title: Flowering Plum Blossom 梅花竹柄团扇

creator: Dong Feng

medium: Fan; ink on silk, with bamboo-and-ivory handle


title: Swallows, Bamboo and Plum Blossoms 花鸟竹柄团扇

creator: Tan Huanzhang

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1912), 19th century

medium:
Fan; ink and colors on silk, with a bamboo
handle with ivory tip

country: China

subjects:
Fan
China
Flowers
Silk (textile)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ivory
Ink
Accessorie (object genre)
Asian art
Costume

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: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Lotus 荷花牙柄团扇

creator: Artist unknown

medium:
Fan; colors on silk, with lacquer rim and
ivory handle

subjects:
Fan
China
Silk (textile)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ivory
Ink
Accessorie (object genre)
Asian art
Costume


title: Mynah on a Branch 花鸟竹柄团扇

creator: Pan Hong

medium:
Fan; ink and colors on silk, with bamboo handle
and ivory tip


title: Bell with Archaistic Motifs

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), mid–17th century

medium: Dehua ware (blanc de chine); porcelain with underglaze mold-impressed decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic
Sculpture

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Rectangular Pillow with Quatrefoil Medallion

date: Tang dynasty (618–907), first half of 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes

subjects:
Earthenware
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Rose Movius Palmer


title: Lion-Shaped Pillow

date: Probably Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty  (1115–1234) , 11th/13th Century

medium: Cizhou-type ware; gray stoneware, slip-coated with molded and carved decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman in memory of Gladys Wolfson Herzman


title: Fish-Shaped Oil Lamp

date: Tang dynasty (618–906), first half of 8th century

medium: Slip-coated earthenware with three color (sancai) lead glazes

subjects:
Fish
Earthenware
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Figure of Daoist God Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior)

date: Ming (1368–1644) or Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 15th/18th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware

country: Junyao

subjects:
Porcelain
Junyao
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Miniature Box on a Stand (Mingqi)

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Earthenware with green glaze and underglaze molded and incised decoration

subjects:
Earthenware
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Sculpture


title: Tantric Female Enlightened Being (Vajrayogini) Holding a Skull Cup

creator: Tibet

date: 18th century

medium: Silver, gilt silver, and gilt copper alloy

country: Tibet

subjects:
Sculpture
Tibet
Skeletons & bones
Silver
Himalayan
Metal
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Yaozhou style glazed dish

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng reign mark and period (1723–1735)

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of the Friends of China through Mrs. Arthur Ryerson


title: Vase with Figures, Landscape, and Auspicious Symbols

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

subjects:
Vase
China
Landscapes
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ralph M. Chait


title: Vase with Leaf Scroll Handles and Floral Spray Design

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

medium: Porcelain with clair de lune glaze

subjects:
Vase
China
Flowers
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Tripod Incense Holder with Floral Design

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Flowers
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Decorative arts


title: Globular Vase with Tall Neck

subjects:
Vase
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Jar with Peacocks, Garden Rock, and Foliage

date: Ming dynasty, mark and period of Jiajing (1522–66)

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Incense Burner with Animal Handles

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th –12th century

medium: Guan ware; celadon-glazed stoneware

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Bowl

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th/13th century

medium: Northern black ware; Cizhou type; glazed stoneware with mottled markings in overglaze iron oxide

subjects:
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Bowl with Boy and Swimming Fish

date: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) or Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve

subjects:
Fish
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Pear-Shaped Vase

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th/19th century

medium: Celadon-glazed porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun


title: Lobed Dish

creator: China, Henan Province

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Stoneware with brown glaze

country: Henan

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Henan
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Bowl

subjects:
Bowl
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Bulbous-Shaped Vase and Dragon Design


title: Gu-Shaped (Archaic Bronze Vessel) Vase

subjects:
Vase
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Duck-Shaped Ewer

creator: China, type found in the Philippines

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 15th century

medium: Slip-coated stoneware painted in underglaze blue

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Porcelain
Asian art
Ceramic
Sculpture

credit_line: Alsdorf Foundation Purchased with funds provided by


title: "Ruby-Back" Dish with Phoenix

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century

medium: Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamel decoration

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
China
Roses
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Bulbous-Shaped Vase


title: Bulbous Vase with Stylized Vines

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng period (1723–35)


title: Dish with Scholar in Garden

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng period (1723–1735)

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamel

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Bowl with Floral and Leaf Sprays

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze carved decoration

subjects:
Bowl
China
Flowers
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Broad Pear-shaped  Jar with Everted Mouth Rim

date: Tang dynasty (618–906)

medium: Marbled earthenware with amber glaze

subjects:
Earthenware
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Estate of Henry C. Schwab


title: Fluted Bowl

date: Song dynasty (960–1279) or later


title: Bottle-Shaped Vase


title: Ewer with Abstract Swirls and Radiating Strokes

date: Tang dynasty (618–907), 9th century

medium: Tongguan (Changsha) ware; stoneware with underglaze painting in copper green

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Dr. K. C. Kim


title: Cylindrical Jar with Figures in a Landscape

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Landscapes
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Janis H. Palmer


title: Covered Bowl in the "Hindustani Style"

creator: China or India

date: Late 18th or 19th century

medium: Jade

subjects:
Bowl
China
Jade
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Asian art
Decorative arts
Islamic (culture or style)


title: Dishes Inlaid with Images of Ancient Bronzes

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Lacquer with inlay

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Lacquer
Chinese (culture or style)
Lacquerware
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Philip Pinsof


title: Openwork Braizer or Incense Stick Holder

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), late 14th/15th century

medium: Longquan ware; celadon-glazed stoneware with carved decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman


title: Ewer with Crocodile (Makara) Spout

creator: Eastern Tibet

date: 16th century

medium: Brass with copper bands over bamboo core

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
Tibet
Ships & the sea
Brass (alloy)
Himalayan
Copper
Bamboo
Vessel
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Alsdorf Foundation, Asian Benefit, Mary Diamond, Edward Douglas, Felix and Helen Juda Foundation; Margaret Gentles and Kemp Benevolent funds; Margrette Dornbusch, and Frederick Gookin endowments; through prior acquisitions of Katharine Kuh


title: Tri-Lobed Dish with Butterfly

date: Liao dynasty (907–1125), 12th century

medium: Ding ware; glazed porcelain

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Butterflies & moths
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Teacup or Offering Bowl Container with "Wheel of Joy" Motif

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Brass, copper, nickel, and zinc alloy

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Tibet
Ships & the sea
Brass (alloy)
Himalayan
Nickel
Copper
Zinc alloy
Metalwork
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Margaret Gentles Fund


title: Dish with Sketchy Floral Scrolls

medium: Qingbai ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Small Double-Gourd Bottle

date: Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

medium: Stoneware with underglaze incised decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Dish with Lobed Cavetto and Foliate Rim

date: Song dynasty (960–1279), 11th/12th century

medium: Qingbai ware; glazed porcelain

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Bracket-Lobed Dish

medium: Jun ware; glazed stoneware

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Tripod Incense Burner (Censer)

