother
Babie
Children
Parent
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Women in a Mansion


title: The Eleventh Month (Juichigatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Banzui Chobei in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban diptych (right: 1928.1029)


title: Actor Segawa Kikunojо̄ III as a Beauty in a Summer Kimono

creator: Katsukawa Shunjô

date: Early 1780s

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Lady Tomoe (Tomoe Gozen) in the Play Yasa Gumbai Miyako no Jindori, Performed at the Miyako Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1793


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Shirai Gompachi in the Play Gozen-gakari Sumo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Second Month, 1793

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban diptych (left: 1928.1028)


title: The First Work in the New Year (Saiko hajime)

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono, sheet from an album


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

date: late 1790s


title: Preparing Food for a Nightingale, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "Men's Stamping Dance (Otoko toka)"

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book


title: Hawk on a Plum Branch

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Tomimoto Toyohina


title: High-Ranked Courtesan, from the series Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter (Hokkoku goshiki-zumi) (Oiran)


title: Takashima Ohisa


title: Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Sasano, Takeno (Matsubaya uchi Kisegawa, Sasano, Takeno), from the series “Seven Komachi of Yoshiwara” ("Seiro nana Komachi")


title: Ha... of the Southern Station (Nan'eki ha-jirushi)


title: Tomimoto Toyohina, from the series "Famous Beauties of Edo (Edo komei bijin)"


title: Mirror, from the series “Eight Views of Tea-stalls in Celebrated Places" ("Meisho koshikake hakkei")


title: The Courtesan Yoso-oi of the Pine Needle House in the Yoshiwara and Her Attendant (Matsubaya Yoso-oi)


title: The Habit of Criticizing Others (Ta o soshiru kuse), from the series "Seven Bad Habits (Nakute nana kuse)"


title: The Poet Sojo Henjo, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"


title: The joruri, Nure tsubame negura no karakasa, from the series Joruri libretti (Joruri-bon) (Nure tsubame negura no karakasa, Osome, Hisamatsu)


title: The Poet Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"


title: The Poet Otomo no Kuronushi, from the series "Modern Children as the Six Immortal Poets (Tosei kodomo rokkasen)"


title: Mother Nursing Child

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Mother
Babie
Children
Nursing (breast feeding)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Goldfish


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro lV as Otoma, Daughter of Ohina from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura (Yondai-me Iwai Hanshiro no Kamakura Inamuragasaki no Ohina musume Otoma)

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e


title: The actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Shiga Daishichi


title: A Woman's Poetry Party

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: The actor Segawa Tomisaburo II as Prince Korehito in the guise of the maid Wakakusa of the Otomo family

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych (right: 1928.1061, left: 2003.337)


title: The actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Godai Saburo Chikatada

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban triptych (center: 1928.1062, left: 2003.337)


title: A Banquet Scene

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Kiyomizu, from the series "Seven Komachi (Nana Komachi)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Shirai Gonpachi and Komurasaki, from the series "Beauties in Joruri Roles (Bijin awase joruri kagami)"

creator: Ichirakutei Eisui

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Osome and Hisamatsu, from the series "Beauties in Joruri Roles (Bijin awase joruri kagami)"


title: The Courtesan Tsukioka of the Hyogoya


title: The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya


title: The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ogiya, from the series "Beauties of the Five Festivals (Bijin gosekku)"


title: The courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya


title: Yamatoya: Iwai Hanshiro IV as Katanaya Ohana, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Portraits
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Three Beauties of Our Time (Tosei san bijin)

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: Courting Komachi (Kayoi Komachi), from the series Seven Fashionable Figures of Ono no Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi yatushi sugata-e)

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1792


title: Takinoya: Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Juro, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI as Sukeroku in the play "Omiura Date no Nebiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1799


title: Kacho chaya


title: New Year's Pilgrimage to Myohoji Temple in Horinouchi (Horinouchi Myohoji eho mairi no zu)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

medium: Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych (center right sheet: 1925.3190)


title: Party of falconers near river

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; right and center sheets of oban triptych


title: Monkey bridge

creator: Katsushika Taito II

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, harimaze


title: Clear autumn sky over a mountain temple, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei


title: Crossing the Yellow River, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"


title: Autumn Maples at Takinogawa River (Takinogawa momiji), from the album "The Eternal Waterfall (Tokiwa no taki)"