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), c. 12th/13th century

medium: Jun ware; stoneware


title: Dish with Images of Antiquities

date: late Ming (1368–1644) or early Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 17th century

medium: Lacquer inlaid with abalone shell (mother of pearl) and gold and silver foil

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Shells & molluscs
Ships & the sea
Lacquer
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Stem Bowl

date: Jin (1115–1234) or Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), 13th/14th century

medium: Huozhou ware; glazed stoneware

subjects:
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Dish with Images of Ancient Bronzes

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Lacquer
Chinese (culture or style)
Decorative arts


title: Dish with Images of Ancient Bronzes

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Lacquer
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Four-Tiered Square Box and Cover

date: Ming dynasty (1368-1644), 16th century

medium: Carved cinnabar lacquer and black lacquer (interior)

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Weston Family Foundation


title: Seal Paste Box

date: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 15th century

medium: Carved lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China Seal

credit_line: Gift of Roger L. Weston


title: Ewer Made for the Indian Market

creator: Guangzhou, China

date: 18th century

medium: Enamelled copper

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment Fund


title: Circular Shard

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Jun ware; stoneware with light blue and purple glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Rectangular Shard


title: Stove with Figures and Geometric Designs

date: Eastern Han dynasty (A.D. 25–220)

medium: Earthenware with lead green glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Earthenware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howell H. Howard


title: Deer

date: Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220CE)

medium: Stone

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
China
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Josephine P. Albright, in memory of Alice Higinbotham Patterson


title: Deer

date: Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE)


title: Medicine Vessel with Two Figures

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists and obo (ritual specialist)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass, hide, feathers, sacrifcial materials

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-container
Edo people
Ships & the sea

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Vase

medium: Peking glass

subjects: Glass China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Weber, 1981


title: Rank Badge with Four-Clawed Dragon

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3275

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 12 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Dressing jacket

medium: linen

country: British

credit_line: Isabel Shults Fund, 1988


title: Bit Boss

medium: Copper alloy

country: possibly French

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Possibly french

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Sampler

date: first half 19th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vishnu on Garuda Slaying a Demon

creator: Seu Family

date: mid-18th century

medium: Ink and wash on paper

country: India (Pahari Hills, Guler)

subjects:
Painting
India (pahari hills, guler)

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Sugar Bowl

creator: Lenox, Incorporated

medium: White bone porcelain

country: American

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Kenneth C. Heath, in memory of Marjorie L. Sloan, and Reginald J. and Kenneth C. Heath, 1989


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Wall painting fragment

date: 1st century CE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Roman

credit_line: Gift of Miss A. Rivier, 1930


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of flour, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 549 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Piece

credit_line: Sage Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Penthesilean


title: Cupid carves a wooden bow with a file, with his back turned toward Venus, from "Sport of Love" (Scherzi d'amore)

creator: Odoardo Fialetti

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Key

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1954


title: Jeanne

creator: Morton Schamberg

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Loeb Whitehill, 1973


title: Fragment

medium: Jadeite

country: Myanmar (Burma)

subjects:
Jade
Myanmar (burma)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Jar of Pepi I

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923


title: Custard Cup

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan W. Carrick, 1967


title: Delacroix's palette

creator: Eugène Delacroix

date: mid 19th century

medium: Wood / oil on board

subjects: Writing and painting implement and supplie

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, 2024


title: The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room

creator: Seymour Joseph Guy

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William E. Dodge, by exchange, and Lila Acheson  Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Praying Monk

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Mon. H. Delamarre, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Square Bottle

medium: Pottery decorated in blue under the glaze (Satsuma ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Vase with boy riding an ox

medium: Soft paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: England (Igirisukoku)

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 2nd month, 1865

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: The Gaze

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Glass

country: North French

subjects:
Glass-stained
North french

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Rear Admiral, France, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Flounce

medium: Machine net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Glass head pendant

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

country: Carthaginian or Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Carthaginian or eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Umbel Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: [Unknown Subject]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Caster

creator: Zachariah Brigden

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Suzanne dePeyster and Valerie dePeyster, 1997


title: Brown squirrel with collar and chain

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945


title: Nuremberg Chronicle

creator: Michael Wolgemut and Workshop

medium: Woodcut and letterpress in black, with brush and watercolor, pen and ink on ivory laid paper, in modern full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on raised bands, with blind tooled lines in frame pattern, blind tooling and hand-lettered title on the spine, and hand-sewn linen headbands

country: Nuremberg

subjects:
Ornament & design
Book
Nuremberg
Paper (fiber product)

credit_line: Gift of Sarah E. Raymond Fitzwilliam


title: Divine Proportion

creator: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)

date: Venice: Paganinus de Paganinus, 1509

medium: Letterpress and woodcut in black with hand lettering in red ink, on ivory laid paper; binding in full buckram bookcloth

country: Venice

credit_line: Gift of Mr. F.A. Wells


title: De Architectura

creator: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman, active first century BCE)

date: Venice, Italy: Ioannis de Tridino, also known as Tacuino, 1511

medium: Letterpress and woodcut in black on ivory laid paper; four-piece decorative woodcut title border with scrolling foliage and dolphin motifs; full alum-tawed ornamental leather binding

country: Italy

subjects:
Ornament & design
Italy

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Osada no Taro Kagemune (in Reality Hatcho Tsubute no Kiheiji), in the Guise of a Lamplighter of Gion Shrine, in Act Three from Part One of the Play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji (Snow-Covered Bamboo: Genji in Long Sleeves), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1785

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Vision of Kumagai Renshobo

creator: Attributed to Sugimura Jihei

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


title: Flirtation under the Cherry Tree

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

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


title: Flower-Viewing Party with Crest-Bearing Curtain, from the series "Flower Viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)"

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e

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


title: Reading a Letter

creator: Furuyama Moroshige

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


title: On the Yoshida Highway

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


title: The Full Moon

creator: Artist unknown

date: 18th century

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


title: The Thirteen Buddhas

creator: Japanese

date: 16th century

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Korean Embassy Parade

creator: Attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock prints; makimono-e


title: Tanabata Dance

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

date: Woodblock carved 1698, printed about 1915

medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e


title: The Actor Sanjo Kantaro II as Oshichi in the play "Nanakusa Fukki Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1718

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


title: The Actor Bando Matakuro I

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I

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


title: The Actor Shinomiya Heihachi I


title: The Actors Matsumoto Hyozo as a woman holding an umbrella and Nakamura Shichisaburo I as a young boy


title: The Actor Sawamura Kodenji I


title: The Actor Hanaoka Miyako


title: The Actor Shinomiya Heihachi


title: The Actors Fujita Hananojo and Ichikawa Danjuro II


title: The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho (?)

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


title: Reading a Letter in Front of a Screen, from an untitled series of 12 prints


title: A Professional Baffoon, from a untitled series of 12 prints

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


title: The Actor Tamazawa Saijiro in an unidentified role

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro


title: The Actor Nakamura Takesaburo I in a female role


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718


title: Sakata Kintoki Wrestling with a Tengu

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active c. 1704–18)


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I and Tamazawa Rinya

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I


title: The Actor Tsutsui Kichijuro

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


title: Actor as a Standing Beauty

date: About 1715

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


title: Sparrowhawk (Konori taka)

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


title: Standing Courtesan

creator: Okumura Masanobu


title: Young Woman Reading Tanzaku Tied to a Cherry Tree

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

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

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


title: A Courtesan and her Attendant

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; naga-oban


title: Flower Wagon

creator: Hanegawa Chincho (Japanese, c.1679 -1754)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban

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


title: The Actor Sanjo Kantaro holding a pipe

creator: Artist Unknown


title: Falcon Perched on a Tree

creator: Attributed to Isoda Koryusai

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; kakemono-e, shomen-ban


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku I as a peddler of tooth-blackening dye

creator: Hanekawa Wagen


title: The Actors Ichimura Takenojo IV and Ogino Isaburo I as firewood peddlers in the play "Niwatori Oshu Genji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1726


title: The Actor Yamashita Kosasaburo

creator: Katsukawa Terushige


title: Oshichi Carrying a Blossoming Cherry Branch

creator: Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I and Dekijima Daisuke II

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Fujiwara no Kanemichi in the play "Otomo no Matori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1726

creator: Tsunekawa Shigenobu


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718


title: The Actors Kameya Jujiro I as Soga no Juro and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oiso no Tora in the play ”Hatsu Hikage Maizuru Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1737


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon VIII

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


title: The Actor Ichimura Kamezo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Hatsugoyomi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1745 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actors Otani Oniji I as Soga no Goro and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as the sister of Yoshinaka in the play "Fuji no Yuki Mitsugi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1746


title: The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Kanto Koroku and Arashi Tominosuke I as Hayasaki in the play "Hokazo Yunzei Hachinoki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1748


title: The Actors Takinaka Hidematsu I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan and Segawa Kikunojo I as Terute no Mae in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Minamoto no Yorimasa and Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747


title: The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Urashima Taro and Takinaka Hidematsu I as Kanemoto Gozen in the play "Ichi no Tomi Seiwa Nendaiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1746


title: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo II as Mushanosuke, Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo, and Matsushima Kichisaburo as Ochiyo's spirit in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744


title: The Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747


title: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo I as Araki Shozaemon and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Daidoji Tahatanosuke in the play "Chigozakura Futabajikki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the tenth month, 1746


title: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo II as Musashibo Benkei, Sakata Shintaro (?) as Soga no Goro, and Takigawa Kinya (?) as Soga no Juro in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Taira no Koremochi and Arashi Koroku as Makomo no Mae in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji and Segawa Kikujiro I as Hitachi Kohagi in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ike no Shoji in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth Month, 1747

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


title: The Actors Fujikawa Heikuro as Masamune and Matsushima Kichisaburo as Rai Kunitsugu in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the sixth month, 1746


title: The Actor Yoshizawa Ayame II as Hotoke Gozen in the play "Onna Monji Heike Monogatari," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1748


title: The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I (right), Sanogawa Ichimatsu I (center), and Sanogowa Senzo (left), from the triptych "Negura sanpukutsui"

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


title: The Actors Yamamoto Iwanojo as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Fuwa Bansaku in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748


title: The Actor Sanjo Kantaro II as a madwoman in the play "Kabuto Goban Tadanobu," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1728 (?)


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748


title: Fragment of a Royal Head, Probably Apries

medium: Black diorite

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994


title: Lace

medium: linen

country: Flemish

credit_line: Gift of Anonymous, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Knife Coin

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Marrow Spoon

medium: Silver


title: Terracotta female head

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Plate 35: The Batavians Become Afraid and Begin Peace Talks, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924


title: Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Needlecase

medium: Canvas and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard E. Opdycke, 1928


title: [Postmortem]

creator: Alphonse Le Blondel

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999


title: Mace Head

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silver (cast)

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: Boatman in Rocky Cove

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Glass bowl

date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Beaker

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Seated Figure Bottle

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Chimú

subjects: Chimú Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Judith Riklis, 1983


title: Vase (one of a pair)

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Key Handle in the Form of a Horse’s Head

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Vessel Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Alabaster

subjects:
Lapidary work-alabaster
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: St. Andrews

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Wall light (one of a pair)

creator: Chantilly

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Accessory set

medium: Cotton

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Sterling Peters, 1925


title: Landscape with distant buildings (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 23 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray and yellow wash or watercolor

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Smallsword

date: hallmarked for 1755–56

medium: Silver, gold, wood, steel

country: French, Strasbourg

subjects:
Sword
French, strasbourg

credit_line: Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926


title: Portrait of a Member and Record of the Wang Family

medium: Handscroll; calligraphy, ink on paper; portrait, ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Portraits


title: Card Number 155, Fanny Rice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: C’est dans un de ces transports d’attendrissement que je dis à M. de Luxembourg en l’embrassant (I said this to M. de Luxembourg as I embraced him during a moment of tenderness), from J. J. Rousseau's "Confessions"

creator: Charles Abraham Chasselat

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Etching


title: Papyrus

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic


title: Southern Landscape with Resting Wayfarers at a River

creator: Ferdinand Kobell

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray ink

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008


title: Landscape with Mountains (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Brown glass oval set in a gilt bronze ring

medium: Glass, brown

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, weft loop weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Imitation Green-Splashed Samarra Ware

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in black with splashes of green on opaque white (tin) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: The Flagellation

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Gold scaraboid ring

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold, gem

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gems
Cypriot
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Hanjo in the play "Tsumagoi Sumidagawa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1733

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

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

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Senjiro disguised as Kichisaburo and Nakamura Tomijuro I as Oshichi in the joruri "Midaregami Yoru no Amigasa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1742


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku I as a peddler of tooth-blackening dye


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Kenkaya Gorouemon and Segawa Kikunojo I as Osen in the play "Hatsugoyomi Akinai Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1732


title: The Actor Tomizawa Montaro I as Miyako no Mae in the play "Izu Genji Horai Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1736


title: The Actor Ogino Isaburo I in two roles, Tora and Soga no Juro, in the play "Juhakko Imayo Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1734


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo II as Shinozuka Goro in the play "Funayosooi Mitsugi Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1743


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo II as Goto Saemon in the play "Tokaido Yukumi Guruma," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1736


title: The Actor Ichimura Takenojo IV as Kanaya Kingoro in the play "Ima wa Mukashi Omokage Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1737

medium: Hand-colored woodblcok print; right sheet of hosoban diptych, urushi-e


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Utabikuni in the play "Fuji Miru Sato Sakae Soga" (?), performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1742


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Furukoori Shinzaemon disguised as Shimada Kanzaemon in the play "Ima wa Mukashi Omokage Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1737

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


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Tokiwa in the play "Tonozukuri Genji Junidan," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1744


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo II casting a curse at the hour of the ox


title: The Bad Tiger Cub

creator: Artist Unknown

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


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Onio Shinzaemon and Onoe Kikugoro I as the courtesan Usugumo in the play "Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1744

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Advertisement of the drama "Haru no Akebono Kuruwa Soga," at the Ichimura Theatre