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album


title: Climbing a mountain in Liuzhou, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"


title: Takanawa Okido at the Shinagawa Station (Shinagawa-juku Takanawa Okido), from the series "Eastern Capital (Toto)"

creator: Shotei Hokuju


title: The Mask Carver

creator: Katsushika Hokumei

date: Early 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Shirabyoshi Dancer in Asazuma Boat (Asazuma-bune), from an untitled series of landscapes

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)


title: Snow on the Sumida River

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: early 1830s


title: Woman and two boys gathering abalone, from the series "The Tosa Diary (Tosa nikki)"

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Monkey performing Sanbaso dance


title: No. 2 (Sono ni), from the triptych "Three Musical Instruments (Sankyoku)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of shikishiban triptych (right sheet: 1928.1166), surimono


title: Courtesan and Kamuro Strolling at the Entrance Gate of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarters


title: Hair Ornaments

creator: Kikugawa Eishin (Hidenobu)


title: No. 1 (Sono ichi), from the triptych "Three Musical Instruments (Sankyoku)"

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of shikishiban triptych (center sheet: 1928.1165), surimono


title: The actor Ichikawa Dajuro VII and a woman watching boy write first calligraphy of the New Year

creator: Utagawa Kunisada


title: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Takamoto no kitsune and Segawa Kikunojo V as Izumi no Chieda-gitsune


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Hanagasa Dance in the Play Iromi-gusa Shiki no Somewake, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1781

creator: Katsukawa Shunjo

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: A parody of courtesans on display at the Ogiya (Ogiya mise yatsushi)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro Vl as Soga no Goro Tokimune (Rokudai-me Ichikawa Danjuro no Soga no Goro Tokimune)

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi rokkasen): Bishop Henjo

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Sword
Vengeance
Murder
Kabuki
Japanese
Actor (performing artists)
Men
Theater
Theatrical
Theatrical role
Wood block (printing blocks)
Wood engraving (process)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Printing
Essential


title: Bust Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Tanabe Bunzo in the play Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga (Blooming Iris: Soga Vendetta of the Bunroku Era), Performed at the Miyako Theater from the Fifth Day of the Fifth Month, 1794

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban; mica background


title: Lady Tamamushi

creator: Artist unknown

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Kamakura no Gongoro Kagemasa (?) in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1768 (?)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Courtesan Michinoku of the Tsutaya House with her Kamuro Midare and Shinobu, from the series "Kikkaku Hokufu"


title: Tying Thread, from the series “Women’s Handicrafts: Models of Dexterity" ("Fujin tewaza ayatsuri kagami")

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: Young Woman with a Caged Monkey (Calendar Print for New Year 1776)


title: Cranes at the Sea Shore

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Pausing to admire Mt. Fuji (parody of Ariwara no Narihira's journey to the east)


title: Ofuji, the Shop Girl of the Motoyanagiya, with a Customer


title: Young Women Playing Poem Cards

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e


title: Cooling Off in the Evening at Shijogawara

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: The Kagura Dance

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

medium: Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)


title: The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Katsura Kokingo Haruhisa

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych


title: Women Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych


title: Love in Rain, Snow and Hail (Ame yuki arare ni yosuru koi)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo lll as Soga no Juro Sukenari (Sandai-me Ichikawa Yaozo no Soga no Juro Sukenari)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e


title: The Salt Maidens, Murasame with Yukihira's Hat

date: Edo period, c. 1800

medium: Hanging scroll, Ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Silk (textile)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art
Print


title: The Salt Maidens, Matsukaze with Yukihira's Coat

creator: Chôbunsai Eishi

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Silk (textile)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art


title: Parody of the Letter-Reading Scene in Chushingura

creator: Isoda Koryusai

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: Parody of the Yugao Chapter of the Tale of Genji

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Ukishima Danjo (?) in the Play Shinasadame Soma no Mombi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1770 (?)