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print


title: The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as Ushiwakamaru, Segawa Kikunojo I as Oroku, and Otani Oniji I as Matano Goro in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744


title: The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as the pageboy Umezaburo and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oroku in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kosoke and Arashi Tominosuke I as Okiku

date: mid–18th century


title: The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Utagawa Shirogoro


title: The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as Oiso no Tora and Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Soga no Juro in the play "Haru wa Akebono Kuruwa Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1743


title: Susano-o no Mikoto Killing the Eight-headed Dragon

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro and Ikushima Daikichi II as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748


title: The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Yosaku and Arashi Tominosuke I as Koman


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as the pageboy Kichisaburo in the play "Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1744


title: The Actors Nakamura Kiyosaburo I as Okiku and Ichimura Kamezo I as Kosuke in the play "Hiyoku no Kagamon," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the seventh month, 1751


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747


title: The Actors Arashi Koroku I as Makomo no Mae and Ichikawa Uzaemon VIII as Taira no Koremochi in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747


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

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga


title: In the Style of a Page (Kosho fu), Center Sheet of Triptych (Sanpukutsui chu)


title: Beauty and Young Man Riding an Ox (parody of Kyoyu and Sobu?)


title: The Portrait of Actors at the Ogura Cottage

date: 18th century

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

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


title: Set of Three, Love Birds in Three Kinds of Music (Sampukutsui hiyoku no san kyoku)

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

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


title: The Actors Otani Ryuzaemon II as Kajiwara Genta and Arashi Tominosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Tamagushi Yosooi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1747


title: The Sumiyoshi Dance


title: Set of Three Hanging Scrolls, Day Dream Plays (Kakemono sampukutsui utsusu no asobi)


title: The Actor Yamamura Ichitaro as Oichi in the play "Totsusaka-no-jo Tsuru no Sugomori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1721

creator: Torii Kiyotomo


title: A Peddler of Colored Cloth (fukusa)


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II

creator: Torii Kiyoshige


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Soga no Juro


title: A Modern Version of Shosho visiting Komachi (Furyu Shosho kayoi Komachi)

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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


title: The Crossing of the Tanabata Boat (Tanabata no towataru fune)

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e

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


title: Young Woman Dressing

creator: Yamamoto Yoshinobu


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Ike no Shoji in the play "Oguri Choseiden," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1725


title: The Actor Tomizawa Montaro I as Miyako no Mae in the play "Izu Genji Horai Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1736


title: Lion and Peonies


title: A Monkey Trainer and His Monkey


title: The Actors Sanjo Kantaro (right) and Fujimura Handayu (left) as musicians playing under wisteria


title: Rooster Perched on Mortar


title: The Actors Sanjo Kantaro II as Osome and Ichikawa Monnosuke as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu Tamoto no Shiro Shibori," performed at the Morita theater, 1720


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Osome and Sodesaki Kikutaro as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu Shinju," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the sixth month, 1731


title: Parody of Palace Attendants Burning Maple Leaves to Heat Sake from "The Tale of Heike"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: Boys Masquerading as Chinese

medium: Woodblock print; oban benizuri-e with embossing


title: The Autumn Shower, from "Sharing an Umbrella: A Set of Three (Aigasa sanpukutsui)"

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


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Onatsu and Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Seijuro in the play "Uno Hana Nisei no Aikago," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fourth month, 1747


title: Cooling off at Ryogoku: A Set of Three (Ryogoku suzumi sanpukutsui)

medium: Woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, sumizuri-e


title: Courtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from "Courtesans of the Three Capitals: A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui)"


title: Courtesans Drawn in Osaka Style (Osaka kakiwake), from "Courtesans of the Three Capitals - A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui)"

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


title: Osome and Hisamatsu

creator: Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actor Sawamura Kamesaburo as Nagoya Kosanza in the play "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1731

creator: Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu

subjects:
Woodcut
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Painting
Asian art
Print


title: The Actor Tsutsui Kichijuro


title: The Actor Arashi Wakano as a woman standing beneath a cherry tree

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


title: The Actor Hayakawa Hatsuse as a Flower Vendor

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


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku as a woman walking in the snow

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


title: Young Woman Holding an Umbrella

creator: Torii Kiyohiro


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo I as Soga no Goro


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Omi no Okane in the play "Kongen Okuni Kabuki" performed at the Nakamura Theater in the seventh month, 1754


title: The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku II and Segawa Kikunojo II


title: Sugoroku Players


title: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo I as Miura Osuke, Ichikawa Danjuro lV as Okazaki Akushiro, and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Kato Arajiro in the play "Miura no Osuke Bumon no Kotobuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu (right), Nakamura Tomijuro (center), and Nakamura Kumetaro (left), from A Comparison - Set of Three (Nazorae Sanpukutsui)


title: Three Young Dreamers


title: Beauty of Ibarakiya Pulling at a Man's Umbrella - a Parody of the Legend of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II, Ichikawa Komazo II, and Arashi Otohachi I in the play "Fude Hajime Soga no Tamazusa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1768

creator: Torii Kiyotsune


title: The Actors Segawa Kichiji II as Okichi, Bando Hikosaburo II as Shuntokumaru, and Onoe Kikugoro I as Sagizaka Bannai in the play "Yura Sengen Tsuki no Minato," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1754


title: A Flower Vendor

creator: Nishimura Shigenobu (Japanese, active c. 1723-47)

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Usami no Saburo in the play "Yukun Yoroi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1736

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyomasu II

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


title: The Actor Anegawa Chiyosaburo from Kyoto

creator: Nishimura Shigenobu


title: The Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Oshichi and Sanjo Kantaro II as Kichisaburo in the play "Shochikubai Kongen Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1732


title: Beauty Carrying a Wedding Decoration

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


title: Beauty Carrying a Wedding Decoration

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


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I looking at a guidebook to the pleasure quarters

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I and Segawa Kikunojo I as lovers under an umbrella


title: The Fourth Month (Shigatsu), from an untitled series of twelve months

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


title: The Hobby Horse Dance (harugoma odori)


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II (formerly Utagawa Shirogoro) as Matsuomaru and Azumo Tozo I as Sakuramaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater, 1750


title: The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu (right), Nakamura Kiyosaburo (center right), Sanogawa Senzo (center left), and Nakamura Kumetaro (left)


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I

medium: Color woodblock print; narrow oban, benizuri-e

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


title: Young Men of Fashion - A Set of Three (Wakashu sanpukutsui)

date: early 1750s

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


title: The Shop of Sanogawa Ichimatsu

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


title: Puppeteers - A Set of Three (Ayatsuri sanpukutsui)


title: Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku - A Set of Three (Ryogoku suzumi sanpukutsui)


title: Young Man on a Horse

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Sharing an Umbrella - A Set of Three (Aigasa sanpukutsui)


title: Jurojin, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Adesugata Shichifukujin)"

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Modern parody of the well-curb episode from "Tales of Ise"

medium: Color woodblock print; koban, benizuri-e


title: Wandering minstrels dressed as nuns (utabikuni)

creator: Kondo Katsunobu


title: Matsukaze, from "Album of Courtesans (Keisei ehon)"

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Woodblock print; single-page illustration from book, sumizuri-e


title: Sparrowhawk and Macaw (Konori taka, inko)

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyomasu I

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


title: Eagle and Monkey

creator: Attributed to Nishimura Shigenaga


title: Silver Pheasant (Hakkan)


title: Hollyhocks and Peacocks (Aoi ni kujaku)

date: early 1730s


title: Bamboo and Tiger

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


title: Mandarin Ducks, from the series "Kashinsai"

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga


title: Golden Pheasant (Kinkeicho)


title: A Hawk on a Kiri Tree


title: The Actor Segawa Yujiro I as Oshichi in the play "Edo no Haru Meisho Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1773

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Ohatsu in the play "Sogazaki Shinju," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the fourth month, 1719


title: The Actor Segawa Senjo (Kikunojo III) as the wife of Amakawaya Gihei in the play "Kanadehon Chushingura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the fifth month, 1776


title: The Actor Arashi Sankatsu as Kanamuraya Osan in the play "Soga Hiiki Nihon Sakura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1762


title: The Actor Otani Oniji II as Asahina Saburo in the play "Hatachiyama Horai Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1759

creator: Torii Kiyosato


title: The Maple Festival (Momiji no ga) from chapter 7 of The Tale of Genji

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

date: early 1760s

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e


title: Autumn Moon over Sumida River (Sumida aki zuki), from the series "Eight Views of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hakkei)"


title: Night Rain at a Shrine


title: Towing boats against the current


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Sukeroku in the play "Choseiden Fudan-zakura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the fourth month, 1756


title: Taking a Walk on New Year's Day

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji II as Kawazu Saburo and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Matano Goro in the play "Kashiwa ga Toge Kichirei no Sumo," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1755


title: Young Lady and Matron, from "Girls of Fukagawa - A Triptych (Fukagawa musume sanpukutsui)"


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Ohatsu and Ichikawa Yaozo II as her lover Tokubei in the play "Yoni Osaka Nitsui no Meoto," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the second month, 1767


title: The Actor Ichikawa Masuzo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Tokitsukaze Irifune Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1758


title: The Actors Bando Aizo as the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho and Ichikawa Raizo I as Soga no Goro in the play "Satsuki Matsu Unohana Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the fourth month, 1766


title: The Actors Ichikawa Raizo I as a peddler of tea whisks and Nakamura Matsue I as Yuya Gozen in the play "Daijobu Takadate Jikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1763


title: The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Sakura Hime and Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Priest Seigen in the play "Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami," performed at the Namakumura Theater in the first month, 1773


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Ishi no Mae in the play "Hoshi Aikotoba Higashiyama no Sakae," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1763


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro III as Oroku and Bando Hikosaburo II as Fujitaro in the play "Shomei Muken no Kane," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1767


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro in the play "Hatachiyama Horai Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1759


title: The Actor Nakamura Matsue as Oshichi in the play "Fujibumi Sakae Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the second month, 1763


title: The Actor Ichiyama Shichizo I as Terute Hime in the play "Shuen Soga Omugaeshi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1768


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I as Kawazu Saburo in the play "Kaido Ichi Izu no Harugoma," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1766


title: The Actor Bando Hikosaburo II as Ono no Yorikaze in the play "Ono no Tofu Aoyagi Suzuri," performed at the Morita Theater in the eighth month, 1764


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Miwa and Ichimura Kamezo I as Hikoso in the play "Ume Momiji Date no Okido," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1760


title: The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Nagoya Sanzaburo and Ichimura Kamezo II in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Tsuitachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1766


title: The Actors Sakakiyama Sangoro as the page boy Kichisaburo and Segawa Kikunojo II as Oshichi in the play "Hatsugai Wada no Sakamori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1759


title: The Actor Hanagawa Ichinojo as Akane Gozen in the play "Okunizome Shusse Butai," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1759


title: The Actor Kirishima Gizaemon as Murasaki Daijin in the play "Hatsu Akinai Omise Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1767


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Hata no Daizen Taketora in the play "Kisoeuta Sakae Komachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1762


title: A picnic under cherry trees


title: The Soga Festival

medium: Color woodblock print; benizuri-e


title: Beauties of the Three Capitals: Shimabara in Kyoto (right), Yoshiwara in Edo (center), and Shinmachi in Osaka (left)

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


title: Three couples sharing umbrellas

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


title: Evening Bell of Dojoji (Dojoji no bansho), no. 1 from the series "Eight Views of Children (Osana hakkei)"


title: The Harugoma Dance

medium: Color woodblock print; o-oban yoko-e, benizuri-e


title: Entertainers


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II

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


title: New Year's entertainers before standing screen of tiger


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Kudo Suketsune in the play "Hatsugai Wada no Sakamori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1759


title: The Actor Arashi Hinaji as the maiko Uriuno in the play "Ume ya Suisen Izu no Irifune," performed at the Morita Theater in the eleventh month, 1763


title: The Poet Ariwara no Narihira on the bank of the Sumida River


title: Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook


title: The Actors Ichikawa Komazo I (L) and Nakamura Matsue I (R)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


medium: Woodblock print; chuban, keyblock proof impression


title: Two Actors Catching Fireflies

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyomitsu I


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kamaya Buhei in the play "Fude Hajime Soga no Tamazusa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1768


title: The Actor Ichimura Kamezo I as Tachibanaya Hikoso in the play "Ume Momiji Date no Okido," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the courtesan Umegae in the play "Hiragana Seisuiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1764


title: A Flower Vendor


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Yamabuki, the sister of Hata Rokurozaemon, in the play "Shikai Nami Yawaragi Taiheiki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1763


title: Sano Crossing at Miwagasaki (Miwagasaki Sano no watari)


title: Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki yau), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)"


title: Empress Jito (Jito Tenno), from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"


title: Eight-Platform Bridge (Yatsuhashi), from the "Tale of Ise (Ise Monogatari)"


title: Poem by Sojo Henjo, from the series "Six Famous Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Poem by Kisen Hoshi, from the series "Six Famous Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Poem by Otomo no Kuronushi, from the series "Six Famous Poets (Rokkasen)"


title: Fulling Cloth


title: Parody of Kawachi-goe from "Tales of Ise"

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of chuban diptych (left sheet: 1925.2025)


title: Gathering Lotus Flowers

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono


title: A water vendor


title: Giving Daruma a Smoke


title: Gathering Lotus Flowers


title: By the Stream

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2032)


title: The Fan Peddler


title: By the Stream

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of chuban diptych (left sheet: 1925.2031)


title: Gathering Bamboo Shoots


title: Casting a curse at the hour of the ox (ushi no koku mairi)


title: Young Women Playing Cat's Cradle


title: Evening Snow on a Floss Shaper (Nurioke no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: Ono no Komachi Washing the Book


title: Evening Glow of a Lamp (Andon no sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: Descending Geese of the Koto Bridges (Kotoji no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: Autumn Moon in the Mirror (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: The Evening Bell of the Clock (Tokei no bansho), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: The Poetess Ono no Komachi


title: Chrysanthemums and the Rising Moon


title: Burning Autumn Maple Leaves


title: Snow on the Way Back from the Public Bath


title: Under a Peach Tree

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban diptych


title: The Kagura Dancer


title: Washing Cloth in a Stream


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


title: Gathering Spring Flowers


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


title: Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain (Amagoi), from the series "The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)"

date: c. early 1760s


title: Hanging a Painting (parody of the Third Princess)


title: Ono no Komachi by the Waterfall (Shimizu), from the series The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)


title: Visiting (Kayoi), from the series "The Seven Fashionable Aspects of Komachi (Furyu yatsushi nana Komachi)"


title: Daruma looking at his reflection


title: The Wrestling Match (parody of Ushikawamaru and Benkei)


title: Courtesan and Two Attendants Playing with a Dog


title: A Young Woman Returning a Ball to a Young Man


title: Young Man Playing the Flute Beside a Fence


title: Young Man Holding Umbrella Beside a Fence


title: Woman Washing Her Hands before Entering a Shrine


title: The Third Princess and Her Pet Cat


title: Young Man Riding a Giant Tortoise (parody of Urashima Taro)


title: Ushiwakamaru and Benkei fighting on Gojo Bridge


title: Fishing in Shallow Water


title: A Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Riverside Teahouse Iseya


title: The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from "Tales of Ise")


title: A Windy Day


title: Woman in a Bathhouse

medium: Color woodblock print; cut from chuban sheet


title: Lovers Playing the Same Shamisen (parody of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei)


title: The Sleeping Tea-Boy (parody of Hokaso)


title: Beauty Teasing a Young Man Fshing


title: Lovers Dressing Beside a Window


title: Couple Reading a Letter


title: Young Woman Seated on a White Elephant (parody of the Bodhisattva Fugen)


title: Courtier and Lady


title: Courtesan and Her Sleepy Attendant


title: Courtesan Watching Her Attendants Playing with a Ball


title: Girl Boarding a Boat


title: Giving a Light by the Garyubai Plum Tree


title: Playing Daimyo's Procession


title: Two Women Strugging for a Fan


title: The Hobby Horse


title: Delaying the announcement of dawn


title: Tickling her foot


title: Two Beauties in a Boat


title: Two Women at the Waterside


title: Two Young Women Reading Books


title: A Young Male Actor on Parade in Autumn Rain


title: Making a Snow Dog


title: The Snow-Clogged Geta


title: Meeting on the River (parody of Hakurakuten)


title: Minamoto no Shigeyuki, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Watching a Cockfight at the Edge of the Veranda


title: Catching Fireflies

date: About 1767

medium: Color woodblock print; chūban


title: The Face in the Mirror


title: Gonchunagon Sadaie (Fujiwara no Teika), from an untitled series of parodies of the Three Evening Poems


title: Burning Maple Leaves to Heat Sake


title: Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi, from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets


title: Bush Clover (Hagi), from an untitled series of Flowers


title: Ise, from an untitled series of Thirty-six Immortal Poets


title: Returning Sails at Shinagawa (Shinagawa no kihan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"


title: Tree Peony: Chozan of Chojiya (Chojiya uchi Chozan, Kao), from the series "Parodies of Floating-world Beauties as Flowers (Ukiyo bijin hana mitate)"

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


title: Poem by Chosui, from the series "Five Fashionable Colors of Ink (Furyu goshiki-zumi)"


title: Poem by Nakatsukasa, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Couple with a Pet Mouse


title: Poem by Henjo Sojo, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: Poem by Abe no Nakamaro, from an untitled series of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets


title: Fun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Allegory of the Six Poets (Furyu rokkasen)"

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


title: Clearing Weather at Asakusa (Asakusa no seiran), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"


title: Sumirena: The Mistress of Yojiya (Yojiya musume, Sumirena), from the series "Beauties of the Floating World Compared to Flowers (Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu)"


title: Poem by Chunagon Asatada, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets


title: The Abalone (Awabi), from an untitled series of Shells

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


title: Geese Descending on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa no rakugan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"


title: Freeing a captured bird


title: The Third Month (Yayoi), from the series "Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)"


title: The Fourth Month (Uzuki), from the series "Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)"


title: The Eighth Month (Chushu), from the series "Popular Versions of Immortal Poets in Four Seasons (Fuzoku shiki kasen)"


title: The Lion Dance

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Going to the Theater


title: Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock


title: Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain


title: Incense That Revives the Image of the Dead - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

creator: Attributed to Komatsuya Hyakki

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2144)


title: Young Man Seated on an Ox

creator: Shichu


title: Yang Guifei

creator: Komatsuya Hyakki


title: Mechanical Elephant with Festival Barge and Korean Musicians


title: Incense That Revives the Image of the Dead - Lady Li

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of chuban diptych (left sheet: 1925.2143)


title: Narihira at Yatsuhashi Bridge

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Cherry Tree and Pheasant


title: Onamushi no Mikoto Killing the Great Bird

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e


title: Shutendoji in Oeyama Palace


title: Two Women with Boy in Front of Powder Shop

creator: Attributed to Shiba Kokan (Suzuki Harushige)


title: The Hagi Jewel River, from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

creator: Shiba Kokan (Suzuki Harushige)


title: Young Girl Throwing Fish into Pond

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


title: Courtesan Burning Mosquitoes as Her Guest Arrives


title: Two Young Girls in a Rain Shower

creator: Mitsunobu


title: Praying for Rain Komachi (Amagoi Komachi)


title: Exchange of Gifts (Yuino), the second sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: The Introduction (Miai), the first sheet from the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: The Ceremonial Sake (Konrei sakazuki), the fourth sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: The Bride Riding in the Palanquin to Her Husband's House (Koshi-iri), the third sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: A Cup of Sake before Bed (Toko sakazuki), the sixth sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: The Bride Changing Clothes (Iro-naoshi), the fifth sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: Key block print for The Introduction (Miai), the first sheet from the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"

medium: Woodblock print; key block, chuban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock


title: The First Childbirth (Uizan), the seventh sheet of the series "Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)"


title: View of Mount Fuji at sunrise on New Year's Day

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Evening Snow at Ikenohata (Ikenohata bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Prosperity in the Eastern Village (Azuma no sato eiga hakkei)"


title: Black Dog


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Heron on Boat (一路平安図鐔)

creator: Shōzui

medium: Iron, gold, copper-silver alloy (<i>shibuichi</i>)

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Mrs. J.B. Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Ishizara with Rabbit Jumping Over a Stream

date: early 19th century

medium: Stoneware with iron brown and cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Seto ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Copper Fish Hook

date: 12th century

medium: Copper

country: North Coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Metal-implement
North coast

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Terracotta statuette of a dancing woman

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: A seated couple, embracing

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

medium: White chalk with touches of graphite on brown paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Donahue, 1997


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Johnson, Washington, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Pin

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Antimony

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Brick

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Glazed ceramic

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Relief of the foot of an ox - see 26.3.353-3

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Amulet depicting human head emerging from lotus

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pitcher

creator: Albert-Louis Dammouse

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Stern, 1991


title: Four Designs for Hanging Light Fixtures

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Henricus VIII Angliae Rex etc.

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Fragment from a marble head of a man, preserving the nose and mouth

date: mid-2nd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Beads

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Glass and lacquer

subjects: Jewelry Japan


title: Cuff

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Greta Trygger, 1927


title: God Closing the Door of Noah’s Ark

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint, and lead

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Pitcher

date: 4th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta fragment of a krater (deep bowl)

date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Pumas

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Square vase

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain with green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: Tile


title: Oval dish

creator: Antoine Théry

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Breadth

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Sloane Coffin, 1975


title: Design for a Plate

creator: Karl Bodmer

medium: Pen and black ink, over black chalk on blue paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


creator: Hieron

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Un Leçon de Botanique, from "Croquis Parisiens"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: December 2, 1851

medium: Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Design for a decorative panel in the Baroque style for the Chateau de Vaux-Praslin

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash on wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Dress

creator: House of Paquin

medium: [no medium available]

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Orme Wilson and Mr. R. Thornton Wilson, 1949


title: Seated Faun

creator: Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Mummy label

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Wood, ink

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Arrowhead

date: possibly 15th–17th century

medium: Iron

country: probably Tibetan

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Probably tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2011


title: Lid for a Jar

medium: Faience, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: Terracotta bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


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

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

country: Japan

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Monkey's Quiver (Utsubo-zaru), from the series "Popular Kyogen Plays (Furyu kyogen asobi)"


title: Puppies in the Snow


title: Two Birds on Hibiscus Tree

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


title: Monkey playing with crabs

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


title: Egrets in the Reeds

creator: Attributed to Isoda Koryusai


title: Parrot on Quince Tree

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


title: Pheasants under Branch of Peach Blossoms

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


title: Mandarin Ducks Swimming under Plum Branch


title: Cranes and Bamboo


title: Cranes in an Iris Pond at Sunrise


title: Cocks Fighting near Bamboo Grove


title: Cocks Fighting Under a Tree


title: Chinese Lions and Peonies


title: The Artisan (Ko) from the series "Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: The Merchant (Sho) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)


title: The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)


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


title: The Samurai (Shi) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho)


title: The First Month (Mutsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Seasons (Furyu juni kiko)"


title: The Sixth Month (Minatsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juniko)"


title: Carrying a lantern sponsored by the Kojimachi, from the series "The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno gosairei)"


title: Uma no Naishi, from the series "Modern Versions of Famous Japanese Beauties (Wakoku bijin Yatsushishu)


title: Carrying a Lantern Decorated with the Flowers of the Four Seasons (Hirakawa-cho Yamamoto-cho shiki no hana mando) from the series "The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno go-sairei)"


title: Carrying a lantern sponsored by the Motozaimoku-cho, from the series "The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno gosairei)"


title: Nakasu, from the series "Ten Scenes of Enjoying the Cool in the Three Cities (Sangatsu ryo jikkei)"


title: No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)"


title: Young Samurai on Horseback

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Woman After a Bath, from "Comparison of Alluring Beauties (Irokurabe enpu sugata)"


title: The Bon Festival in the Sixth Month, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu juni setsu)"


title: Karauta of the Ogiya in Evening Snow (Ogiya Karauta bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Famous Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro meifu hakkei)"


title: The Eighth Month at Hagi Temple (Hachigatsu Hagidera), from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Twelve Months (Edo meisho junigatsu)"

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


title: The New Year's Offering


title: The Courtesan Mitsuhana of the Ohishiya (Ohishiya uchi Mitsuhana), from the series "Evergreen Brocades of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro tokiwa nishiki)"


title: Cutting and Sewing (Tachinui), from the series "Collection of of Fashionable Accomplishments (Furyu shogei zukushi)"


title: The Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen), from the series "Collection of Comic Performances from the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro niwaka kyogen zukushi)"


title: Geese Descending at Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of the Edo Pleasure Quarters (Edo irozato hakkei)"


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


title: Girl Playing a Prank on a Young Man who is Napping


title: Two Young Women Playing Cat's Cradle


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

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


title: A Courtesan and Her Attendant Using Mirrors to Identify a Mendicant Monk


title: Cock Flying Over Pot of Adonis


title: Hares Playing in Surf on a Moonlit Night


title: Moso (Chinese: Meng Zong), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)"


title: The Flute (Hichiriki), from the series "Fashionable Musical Amusements of Children (Furyu kodomo asobi ongaku)"


title: Phoenix Flying Over Waves in front of Morning Sun


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


title: Courtesan Looking Back at Shadows on the Shoji


title: Evening Glow at Matsusaki (Matsusaki no sekisho), from the series "Eight Fashionabe Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Sayoginu of the Yotsumeya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"

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


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


title: The Sixth Month (Minazuki): Nioteru of the Ogiya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"


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


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


title: The Ninth Month (Choyo), from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Five Festivals (Furyu yatsushi gosekku)"


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


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


title: Takigawa and Katarai of the Ogiya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"


title: Tamazusa of Iedaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyo)"


title: Komachi and the Stupa (Sotoba Komachi), from the series "Informal Parodies of the Seven Komachi in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro ryaku nana Komachi)"


title: The Flowered-hat Dance (Hanagasa odori), from the series "Comic Performances from the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro niwaka kyogen)"


title: Haruka and Haruji of the Kadotamaya as Soga no Goro and Asaina Saburo in the armor-pulling scene, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"


title: Solving a Puzzle

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: Early to mid-18th century

medium: Woodblock print; hand-colored sumie-e

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


title: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - No. 2 (Chikurin shichiken sono ni), from the series "Popular Versions of Sages (Fuzoku kenjin ryaku)"


title: Courtesan Likened to the Chinese Sage Zhang Guolao (Japanese: Chokaro)

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


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Soga no Goro

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


title: Yaoya Oshichi holding a battledore paddle

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


title: Young Woman and Hotei

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

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


title: Woman Writing a Letter in Front of a Screen

date: early 1740s

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


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a young man holding an umbrella and a lantern

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


title: The Yoshiwara in Edo - A Set of Three (Edo Yoshiwara sanpukutsui)

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; left sheet of toku-oban triptych, beni-e


title: A Courtesan Holding a Lantern and a Fan

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


title: Young Woman with Umbrella


title: Young Woman after a Bath

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


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Fuwa Banzaemon in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748

creator: Torii Kiyoshige


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu l as a young man


title: Walking Courtesan, Possibly Sugawara of the Tsuruya House of Pleasure

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

date: mid–late 1770s

medium: Color woodblock print; wide hashira-e


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Okoma (right), and Arashi Sangoro III as the Hairdresser Obana Saizaburo (left), in the Play Koi Musume Mukashi Hachijo, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1776


title: Two Young Women Walking Under an Umbrella

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych


title: Courtesan Wearing a Chrysanthemum-Patterned Kimono


title: A Courtesan of the Matsubaya


title: Husband and Wife Caught in an Evening Shower (Fufu no Yudachi), from the series "Three Evening Pleasures of the Floating World" ("Ukiyo San Seki")

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; naga-oban

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


title: Mother and Child at Dusk (Oyako yugure), from the series "Three Evening Pleasure of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)"

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


title: Northern Quarter (Hokkoku), from the series "Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin sanyu)"


title: Women Admiring Peonies

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Picture of Hideyoshi and his Five Wives Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Higashiyama (Taiko gosai rakuto yukan no zu)


title: Rain the Morning After in the Pleasure Quarter (Seiro kinuginu no ame)

creator: Eishosai Choki

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: At the Ferry Boat Landing


title: Sheltering from a Sudden Shower


title: Visit to the Masaki Inari Shrine


title: Visitors to Enoshima


title: Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: Flower Viewing

creator: Attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu

date: 1711 (reprint of 17th century work)


title: Yoshitsune's Encounter with Princess Joruri, from "The Tale of Joruri in Twelve Episodes (Joruri Junidan Zoshi)"

creator: Sugimura Jihei

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


title: Yoshiwara Impromptu

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban septaptych


title: Pillars of Eitai Bridge

medium: Color woodblock print; large surimono


title: Women Boarding a Pleasure Boat

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych


title: Women Walking by a Moat

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets from oban triptych


title: Women Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge


title: Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock on New Year's Day


title: Travelers on the Tokaido

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of triptych


title: An outing at Hagidera, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


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


title: By an Iris Pond


title: An Outing in Spring, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku azuma no nishiki)


title: The Third Month (Sangatsu), from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"


title: The Fourth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban diptych


title: Votive Offering

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of oban pentaptych


title: The Sixth Month, Enjoying the Evening Cool in a Teahouse, from the series The Twelve Months in the Southern Quarter (Minami jūni kō)

date: About 1783


title: Women Coming Ashore from a Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River


title: Pleasure Boats below Azuma Bridge


title: Pleasure Boats at a Landing


title: A Modern Version of Ushiwakamaru Serenading Princess Joruri


title: The Mieido Fan Shop

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: Courtesans and Their Attendants Parading under Lanterns


title: The Fifth Month, a Set of Three (Gogatsu sambukutsui), from the series "Twelve Months by the Twin Brushes of Toyohiro and Toyokuni (Toyohiro Toyokuni ryoga juni ko)"


title: A Windy Day under the Cherry Trees


title: A Parody of Hachi no ki


title: An Imperial Carriage


title: Chinese Beauties at a Banquet


title: The Scoop-Net


title: On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban hexaptych (one of a pair of triptychs)


title: House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

date: late 1790s

medium: Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych


title: Parody of Minamoto no Yoritomo releasing cranes at Yuigahama


title: Watching the Shellfish Gathering during Low Tide at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari kenbutsu)


title: Momiji no ga, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"


title: A Fan Peddler Passing Beneath a Balcony

medium: Color woodblock prints; vertical oban diptych


title: Standing Courtesan

creator: Kaigetsudo Dohan

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


title: Full Moon Over Mountain Scenery

creator: Keisai Eisen

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


title: Arrival of the Korean Embassy in Edo

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Woodblock print; oban sumizuri-e, 1 of 6 sheets from a 12-sheet composition (see 1925.2334a-f)


title: Women Washing Clothes

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, triptych


title: A Party Viewing the Moon Across the Sumida River


title: Iris Garden


title: Visiting a temple dedicated to Fudo


title: Fuji no uraba, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"


title: Drying Clothes (Monohoshi)


title: The Courtesans of the Chojiya on Display in the Daytime (Chojiya hirumise)

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: A seaside outing


title: Enjoying the Cool in a Garden


title: The Seventh Month, from the series The Twelve Months by Two Artists (Ryoga juni ko)

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro


title: Washing Cloth in a Stream


title: Parody of The Book of Joruri

medium: Color woodblock print; oban pentaptych


title: Second Month: Matsuchi Hill in Snow at Dusk (Kisaragi, Matsuchiyama yuki no tasogare), from the series "True Views of Famous Places in Tokyo (Tokyo meisho shinkei no uchi)"

creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych

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


title: Parody of Prince Genji and his procession

creator: Rekisentei Eiri


title: Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban pentaptych


title: A Triptych of Fashionable No Plays (Furyu Utai Sambukutsui)

creator: Miyagawa Shunsui

date: c. late 1750s

medium: Color woodblock print; benizuri hosoban; triptych (uncut)


title: Actor Segawa Kikunojô III as the Dragon Princess in the Play “Saki Masuya Ume no Kachidoki”

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1778

medium: Color woodblock print; ôban


title: Actors Onoe Tamizô I, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, and Osagawa Tsuneyo II, in (possibly) “A Dandyish Brocade: Opposing Warriors” (“Date Nishiki Tsui noYumitori”)

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych


title: The Courtesan Sugawara of the Tsuruya House and Her Kamuro Namiji and Kashiko

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in the Wardrobe Room of a Theater

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Iwai Hanshirô IV, and (possibly) Iwai Karumo on a Landing Backstage


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Princess Hatsune (Hatsune Hime) (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Miyukinosuke Yukinari, in the Play Otokoyama Furisode Genji, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I


title: Half-Length Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu in Act Three of the play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban

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


title: Actors Iwai Hanshirô IV, Ichikawa Monnosuke II, and Sakata Hangorô III, in “Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu” (“Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

date: About 1786


title: Dance Interlude “The Wife from Shinoda Forest" (“Shinodazuma”) in “Mirror of Ashiya Dôman and Ôuchi” (“Dôman Ôuchi kagami”), from the series Designs for Patchwork Pictures (Oshie-gata)

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1795


title: The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okume (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Koshiba Yukienojo Disguised as the Eboshi Seller Rokusaburo (left), in the Play Katakiuchi Adana Kashiku, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1779

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych


title: Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Retired Emperor Sutoku

date: About 1780

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Actor Nakamura Noshio II as Tonase in “Model for Kana Calligraphy: Treasury of the 47 Loyal Retainers” (“Kanadehon chûshingura”)


title: Act Ten: The Amakawaya House from the play Chushingura (Treausry of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

date: early 1790s

medium: Woodblock print; chuban, keyblock proof impression


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Kakogawa Honzo in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Fifth Month, 1795


title: Youth Dancing with a Spear


title: Courteousness (Rei), from the series "Five Virtues in the Manners of Women (Fuzoku onna gojo)"

creator: Katsukawa Shunzan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Act Nine: Yuranosuke's House in Yamashina from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)


title: The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo I as the Heron Maiden (Sagi Musume)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Koga Saburo, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as the Devil of Kogakeyama, the Spirit of Wakasa no Zenji Yasumura, in the Play Kono Hana Yotsugi no Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô IV as an Immortal Hermit in “Tenjiku Tokubei Turns the Helm toward Home” (“Tenjiku Tokubei kokyô no torikaji”)

date: About 1768


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Kanaishi in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772

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


title: Actors playing the roles of Giheiji and his son-in-law, Danshichi Kurobei


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Kisegawa in a "Nuno Sarashi" Dance, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kojoro-gitsune of Hakata in the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776

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


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Lady Kikusui (Kikusui Gozen) (?) in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1779 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition


title: Actor Arashi Hinaji I Dancing in “The Maiden at Dojo Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)

date: About 1772


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Sonobe Zaemon in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth Month, 1779

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the female fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the play "Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1777

medium: Color woodblock print; one sheet of hosoban tetraptych


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX in an Unidentified Role

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in an Unidentified Role


title: Actor Arashi Ryûzô II as Hachijô in “Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans” (“Gempei hashira-goyomi”)


title: The Actor Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Naniwazu in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


title: Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified Role

creator: Katsukawa Shunko (Japanese, 1743-1812)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Katanaya Hanshichi in the Play Heike Hyobanki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1789

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1787