title: Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Ono Sadakurô in “Model for Kana Calligraphy: Treasury of the 47 Loyal Retainers” (“Kanadehon Chûshingura”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; bai aiban


title: Doing the Laundry by the Well Curb (Idobata no sentaku to araihari)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: Rokkasen (Six Immortal Poets)

creator: Angyusai Enshi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Yagenbori, from the series "Fashionable Sands of Edo (Fuzoku Edo sunago)"

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


title: Shinobazu Pond, from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Koto hakkei)"


title: Women watching fireworks at Sumida River


title: Act IX (Kudanme), from the series “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"


title: Chrysanthemum Boy

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Girl Reading Letter while Mother and Child Gaze at Sparrows

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Mother
Babie
Children
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Hairdresser, from the series "Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni ko)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Benzo I as Shuntokumaru

creator: Torii Kiyotsune

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: A Modern Version of Urashima Taro

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e


title: Returning Sails of the Bamboo Knives (Takenaga no kihan), from the series ”Eight Views of Maids' Utensils (Jochu tedogu hakkei)"

creator: Attributed to Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)


title: The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya, with Child Attendants Yoshino and Tatsuta

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Mosquito Net, from the series Model Young Women in Mist (Kasumi-ori musume hinagata) (Kaya)


title: The Brazier of Elegance and the Bell of Damnation (Fuga hibachi muken no kane)

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, beni-e


title: The parlor of a brothel in the pleasure quarters

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Pleasures of the Seasons

creator: Hishikawa Morohira

date: About 1700

medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Handscroll
Japan
Japanese
Season
Painting
Asian art


title: The actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshizu, wife of Tanabe Bunzo

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: Eleven Actors Celebrating the Festival of the Shrine of the Soga Brothers

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e, pentaptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Beauties Under a Maple Tree, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Admiring the wisteria at the Kameido Shrine


title: Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River


title: Matsuchi Hill after Snowfall


title: The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura (right), Onoe Matsusuke I as the Monk Sahei Bozu (center) and Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Prince's Servant Kusunoki Uraminosuke (left), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; three sheets of a four-sheet composition


title: Courtesans and Their Child Attendants under Blossoming Cherry Trees


title: Young Woman Hanging a Mosquito Net

medium: Color woodblock print; tanzaku


title: The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; triptych


title: Parody of a daimyo procession

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro

medium: Color woodblock print; 1 of 12 sheets (see 1928.391-402)


title: Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher

creator: Spanish

medium: Oil on canvas

country: Spain

subjects:
Oil on canva
Spain
Philosopher
World
Prayer
Mourning
Man
Globe
Crying
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Spanish
Oil painting (visual works)
European painting

credit_line: Gift in memory of Samuel Gans from his heirs


title: Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Oil on canva
Netherland
Philosopher
Man
Poverty
Globe
Humor
World
Spain
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Spanish
Oil painting (visual works)
European painting


title: At the Railway Station

creator: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)

medium: Oil on panel

country: Belgium

subjects:
Painting
Belgium
Travel
Woman
Transportation
Train
Train station
Sign
Jewelry
Hat
France
Dog
Chair
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Panel painting
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Wood (plant material)
Plant material
Panel (wood)
Paint
Organic material
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on panel
European painting

credit_line: A. A. Munger Collection


title: Portrait of a Lady of the Wentworth Family (Probably Jane Cheyne)

creator: Hans Eworth (Flemish, active England, 1545–73/74)

country: Flanders

subjects:
Oil on panel
Flander
Portraits
Portraits: female subject
Interior
Curtain
Coat of arms
Jewelry
Headdresse
Necklace
Dresse
Wealth
Luxury
Woman
Portraits: european subject
Oil paint (paint)
Panel painting
Flemish
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Oil painting
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Sixteenth century
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Kate S. Buckingham


title: Dante's Bark

creator: After Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

country: France

subjects:
Painting
France
Travel
Boatman
Boat
Citie
Death
French
Greek
Greek mythology
Men
Poetry
Smoke
Storm
Water
Wind
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Nineteenth century
Romantic
Oil on canva
European painting

credit_line: Potter Palmer Collection


title: Souvenir of Italy

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

subjects:
Painting
France
Century of progress
Animal
Cloud
Italy
Landscape
Man
Rural life
Sheep
Shepherd
Sky
Stream
Sun
Tree
Water
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
French
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painted enamel
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting


title: The Little Shepherdess

creator: Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)

subjects:
Painting
France
Rural life
Shepherd
Shadow
Staff
Tree
Animal
Sheep
Landscape
Cloud
Sky
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Barbizon school
Panel painting
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Wood (plant material)
Plant material
Panel (wood)
Paint
Organic material
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on panel
French
European painting


title: The Woodchopper

subjects:
Painting
France
Rural life
Wood
Tree
Man
Landscape
Labor
Axe
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Barbizon school
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Nineteenth century
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on canva
French
European painting


title: Woman's Head

creator: Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934)

medium: Oil on cardboard

subjects:
Painting
France
Woman
Chair
Interior
Portrait
Portraits: female subject
Window
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
French
Oil on cardboard
Paint
Cardboard
Painting (image making)
European painting


title: Street in Moret

creator: Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Landscape
Figure
People
Men
Women
Building
Citie
Wall
Fence
Leisure
Weather/season
Tree
Sky
Road
Path
Nature
Cloud
Impressionism
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting
Nineteenth century
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
French
European painting


title: Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman

creator: Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)

subjects:
Painting
Netherland
Landscapes
Building
Bushe
Cloud
Figure
Foliage
Forest
Horse
Horsemen
House
Man
Nature
Path
People
Road
Sky
Tree
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Dutch
Oil on canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection


title: Mrs. Francis Russell

creator: George Romney (English, 1734–1802)

country: England

subjects:
Oil on canva
England
Portraits: female subject
Portrait
Woman
Hat
Dresse
White (color)
Blue
Blue (color)
Rose (color)
Rose
Flower
Foliage
Landscape
Tree
Bushe
Wealth
Luxury
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting (coating)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
British
European painting


title: Descent of Cattle from the Pyrenees

creator: Emile van Marcke de Lummen (French, 1827–1890)

subjects:
Painting
France
Cows
Cattle
Man
Shepherd
Animal
Dog
Dogs
Landscape
Mountain
Foliage
Tree
Bushe
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on canva
French
European painting


title: Portrait of a Mother and Child

creator: Artist unknown (British, 18th century)

subjects:
Painting
England
Portraits
Mother
Parent
Dresse
Familie
Flower
Girl
Lace
Portraits: female subject
Woman with children
Children
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil on canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
British
Canva
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Friends of American Art collection


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, 1632–1693)

country: Holland

subjects:
Oil on canva
Holland
Portraits
Portraits: male subject
Interior
Hat
White (color)
Black (color)
Man
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Dutch
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting


title: Peasant Family at a Well

creator: Master of the Children's Caps (Le Maître aux Béguins; French, 17th century)

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Family
Women
Woman with children
Woman
Water
Tree
Sons
Poverty
Plate
Peasant
Men
Man
Hat
Girl
Food
Father
Familie
Donkey
Dogs
Dog
Dining
Daughter
Children
Building
Boys
Bowl
Basket
Animal
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
French
Oil painting (visual works)
European painting

credit_line: Robert A. Waller Fund


title: Flowers in a Vase

creator: Dutch

subjects:
Painting
Netherland
Flowers
Still life
Dutch
Flora
Floral
Leave
Peonie
Tulip
Vase
Panel (wood)
Panel painting
Oil on panel
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Oil paint (paint)
Organic material
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Vase of Flowers

creator: Jean Baptiste Belin I (Blin de Fontenay; French, 1653-1715)

date: Date unknown

subjects:
Painting
France
Flowers
Cloud
Foliage
Landscape
Tree
Vase
Oil paint (paint)
French
Oil on panel
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Panel painting
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Davis Dangler


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Flemish

subjects:
Painting
Flander
Portraits
Portraits: male subject
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Sixteenth century
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Flemish
Oil on panel
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Panel painting
European painting


title: Still Life with Eggs and a Leg of Mutton

creator: Artist unknown (French, active 18th century)

subjects:
Oil on canva
France
Century of progress
Cloth
Eggs
French
Meat
Pot
Still life
Vegetable
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: The Stickney Fund


title: Don Quixote and the Windmills

creator: Imitator of Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808–1879)

subjects:
Painting
France
Knight
Animal
Weapon
Shield
Landscape
Mountain
Windmill
Horse
Donkey
Men
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Panel (wood)
Panel painting
French
Oil on panel
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Oil paint (paint)
Organic material
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Nineteenth century
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Charles H. Worcester. Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collection


title: Time, Death and Judgment

creator: George Frederick Watts (English, 1817–1904)

subjects:
Oil on canva
England
Time
Death
Men
Woman
Cloud
Sky
Weapon
Sword
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
British
European painting

credit_line: Bequest of Charles L. Hutchinson


title: John Philip Kemble

creator: Martin Archer Shee (Irish, 1769–1850)

country: Ireland

subjects:
Painting
Ireland
Portrait
Portraits: male subject
Man
Book
Table
Black (color)
White (color)
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on canva
British
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Owen Goodman for Kenneth S. Goodman Theatre.


title: A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim

subjects:
Painting
England
Study
Violin
Studie
Portraits: male subject
Portrait
Performance
Musician
Musical instrument
Man
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
British
Oil on canva
Oil painting (visual works)
European painting


title: Fashionable Figures, with Two Women Holding Fans

creator: Artist unknown (British, active 18th century)

medium: Oil on plaster, mounted on aluminum honeycomb panel

subjects:
Oil on plaster
England
Women
Fans
Fashion
Figure
Interior
Man
Men
Social
Woman
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Metal
Oil painting (visual works)
British
Paint
Aluminum
Inorganic material
Plaster
Painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Plastering
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr.


title: Fashionable Figures, with a Man in Turkish Costume

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Oil on plaster
England
Fashion
Interior
Costume
Social
Figure
Woman
Man
Men
Women
Oil paint (paint)
Painting
Metal
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Aluminum
Inorganic material
Plaster
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Plastering
European painting


title: Still Life: Melon, Fish Jar

creator: Imitator of Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

subjects:
Fish
Oil on panel
Netherland
Still life
Food
Jar
Table
Nineteenth century
Painting
Oil paint (paint)
Panel painting
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Copying
Wood (plant material)
Plant material
Panel (wood)
Paint
Organic material
Oil painting (visual works)
European painting

credit_line: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection


title: James McNeill Whistler

creator: Walter Greaves (English, 1841–1930)

subjects:
Oil on canva
England
Portraits: male subject
Portrait
Water
Ship
Boat
Hat
Chair
Artist
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Nineteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Painting
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
British
European painting


title: Thomas Walker and Peter Monamy

creator: Gawen Hamilton (Scottish, 1697-1737)

country: Scotland

subjects:
Oil on canva
Scotland
Portraits: multiple subject
Artist
Frame
Interior
Man
Men
Paintbrushe
Painter
Painting
Portrait
Portraits: male subject
Rugs
Ship
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
British
Canva
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting


title: Entombment

creator: German; possibly Cologne

medium: Tempera on panel

country: Germany

subjects:
Painting
Germany
Burial
Christian subject
Christianity
Religious figure
Religious scene
Religious
Religion
Biblical
Death
Cross
Virgin mary
Jesus
Men
Women
Mourning
Century of progress
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Tempera
Panel painting
German
Paint
Organic material
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
Sixteenth century
European painting


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Circle of Adriaen Isenbrant  (Netherlandish, c. 1485–1551)

country: Bruges

subjects:
Oil on panel
Bruge
Century of progress
Babie
Bread
Children
Christian subject
Christianity
Food
Interior
Jesus
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Religious scene
Virgin and child/madonna and child
Virgin mary
Woman
World' fair
Chicago world' fair
Oil paint (paint)
Panel painting
Sixteenth century
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Organic material
Painting
Panel (wood)
Plant material
Wood (plant material)
Oil painting
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting