title: Head of Louis XI of France

creator: Artist unknown (European, active 19th century)

medium: Limestone

country: Europe

subjects:
Bust/head
Europe
Head
Man
France
King
Limestone
Stonework
Nineteenth century
Carbonate rock
Sedimentary rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Architectural fragment
Sculpture/stone
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique


title: Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes from the Life of Christ

creator: Made for the Cathedral Seo de Urgel

date: Late 16th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave, silk and gilt and silvered wire, plain weave with twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; silk and silvered wire, twill weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt and silvered wire in overcast, satin, padded satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; semi-precious stones; edged with woven fringes

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object

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: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

medium: Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in back, hem, overcast, satin, and single satin stitches; edged with linen, needle lace worked on a plain weave cut and drawn thread work grid; and linen and silk, bobbin straight lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Long Shawl

creator: India

medium: Wool, patchwork of double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weaves; center of 2:2 'S' twill weave; embroidered in satin, surface satin, and stem stitches; "Harlequin" tabs of pieced 2:2 twill weaves; embroidered in flat, satin, surface satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; warp fringe

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Dora A. Seeberger


title: Coverlet

creator: United States

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; main warp fringe

country: United States

subjects:
Weaving - coverlet
United state
Geometric motif
Grid
Pine tree
Geometric
Coverlet
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Double cloth
Wool (textile)
Textile
Fringed

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus


title: Les Plaisirs des Quatre Saisons (Pleasures of the Four Seasons) (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811)) after Jacques Stella (French, 1596–1657) and Claudine Stella (French, 1636–1697)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

country: Jouy-en-Josas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Jouy-en-josa
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, II


title: Mise-en-carte (Point-paper)

creator: Designed by Le Clere L'ainé

medium: Paint on graph paper

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Paper (fiber product)
Accessory - paper design

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Panel

creator: Florence, Italy

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; block printed

country: Florence

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Florence
Plain weaving
Linen (material)
Weaving - printed
Block printing

credit_line: Through prior bequest of Chester D. Tripp


title: Long Shawl

medium: Wool, double interlocking twill tapestry weave, woven in rectangular sections; "Harlequin" tabs of twill weaves; embroidered with wool in back, flat, fly, satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching; embroidered with silk in long and short stitches; warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Scott S. Durand


title: Fragment

creator: Spain

date: 13th/14th century

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, weft-float faced three-color complementary 2:1 twill weave with inner warps

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Silk (textile)
Twill weaving
Weaving
Gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Fragment

creator: Granada, Spain

date: 14th/15th century

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts

country: Granada

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Granada
Arts of the islamic world
Weaving
Hispano-moresque
Medieval
European
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp


title: Winter, from The Seasons

creator: After a design by Charles Le Brun (French, 1619–1690)

medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

country: Paris

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
Pari
Winter
Crown
Hourglasse
Time
Vegetable
Produce
Cabbage
Squash
Duck
Rabbit
Pheasant
Hunting
Cloud
Plant
Flower
Wreath
Death
Musical instrument
Spear
Guns
Armor
Weapon
Arms
Food
Forest
Tree
Gods (deities)
Goddesse
Greek gods
Season
Tapestry (process)
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Textile
Essential

credit_line: Gift of the Hearst Foundation in memory of William Randolph Hearst


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving - velvet
Velvet

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society


title: Autumn, from The Seasons

creator: After a design by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
Pari
Wool (textile)
Textile


title: Panel

creator: France

medium: Silk, plain weave with self-patterning ground wefts, 'watered' (moiré)

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Lattice
Foliage
Fruit
Lace
Silk (textile)
Moiré
Weaving
Plain weaving

credit_line: Royalties from Perfect-Fit Industries


title: Coverlet

creator: Abram Allen (American, born Irish, c. 1796- after 1860)

medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

country: Ohio

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.


title: Rug

date: 19th century

medium: Linen and cotton plain weave with wool yarns forming "hooked" pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Needlework - rug

credit_line: Bequest of William McCormick Blair


title: L'Honesto Essempio (The Accurate Example)

creator: Matthio Pagan (Italian, active 1538–1562)

medium: Woodblock printed; 21 pages

country: Venice

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Venice
Paper (fiber product)
Book
Woodblock

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Unfinished Panel

creator: Switzerland

medium: Linen, plain weave; underdrawing in graphite; embroidered with silk and linen in back, buttonhole, double running, eyelet, knot and satin stitches; laid work and couching

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Switzerland
Foliage
Animal
Bird
Circle
Flower
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William J. Robertson in appreciation for all the pleasures enjoyed at The Art Institute of Chicago especially since 1968.


title: Mise-en-carte (Point-paper)

medium: Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Paper (fiber product)
Accessory - paper design

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Neil P. Frankel, Nina Hancock, Robert D. Kleinschmidt; Royalties from F. Schumacher and Company


title: Bedcover

creator: China

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered in knot, satin, and split stitches; five loom widths joined

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold T. Martin and Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken


title: Panel Depicting Madonna and Child

medium: Hemp, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, gilt-metal strip and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave and oblique interlaced tapes; embroidered with wool in cross, reverse tent and tent stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Switzerland
Religious scene
Hemp
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Appliqué (technique)
Embroidering
Needlepoint (needleworking)

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Chancellerie

creator: Woven at an unknown workshop at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
France
Monogram
King
Coat of arms
Cartouche
Fleur de lis
Ribbon
Wool (textile)
Tapestry weaving
Textile
Silk (fiber)
Slit tapestry weaving

credit_line: Gift of Honoré Palmer


title: Ceremonial Waist Sash (ikak pinggang)

creator: Minangkabau people

medium: Cotton, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, bands of weft-faced warp ribbed plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, and bands of slit tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; edged with tape of cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, and gilt-metal strip; plain weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; underlaid with tape of cotton, plain weave with extended paired weft and gilt-metal coil fringe

country: Sumatra

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Sumatra
Indonesian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object

credit_line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection


title: Ceremonial Waist Sash (ikak pinggang)

medium: Cotton, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton; in bands of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and slit and dovetailed tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; edged with tape of cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton and gilt-metal strip, plain weave with supplementary wefts; underlaid with tape of cotton, plain weave with extended paired weft and silvered-metal coil fringe


title: Ceremonial Waist Sash (ikak pinggang)

medium: Cotton, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, bands of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, and bands of interlocking tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork and paper padded couching; embellished with gold-colored-metal spangles; edged with tape of cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, and gilt-metal strip; plain weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; underlaid with tape of cotton, plain weave with extended paired weft and gilt-metal coil fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Sumatra
Paper (fiber product)
Indonesian
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object
Embellished


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)

creator: Paminggir people

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Five panels joined: three panels of stripes of silk and cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave (paired warps), stripes of warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and one stripe of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, double running, stem and surface satin stitches and two panels of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, stem and surface satin stitches

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Indonesian
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Costume


title: Ceremonial Waist Sashes (ikak pinggang)

medium: Cotton and silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, bands of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, weft-faced, warp ribbed plain weave, and slit tapestry weave; ends of wool, plain weave; fulled; with hammered white metal fitting and fringe of chain and cut, hammered end pieces


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)

medium: Two panels joined: stripes of cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat), plain weave with paired warps; cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts: and stripes of cotton, plain weave embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk in back, chain, stem and surface satin stitches; laidwork and couching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Indonesian
Plain weaving
Paper (fiber product)
Needlework (visual works)
Cotton (textile)
Sumatran
Warp resist dyeing (warp ikat)
Costume


title: Hanging

creator: Iran

medium: Linen, plain weave; painted; printed

country: Iran

subjects:
Weaving - printed
Iran
Tree of life
Lion
Royal personage
Suns
Coat of arms
Animal
Plain weaving
Linen (material)
Printing
Painting (image making)
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Fell


title: Painted cotton with medallion and figures

creator: Deccan, India

date: 15th century

medium: cotton, plain weave; painted mordant; resist-dyed; painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Floral motif
Monster
Animal
Bird
Foliage
Horn
Infant
Medallion
Men
People
Rider
Vegetal design
Women
Cotton (fiber)
Kalamkari
Weaving - printed
Dye
Paint
Painting
Plain weaving
Resist dyeing
Weaving

credit_line: Major Acquisitions Centennial Fund


title: Sample Book Containing 125 Swatches

creator: Produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna, active 1903–1932)

medium: Silk or wool, plain weave; screen printed

country: Vienna

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Vienna
Modernism
Book
Sample book
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Robert Allerton Endowment


title: Louis-Philippe, Last King of the French 1848. Design for a medal to be manufactured by the National Mint

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Boy Waiting for Coal to Come Thru

creator: Lewis Wickes Hine

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects:
Photograph
United state
Photographic paper
Black-and-white photography
Photography
Photographic processe
Photographic technique

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Taub


title: Allegory of Winter

creator: Artist unknown (English, active 19th century)

medium: Marble

country: England

subjects:
Mythology
Relief
England
Season
Wall
Elderly
Woman
Man
Fire
Winter
Marble
Sculpting
Nineteenth century
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
British
Sculpture/stone
Stone
Sculpture technique
Stonework

credit_line: Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick


title: Scenic Wallpaper: The Battle of Heliopolis

creator: Designed by Jean-Julien Deltil

date: First edition, c. 1818

medium: Block-printed, hand colored paper

subjects:
Wallpaper
France
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest H. Hicks


title: Angel of the Annunciation

creator: School of Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435–1488)

medium: Terracotta with polychromy and gilding

country: Italy

subjects:
Statuette
Italy
Angel
Dresse
Figure
Pitcher
Woman
Terracotta
Sculpting
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Terracotta (sculpture)
Italian
Gilding
Polychrome
Polychromy
Forming
Modeling (forming)
Painting
Painting (coating)
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Male Face Mask (Chihongo)

creator: Chokwe

date: Mid–late 19th century

medium: Wood, raffia, burlap, turaco feathers, guinea fowl feathers, and pigment

country: Angola

subjects:
Mask
Angola
Ritual
Leadership
Ancestor
Initiation
Male
Masquerade
Status
Wisdom
Wood (plant material)
Carving
Chokwe
Featherwork
Raffia
Burlap
Feather
Arts of africa
Pigment
African art
Ceremonial mask
Appliqué (technique)
Painting (image making)
Central africa

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

creator: Designed by Jean Avisse

medium: Beechwood, painted and gilded, modern reproduction upholstery

subjects: Wood Pari Furniture

credit_line: The Antiquarian Society through the Harold T. Martin Charitable Trust


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

subjects:
Seating
Pari
Furniture
European decorative arts


title: Side Table

creator: England

medium: Mahogany table with marble top

subjects:
Table
England
Furniture
Mahogany
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Drug Jar (Albarello)

creator: Italian, possibly Faenza

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Urbania

subjects:
Earthenware
Urbania
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Saint Florian

creator: Anton Eberhardt (Austrian, active 1760)

medium: Lindenwood

country: Austria

subjects:
Large scale
Austria
Saint
Weapon
Sword
Religious figure
Religious
Religion
Man
Helmet
Christianity
Christian subject
Armor
Carving
Wood (plant material)
Sculpture technique
Sculpting
Modeling (forming)
Organic material
Linden
Plant material
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Daniel Huger


title: Wallpaper Panel with Birds and Flowering Trees

creator: China, made for the European market

date: Late 18th/early 19th century

medium: Hand-painted paper

subjects:
Wallpaper
France
Birds
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr.


title: The Lion Hunt

creator: Pierre Andrieu (French, 1821-1892)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Painting
France
Hunter
Animal
Horse
Lion
Sword
Oil
Oil painting
Oil on canva
Canva
Oil paint (paint)
Paint stick
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Dellora A. Norris


title: Medallion with Head of Medusa

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (jasperware)

country: Burslem

subjects:
Sculpture
Burslem
Jasper ware
Stoneware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer


title: Bowl

creator: England, Staffordshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware), transfer-printed

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Bowl
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Creamware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Lead-glazed earthenware
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Paul Welling


title: Four Sailing Vessels in a Breakwater, from Thirteen Naval Scenes

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Ships & the sea
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Ambrogio Spinola, Commander of the Spanish Armies in the Netherlands

creator: Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds


title: Joseph Distributing Grain to Egypt

creator: Bartholomeus Breenbergh

medium: Etching from two plates on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Joseph's Brothers Showing His Coat to Jacob

creator: Jan Victors

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Brown ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Brown wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams

creator: Govaert Flinck

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Brown ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Brown wash
Wash
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Hagar's Departure, from Six Landscape Subjects from the Old Testament

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching on paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Anonymous gift


title: Three Moored Sailing Vessels, from Thirteen Naval Scenes

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Schniewind


title: Polychrome Jar

creator: Hopi

medium: Ceramic and pigment

country: Arizona

subjects:
Earthenware
Arizona
Abstract figure
Animal
Bird
Servingware
Vessel
Terracotta
Hopi
Modeling (forming)
Inorganic material
Pueblo
Native american
America
Art of the america
Ceramic
Southwest
Native north american
Painting (image making)
Arts of the america

credit_line: Through prior acquisitions of an anonymous donor, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reed Armstrong, Edwin N. Asmann, Herbert Baker, Mrs. Claude A. Benjamin, Charles and Marjorie Benton, Mrs. Gilbert Chapman, Donald M. Coughlin, Dr. Walter Delafield, Mrs. William F. Drews, Stefan Edlis, James W. Ellsworth, Mrs. J. Anastasia Glasheen, Alex Hartler, Grace Hokin, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, Joseph Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Loftus, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Molner in honor of Evan Maurer, Lilac Molner Charitable Trust, Harold Norman, Fred Novy, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Van Zelst and Mrs. Ernest B. Zeisler


title: Screen: Winter (Panel One)

creator: France

medium: Block-printed, color on paper

country: France

subjects:
Wallpaper
France
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
European decorative arts
Furniture

credit_line: Gift of Paul Rosenberg


title: Screen: Summer (Panel Six)


title: Screen: Africa (Panel Four)


title: Screen: Asia (Panel Three)


title: Screen: America (Panel Five)


title: Screen: Europe (Panel Two)


title: Backplate

creator: Northern Italian

medium: Steel

country: Northern Italy

subjects:
Suit-element
Northern italy
Armor
Arms and armor

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Beaker

creator: Bohemia, Czech Republic

medium: Glass

country: Bohemia

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Bohemia
Ships & the sea
Glass
Etching
European decorative arts

credit_line:
Gift of Mr & Mrs Julius Rosenwald

Gift of Julius Rosenwald


title: Goblet

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Bohemia
Ships & the sea
Glass
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald


title: Head of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

creator: Cambodia

date: Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Cambodia

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Cambodia
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Crowned Head

creator: Cambodia or Thailand

date: Angkor period, 12th‒13th century

country: Southeast Asia

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Southeast asia
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Head of Goddess Prajnaparamita or Tara


title: Head of Buddha

creator: Indonesia

date: 9th century

medium: Andesite

country: Central Java

subjects:
Stone
Central java
Buddha
Andesite
Southeast asian
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: The Day's Orders (L'Ordre du Jour)

creator: Camille Silvy

medium: Albumen print

subjects:
Photograph
France
Pari
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Photography Gala Fund; Smart Family Acquisition Fund; Purchased with funds provided by Joyce Chelberg; Lucia Woods and Daniel A. Lindley, Jr. Fund


title: Imitation "Bird" Carpet

creator: Romania

medium: textile

country: Romania

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Romania
Birds
Weaving - carpet
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. McMullan in memory of Margaret O. Gentles


title: Frederick IV (1667-1730), King of Denmark and Norway

creator: Antonio Montauti (Italian, c. 1685–after 1740)

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Bust
Inscription
Man
Mythological figure
Nature
Nobility
Portraits: male subject
Profile
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal

credit_line: Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection


title: Gian Gastone (1671-1731), Grand Duke of Tuscany

creator: Giovanni Francesco Pieri (Italian, 1699–1773)

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Nobility
Crown
Armor
Woman
Women
Figure
Profile
Man
Portraits: male subject
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Cardinal Leopold de'Medici (1617-1753)

creator: Antonio Francesco Selvi (Italian, 1679–1755)

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Bust
Inscription
Man
Portraits: male subject
Profile
Religious figure
Table
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Francesco Redi

creator: Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (Italian, 1658–1740)

date: Date unknown

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Spear
Sacred
Armor
Weapon
Snake
Nature
Tree
Building
Mythical
Mythological figure
Inscription
Bust
Profile
Man
Royal
Nobility
Portraits: male subject
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal


title: Francesco Redi

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Inscription
Figure
Music
Musical instrument
Instrument
Bust
Profile
Man
Portraits: male subject
Nobility
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Francesco Redi

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Figure
Inscription
Bust
Profile
Man
Portraits: male subject
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Gian Gastone de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1685

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Angel
Bust
Inscription
Man
Mythical
Mythological figure
Portraits: male subject
Profile
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal


title: Francis III of Lorraine (1708-1765), Grand Duke of Tuscany

creator: Lorenzo Maria Weber (Italian, 1697–c. 1765)

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Arche
Building
Horse
Inscription
Man
Nobility
Portraits: male subject
Profile
Royal
Tree
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694), Dowger Duchess of Tuscany

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Inscription
Nobility
Portraits: female subject
Woman
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Cosimo III de'Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

creator: Giovacchino Fortini (Italian, 1671/2–1736)

subjects:
Medal
Italy
Portrait
Angel
Bust
Child
Inscription
Jesus
Man
Portraits: male subject
Profile
Religion
Religious
Saint
Bronze
Metalworking
Medal/plaquette/coin
Sculpture
Metal
Copper alloy
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
Nonferrous metal
Italian


title: Pfennig (Coin) of Arnold II von Isenburg, Archbishop of Trier

creator: German; Trier

date: 12th/13th centuries

medium: Silver

country: Trier

subjects:
Coin
Trier
Cross
Cross motif
Inscription
Money
Religious figure
Silver
Metalworking
Medieval
Ancient art
Metal
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
German
Metalwork
Minting

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Roger Trienens


country: Trier district

subjects:
Coin
Trier district
Cross
Cross motif
Inscription
Money
Religious figure
Silver
Metalworking
Medieval
Ancient art
Metal
Inorganic material
Nonferrous alloy
German
Metalwork
Minting


title: Male Nude with Left Foot on a Pedestal

creator: Gustav Klimt

medium: Graphite and white heightening on brown wove paper

subjects:
Graphite
Austria
Paper (fiber product)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Shin'enKan, Inc., Bruce Goff Archives


title: Altar Frontal

creator: Spain or Italy

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary discontinuous facing brocading wefts forming areas of weft loops (known as bouclé) tied by secondary binding warps in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacing and supplementary pile warps forming cut, pile on pile, voided velvet

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Pomegranate
Brocading
Weaving - velvet
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)
Ritual object
Cut and voided

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Attributed to Antonis Mor (Netherlandish, c. 1517–c. 1576)

medium: Oil on panel

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

credit_line: Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund


title: Portrait of a Court Lady

creator: Follower of Antonis Mor (Netherlandish, c. 1517–c. 1576)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Painting
Netherland
Portraits
Portraits: female subject
Woman
Luxury
Wealth
Nobility
Black (color)
Pearl
Lace
Jewelry
Sixteenth century
Oil painting
Oil paint (paint)
Painting technique
Painting (image making)
Paint
Canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Oil on canva
European painting

credit_line: Gift of Chester Dale


title: Handle in the Form of an Animal Head

creator: Japan

medium: Earthenware

country: Japan

subjects:
Ritual object
Japan
Earthenware
Japanese (culture or style)

credit_line: Purchased with Funds Provided by the Weston Foundation; President's Exhibition and Acquisition Fund


title: Hen

date: 6th century


title: Tokoname-Ware Jar

creator: Japanese

medium: Stoneware with ash glaze

subjects:
Stoneware
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Muromachi
Japanism
East asian
Asian
Decorative arts

credit_line: Avery Brundage and Louise Lutz Endowments


title: Tea Bowl

creator: Kato Shuntai

medium: Stoneware

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Japan
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Japanese (culture or style)
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of the family of Lincoln D. and Dorothy S. Scott


title: Hanging Incense Burner

medium: Silver, gold, silk cords

subjects:
Incense burner
Japan
Silver
Japanese (culture or style)
Gold
Cord (fiber product)
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Roger L. Weston


title: Tall Globular Basket

medium: Bamboo

subjects:
Basketry
Japan
Bamboo
Japanese (culture or style)
Decorative arts

credit_line:
Gift of Pamela Crutchfield in memory of Myron R. Szold

Flower arrangement by Shozo Sato, professor emeritus of Art and Design and former artist-in-residence for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


title: Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

creator: Yamaguchi Sekkei

date: Late 17th/early 18th century

medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink and gold on paper

subjects:
Furniture
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Gold
Ink

credit_line: Gift of Leo S. Guthman


title: Southern Barbarians

creator: Artist unknown

date: mid 17th century

medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Allerton Endowment Fund


title: Inro Case

creator: Somada Mitsumine

date: early 19th century

medium: Lacquer with inlay

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Inro
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Inro Case Depicting the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

creator: Chikanao

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson


title: Tea Caddy (Cha-ire)

medium: Glazed stoneware; ivory lid

country: Mishima

subjects:
Porcelain
Mishima
Tea
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel
Decorative arts


title: Inro Case

creator: Artist(s) unknown

date: Edo period (1615–1868)

medium: Lacquer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George T. Smith


title: Hirado Ware Sake Bottle with Design of Chrysanthemums

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain

country: Hizen (former province)

subjects:
Porcelain
Hizen (former province)
Ceramic
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of the Orientals


title: Water Jar (mizusashi)

medium: Glazed stoneware; lacquer lid

subjects:
Ceramic
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Imari-Style Hizen Ware Quadrangular Vase

medium:
Porcelain with cobalt pigment under glaze and
enamels over glaze

subjects:
Vase
Japan
Porcelain
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Satsuma Ware Teabowl

medium: Glazed stoneware

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Japan
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Fudo Myo-o mask

creator: Artist unknown (Japanese)

date: 15th-16th century

medium: Wood with traces of color

subjects:
Wood
Japan
Mask
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Shoki the Demon Queller

creator: Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752-1811)

date: 17th to 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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

credit_line: Purchased from Miss Alice Boney. Russell Tyson Purchase Fund #1 income


title: Ko-Kutani ware plate with design of a squirrel in a tree

creator: Artist unknown (Japanese, active 17th century)

date: 17th century

subjects:
Ceramic
Japan
Trees
Asian art


title: Plate

date: Edo period (1603–1868), 18th century

medium: Arita ware; porcelain with underglaze-blue decoration

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Japan
Porcelain
Japanese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Arita ware dish, Kakiemon style

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

medium: Porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamel decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
Japan
Ceramic
Asian art


title: Arita-ware Kakiemon Octagonal Dish

date: 19th–early 20th century

medium: Porcelain with enamel decoration

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Japan
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of The Orientals


title: Dish with Design of a Court Woman

medium: Porcelain with colored enamels

subjects:
Porcelain
Japan
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts

credit_line: Russell Tyson Fund


title: Two sparrows

creator: Nagasawa Rosetsu (Japanese, 1754-1799)

medium: mounted painting; ink on paper

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Asian art


title: Oe no Masafusa and Minamoto no Yoshiie

creator: Reizei Tamechika

date: Edo period (1610–1868)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Kato Real Estate Fund


title: Illustration of the Tale of Genji, ch. 8 Hana no en

creator: Studio of Tosa Mitsuyoshi

medium: Shikishi, ink, colors, and gold leaf on paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art


title: Illustration of the Tale of Genji, chapter 5 Waka-Murasaki


title: Kiyomizu-Type Sake Bottle with Design of Chrysanthemum Boy

creator: Taizan

date: About 1770

medium: Stoneware with blue underglaze

credit_line: Bequest of Kate S. Buckingham


title: Fox

creator: Tanaka Nikka (Japanese, d.1845)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

credit_line: David Newman purchased from. Miss Louise Lutz purchased with funds provided by


title: Scroll with twelve erotic scenes

creator: Hishikawa School (Japanese, active early 18th century)

date: Early 18th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on paper

credit_line: Leo Guthman gift


title: Portrait of Daruma

creator: Takuan Boô

date: 16th century–17th century

medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Rosenthal


title: Ariwara no Narihira's Journey East

creator: Ko Sukoku

date: late 18th century

medium: One of a pair of hanging scrolls (with 1992.172); Ink and color on silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Leo Guthman


title: Offering Table Containing the Seals of Suzuki Kiitsu

creator: Kiitsu Suzuki

medium: Hanging Scroll; ink and colors on paper

credit_line: Avery Brundage and Margaret Dornbusch Endowments


title: Tempest

creator: Utagawa Kunitoshi

date: Late 19th century

medium: Former hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Japan
Painting
Asian art
Print

credit_line: Otto C. Doering Fund


title: Ariwara no Narihira's Journey East

medium: One of a pair of hanging scrolls (with 1985.1); Ink and color on silk

credit_line: Gift of Leo S. Guthman


title: Gazu suifuyo

creator: Fuyo Suzuki

medium: Woodblock printed books, three volumes

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


title: Clytie

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

medium: Plaster

country: England

subjects:
Bust/head
England
Greek mythology
Sunflower
Mythology
Mythological figure
Head
Bust
Woman
Plaster
Sculpture technique
Sculpture
British
Inorganic material
Forming
Modeling (forming)
Sculpting
Nineteenth century

credit_line: Lacy Armour Endowment; through prior gift of George F. Harding Collection


title: Posthumous Bust of Pope Pius V

creator: Follower of Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654)

medium: Terracotta

country: Italy

subjects:
Bust/head
Italy
Portraits: male subject
Portrait
Man
Pope
Religion
Religious attire
Bust
Head
Sculpting
Terracotta
Modeling (forming)
Firing (heating)
Terracotta (sculpture)
Italian
Inorganic material
Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Max Epstein


title: Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin

creator: Jean-Étienne Liotard

medium: Pastel on vellum

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Pastel
Switzerland
Portraits
Pastel (crayons)
Crayon
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Folding Screen (Biombo)

creator: Sino-Portuguese, Probably Macau

medium: Wood, canvas, paper, polychrome colors, and gilding

country: China

subjects:
Screen
China
Furniture
Gilding
Paper (fiber product)
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter in memory of her mother, Mrs. James Breckenridge Waller.


title: Exercise of Arms

creator: Jacob de Gheyn, II

medium: Illustrated book featuring 117 copper plate engravings on ivory laid paper; full vellum binding

country: Netherlands

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Juno, Ceres, and Psyche

creator: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, about 1486–1527)

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Courage

creator: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1486–1527)

medium: Engraving in black ink on paper

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas

creator: Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520-1582)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: The Calumny of Apelles

creator: Cornelis Cort (Netherlandish, 1533/36-1578)

country: Holland

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Print and Drawing Fund and Stanley Field Endowment


title: Trajan Crowned by Victory

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Italy
Ink
Paper
Engraving
Print
Laid paper

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Justice Rewarding the Worthy

creator: Cornelis Cort (Netherlandish, 1533-before 1578)

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Paper
Engraving
Print

credit_line: Gift of Charles Hack and The Hearn Family Trust


title: A Naval Battle

creator: Michele Lucchese (Italian, active 1534-1564)

medium: Engraving and etching in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Italy
Ships & the sea
Paper
Etching
Engraving
Print


title: David Cutting Off Goliath's Head

creator: Giovanni Battista Scultori (Italian, 1503–1575)

subjects:
Print and drawing
Italy
Paper
Engraving
Print


title: Figures from the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

creator: Adamo Scultori (Italian, c. 1530–1585)

medium: 12 engravings in black on cream laid paper, tipped onto album sheet

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Paper
Print and drawing
Print


title: The Prophet Jeremiah

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet (French, 1515-after 1565)

country: France

subjects:
Engraving
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Prints and Drawing Purchase Fund


medium: 72 engravings in black on cream laid paper, tipped onto album sheet


title: Plate 14b, from Turnier Buch Herzogs Wilhelm des Vierten von Bayern (Tournament Book of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria)

creator: Theobald Senefelder (German, 1777-1846)

medium: Lithograph in black and metallic pigments, with pen and ink retouchings, on ivory wove paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Lithograph
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Plate 14a, from Turnier Buch Herzogs Wilhelm des Vierten von Bayern (Tournament Book of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria)


title: Pendant

creator: Kuba

medium: Jute, raffia, cowrie shells, and beads

country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

subjects: Kuba (democratic republic of congo style

credit_line: Gift of Richard Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection


title: Pendant Belt (Nkody Mupaap)

credit_line: Gift of Richard J. Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection


title: Pair of Staffs (Edan)

creator: Yoruba

date: 19th century or before

medium: Ivory, iron, and string

country: Nigeria

subjects:
Ivory
Nigeria
Carving
Yoruba
Arts of africa
Dentin
Bone
Iron (metal)
Metal
Inorganic material
African art
Ceremonial object
Ritual object
Coastal west africa

credit_line: Gift of Michael J. Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection


title: Belt (Yeemy Mambolmashet)


title: Altar Stool

creator: Attributed to an unidentified Ketu master (active mid-19th century)

date: Mid–/late 19th century

medium: Wood and pigment

subjects:
Sculpture
Nigeria
Ritual
Sacrifice
Offering
Wood (plant material)
Yoruba
Carving
Arts of africa
Pigment
Coastal west africa
Furniture
African art
Altar object
Ritual object
Painting (coating)
Ketu

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Jamee and Marshall Field, and Mrs. Stanley M. Freehling; Laura T. Magnuson Endowment


title: Head (Uhunmwun Elao)

creator: Edo, Kingdom of Benin

date: 18th/early 19th century

medium: Brass

subjects:
Sculpture
Nigeria
Ancestor
Altar
People
Authority
Sacred
Divine
Supernatural
Brass (alloy)
Metalworking
Edo (african)
Arts of africa
Coastal west africa
African art
Altar object
Benin kingdom
Ritual object
Casting (process)

credit_line: Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment


title: Virgin and Child by the Window

creator: Barthel Beham

subjects:
Engraving
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: Job Conversing with His Friends

creator: Sebald Beham

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Job Conversing with His Friends

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns Speaking to His Mother


title: The Virgin with the Pear


title: Capital with Man Fighting a Lion (recto); Man Riding a Griffin (verso)

creator: Italian; possibly Lombardy or Tuscany

medium: Marble

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural sculpture
Italy
Man
Architectural fragment
Architectural
Architectural detail
Architechture
Figure
Mythology
Mythological figure
Mythical
Battle
Marble
Stonework
Medieval
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Italian
Sculpture/stone
Stone
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Capital with Anointing of David

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural sculpture
Italy
Architechture
Architectural
Architectural fragment
Biblical
Religion
Religious
Religious figure
Religious scene
Marble
Stonework
Medieval
Metamorphic rock
Rock
Inorganic material
Sculpture
Italian
Sculpture/stone
Stone
Carving
Sculpting
Sculpture technique


title: The Young Monkey Showman (Wakashu sarumawashi)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych

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


title: Fidelity (Shin), from the series Five Cardinal Virtues

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Parrot Komachi, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Women Viewing Scroll Paintings of the Gods of Good Fortune

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Mirror of Elegance (Furyu kesho kagami)

creator: Tamagawa Shucho


title: Gathering spring flowers

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; nagaban, surimono

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


title: Hinazuru of the Keizetsuro

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: An Elegant Series of Amulet Paintings (Furyu nanatsume e awase): Rabbit and Cock


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as An no Heibei in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; one sheet of pentaptych


title: Actors Ichikawa Danjôrô V as Gokuin Sen’emon, Bandô Mitsugorô I as An no Heibei, and Nakamura Sukegorô II as Kaminari Shôkurô in “A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District” (“Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1780

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych


title: Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)"

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: Waitress at the Minatoya Teahouse

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (?) in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1772 (?)


title: The actor Sawamura Sojuro lll as the lay priest Kiyomori

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa


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

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


title: Poem by Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Versions of the Six Immortal Poets (Imayo fuzoku rokkasen)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask

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


title: The View from Komagata Hall, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: Boy as Hotei, from an untitled series of children as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

creator: Kitao Shigemasa


title: The Daruma Overcoat (Haori Daruma), from "Three Pictures of Harmony (Waki sanpukutsui)"

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Onami Disguised as the Dragon Princess in the Play Saki Masuya Ume no Kachidoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: Good and Evil Influences (Zendama akudama)

creator: Eishosai Choki

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych (center sheet: 1925.2574)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Chuko Ryogoku Ori, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1790

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei


title: Actor Segawa Kikunojô III Possibly as Ono no Komachi in “Komachi Village: New Year at the Theater” (“Komachimura shibai no shôgatsu”)

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1789

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych


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

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Ghost of the Renegade Monk Seigen in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1783

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


title: The Courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato from the Yotsumeya, from the album "Comparing New Beauties of the Yoshiwara - A Mirror of Their Own Writings (Keisei shin bijin awase jikihitsu kagami)"

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Katakai in the play "Mugen no Kane Omoi no Akatsuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1746

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Begging for Alms


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788


title: The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora, Azuma Tozo III as Miura Katagai, and Otani Tokuji I as Danzaburo, in the joruri "Chidorigake Koi no Tamaboko," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1784


title: A Fashionable Female Version of the Shikisanban Dance (Furyu onna shikisanban)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hachio-maru Aratora in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774


title: An Actors' Boating Party on the Sumida River


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Female Beancake Peddler Hyugaya in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: Wakana, Part 1 (Wakana, jo), from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: Scene from the Drama "Lyric Dance of Shizuka Gozen (Taihei Shizuka Horaku no mai)"

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

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


title: Actors Segawa Kikunojô II as Reizei, Ichikawa Komazô I as Suruga no Hachirô, and Ichikawa Yaozô II as Tada no Kurando in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)

date: About 1768


title: Ox (Ushi), from the series "Twelve Hours of the Floating World (Ukiyo juni shi)"

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


title: Fukurokuju, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)"

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: Hotei, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Ukiyo shichi fukujin)"


title: Daikokuten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"


title: Tamonten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"


title: Jurojin, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)"


title: Ebisu, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)"


title: Pinks in a Porcelain Pot

creator: Artist Unknown


title: Benzaiten, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)"


title: Courtesan on White Elephant

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

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


title: A Young Woman in a Summer Shower

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono


title: The Actor Nakamura Gentaro as a woman playing battledore and shuttlecock

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

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


title: A Beauty Walking

creator: Sugimura Jihei

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


title: Man in Thatched Hut Viewing the Moon

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

medium: Woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e


title: Yamauba Breast Feeding Kintaro

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

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


title: The Waitress Ohisa of the Takashimaya


title: Woman Exhaling Smoke from a Pipe, from the series "Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon)"


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

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


title: Courtesan Reading a Letter

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo I as Sukeroku

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, urushi-e


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I holding a puppet of the Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

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


title: A Man and a Courtesan Watching a Young Man Writing, first sheet of the album "Mountain of Dyed Color, Specimens of Bedrooms (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata)"

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


title: The actor Fujimura Handayu II as Nowake no Mae in the play "Tategami Teika Kazura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1719

creator: Okumura Toshinobu

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


title: The Actors Nakamura Takesaburo as Shikishi Naishinno and Tsuruya Nanboku as Gengoro in the play "Tategami Teika Kazura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1719


title: The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I

creator: Torii Kiyoshige


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Minamoto no Yoshiie and Sodesaki Iseno I as Onoe no Mae in the play "Kaomise Junidan," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1726 (?)

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II


title: Puppeteer

creator: Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actor Bando Hikosaburo II

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I


title: Young Woman Walking Near a Stream


title: Beauty Beneath a Willow Tree

creator: Isoda Koryusai

date: Edo period, c. 1780

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Young Woman Holding a Kerria Branch (parody of Ota Dokan)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e


title: The Actor Ichikawa Raizo I as Minamoto no Yoshitsune in the play "Nihon ga Hana Hogan Biiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1761

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Summer, from the series "New Versions of Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shinpan furyu shiki no hana)"


title: The Actors Nakayama Kojuro VI (Nakamura Nakazo I) as Chidori, Sawamura Sojuro III as Shigemori, and Ichikawa Yaozo III as Yoshibei, in the shosa "Fukyoku Edo Geisha," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1785

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Courtesan Standing in Front of a Barred Window

creator: Attributed to Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, trimmed at left and right


title: Beauty Playing with Cat and Kitten

creator: Artist unknown

date: early 18th century

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


title: Visiting (Kayoi), from the series "Floating World Versions of the Seven Komachi (Ukiyo Nana Komachi)"


title: The actor Yamanaka Heikuro I as a demon

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I


title: The Actor Yamanaka Heikuro I


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji I as Asahina Saburo


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro and Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715


title: The Actor Nakamura Denkuro I


title: The Actors Tamazawa Rinya, Uemura Kohachi, and Ichikawa Monnosuke


title: Young Man Dressed as Mendicant Monk


title: The Actor Nakamura Denkuro I


title: The Actor Sakata Hangoro III as Kosodate Kannonbo (Sandai-me Sakata Hangoro no Kosodate no Kannonbo)

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e


title: The Courtesan Wakakusa of the Chojiya with Her Attendants Asano and Midori, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"


title: Three Young Women with Pets

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

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


title: Futarasan Shrine at Nikko (Nikko Futarasan jinja)

creator: Tsuchiya Koitsu


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as a Thunder Goddess in the Play Onna Narukami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1770

creator: Attributed to Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Spirit of the Monk Seigen and Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in “Courtesan in a Maple-Leaf-Pattern Over-Kimono” (“Keisei Momiji no Uchikake”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1772

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych

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


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768


title: Actors Segawa Kikunojô III as Yasukata and Iwai Hanshirô IV as Utôin Performing a Hobbyhorse Dance (Harugoma odori) in “The Fifth Genji Mitsugi’s Robe (“Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode”)

date: About 1782


title: The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; diptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Atomi no Ichii in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Renegade Monk Dainichibo Soliciting Alms, in the Play Edo Meisho Midori Soga (Famous Places in Edo: A Green Soga), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shinokobe Shoji Yukihira in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo III as Shoki the Demon Queller in the Play Date Moyo Kumo ni Inazuma, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Tenth Month, 1768


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1776


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Monk Wantetsu of Okami-dani in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778


title: Actor Bandô Matatarô IV as Gempachibyôe in “Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise” (“Mutsu no hana ume no kaomise”)

date: About 1769


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Aza-maru in the Play Yui Kanoko Date-zome Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1774


title: The Actor Nakajima Mihoemon II as Shujaku Tenno in the Play Masakado Kammuri no Hatsuyuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

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


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Baramon no Kichi in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I in the Role of an Evil Courtier, Probably Prince Takahito, Illegitimate Son of Emperor Takakura, Disguised as Aso no Matsuwaka, in Part One of the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga (Green Willow Soga of Erotic Design), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Thirteenth Day of the Second Month, 1775


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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1783


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Renegade Monk Zenjibo Disguised as Dainichibo in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kikuchi Hyogo Narikage in the Play Katakiuchi Chuko Kagami, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; second-from-left sheet in a four-sheet composotion


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Street-Walker Otsuyu in the Play Cho Chidori Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo Disguised as a Beggar in the Play Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1776


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Lady Shizuka (Shizkua Gozen) Disguised as Tamazusa in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

date: early 1780s


title: Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Fox-Wife from Furui in “First Performance Day of the Izu Calendar” (“Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu”)


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Courtesan Toyama in the Play Koi Nyobo Somewake Tazuna, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1777


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Misao Disguised as a Komuso in the Play Kosode-gura no Tekubari, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1772 (?)


title: The Actor Yoshizawa Iroha I as Princess Yosooi (Yosooi Hime) in the Play Kikujido Shuen no Iwaya, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1779


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Courtesan Kewaizaka no Shosho in the Play Sono Kyodai Fuji no Sugatami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1776


title: Mount Hôrai

creator: Kano Isen'in

date: About 1802–16

medium: Pair of handscrolls; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art


title: The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Shinozuka Goro Sadatsuna 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 the footman Gunsuke and Sakata Sajuro I as Yamaga no Sashiro in the play "Iro Jogo Mitsugumi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1765


title: Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Shinagawa (Shinagawa shiohigari no zu)

creator: Furuyama Moromasa

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


title: Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook (Soshiarai Komachi)

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban


title: Lady Tamamushi raising a fan target

creator: Attributed to Sugimura Jihei

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


title: The Actors Arashi Ryuzo and Morita Kanya VIII

medium: Ink and color on paper

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


title: Otafuku Throwing Black Beans to Chase Away the Demons on New Year's Eve (Senmen Otafuku zu)

medium: Fan print, stencil-printed color on paper


title: The actor Sakata Hangoro III as Fujikawa Mizuemon

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Matsushita Mikinoshin


title: The actor Ichikawa Omezo as the manservant Ippei


title: The actors Ichikawa Tomiemon (R) as Kanisaka Toma and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III (L) as the Gion Prostitute Onayo


title: The actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Arts of asia 100


title: Tennojiya Riko (The actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as the maid Ebizo Okane of the Ouchiya [actually Iwate, wife of Sadato])

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The actors Segawa Tomisaburo II (R) as Yadorigi, wife of Ogishi Kurando, and Nakamura Manyo (L) as the servant Wakakusa


title: Naritaya Sansho (The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI as Arakawa Taro Takesada)


title: Hamamuraya Roko


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

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban, nishiki-e


title: Koraiya Kinsho


title: Ichikawa Yaozo lll in the Role of Fuwa no Banzaemon Shigekatsu

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Kinokuniya Tosshi (The actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Kujaku Saburo Narihira)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (Ichikawa Ebizo no Kudo Saemon Suketsune)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban,nishiki-e


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Wealthy Bumpkin from Yamato, Actually Magoemon of Ninokuchi Village (Yondai-me Matsumoto Koshiro no Yamato no Yabo Daijin, jitsuwa Ninokuchi-mura Magoemon)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e


title: Sakata Hangoro III in the Role of Yahazu no Yadahei


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Nagoya Sanza Motoharu (Sandai-me Sawamura Sojuro no Nagoya Sanza Motoharu)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as the Sparrow Seller Bunji Yasukata (Sandai-me Ichikawa Yaozo no suzume uri Bunji Yasukata)


title: The actor Sakakiyama Sangoro as Princess Odae, the daughter of the Senior Regent Michinaga


title: The actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Abe no Sadato in the guise of the itinerant monk Ryozan


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Boatman Minagawa Shin'emon of Reisengasaki in Kamakura, Actually Hata Rokurozaemon Tokiyoshi (Yondai-me Matsumoto Koshiro no Kamakura Reizengasaki no sendo Minagawa Shin'emon, jitsuwa Hata Rokurozaemon)


title: The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI as Fuwa no Bansaku


title: The actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Gorobei


title: The Actor Sakata Hangoro III as the Groom Abumizuri no Iwazo in Koriyama, Actually Kurisaka Taro Tomonori (SAndai-me Sakata Hangoro no Koriyama no Umakata Abumizuri no Iwazo, jitsuwa Kurisaka Taro Tomonori)


title: The actors Ichikawa Omezo I (R) as Tomita Hyotaro and Otani Oniji III (L) as Kawashima Jibugoro


title: The actors Nakajima Wadaemon (R) as Bodara Chozaemon and Nakamura Konozo (L) as Gon of the boat-keeper Kanagawaya


title: The Noda Jewel River, from a hexaptych depicting the Six Jewel Rivers

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban hexaptych


title: The actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Tanabe Bunzo


title: The Actors Yamashita Mangiku, Iwai Hanshiro IV, and Iwai Kumesaburo from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers

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


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V and Ichikawa Ebizo IV, from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III and his attendant making cermonial rounds at New Year's


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III, from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers

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


title: The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo III as Shiragiku, Ichikawa Danjuro V as the puppeteer Dekurokubei, and Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, in the joruri "Shinobukoi Yanagi no Katsura Otoko," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1785


title: The Actors Nakayama Kojuro VI (Nakamura Nakazo I) as Hatchotsubute no Kiheiji, Otani Hiroji III as Miura Arajiro, Ichikawa Yaozo III as Akugenta Yoshihira, Sawamura Sojuro III as Taira no Shigemori, in the shosa "Fukyoku Edo Geisha," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1785


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

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych (left sheet: 1925.2653)

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


title: A Ferry on the Sumida River

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych


title: In a Pleasure House in Shinagawa (Shinagawa no rojo)

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock prints; two sheets from an oban triptych


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

creator: Ichirakutei Eisui


title: Kneeling actor and standing beauty holding a tray of clothes, from the series "Fuji in Summer Matched with Beautiful Women (Natsu no Fuji bijin awase)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya, from the series Six Flowery Immortals of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin rokkasen)


title: Misayama of the Chojiya, from the series Beauties of the Licensed Quarter (Kakuchu bijin kurabe)

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: Hanamurasaki of the Kadotamaya, from the series Six Flowery Immortals of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin rokkasen)


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

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: Scene at the Ishido Mansion (Ishido yakata no dan), from the series "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Moto, a Waitress of the Yoshidaya, and the Geisha Mizue

creator: Eishosai Choki


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Miyukinosuke, Segawa Kikunojo III as Hatsune-hime, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ninnaji no Saibei, in the joruri "Shitenno Oe no Yamairi," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1785


title: The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Onami and Menami, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"


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

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: The actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (R) as Ohan of the Shinanoya and Bando Hikosaburo III (L) as Obiya Choemon

creator: Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (?) in the Play Bunshin Sugatami Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1765 (?)


title: Actor Ichikawa Raizô I as Hanakawado no Sukeroku in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

date: About 1764

medium: Color woodblock prints; hosoban diptych (?)

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


title: The Flying Tea Ceremony Kettle (Tonda Chagama)

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: The Young Horseman


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


title: Kogo no Tsubone and Minamoto no Nakakuni

date: early 1760s

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


title: The Lantern Shop

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban diptych


title: Enoshima, from the series "Mount Fuji in the Four Seasons (Shiki no Fuji)"


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the ghost of Yatsuhashi, Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as the ghost of Seigen, in the play "Sono Omokage Matsu ni Sakura," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1783

medium: Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression


title: The Actor Ichikawa Raizo I

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya with Her Attendants Yoshino and Tatsuta, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Minamoto no Yoshiie, in the play "Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori," performed at the Morita Theater in the eleventh month, 1778 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actors Ichikawa Masugoro as Kusunoki Masatsura and Hayakawa Denshiro as Shinzaemon in the play "Hachijin Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1727

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II

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


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


title: Young Couple Under an Umbrella in the Snow

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Dragon and tiger

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, shomen-ban


title: Young Woman Hanging a Painting

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: The insistent lover, from an untitled series of erotic prints

creator: Sugimura Jihei

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


title: Orchid and Bird

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


title: Around the Kotatsu

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych

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


title: Sugawara Michizane crossing to China (Toto Tenjin)

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e


title: Toraya: Arashi Ryuzo II as the monk Tojibo in the play "Hatsu Akebono Kaomise Soga," from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro IV as Sanshodayu (left), in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: Preparing Fish

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


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

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


title: Rain in the Fifth Month (Samidare)

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu


title: Recital on a verandah overlooking Sumida River

medium: Color woodblock print; oban pentaptych


title: Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)"

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

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


title: Akashi of the Tamaya, from the series Seven Komachis of Yoshiwara (Seiro nana Komachi) (Tamaya uchi Akashi, Uraji, Shimano)


title: The Fourth Month (Shigatsu), from an untitled series of genre scenes in the twelve months, with kyoka poems


title: Act Eleven from the series "The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura Junimai Kuzuki)"

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban diptych


title: The Sixth Month (Rokugatsu), from an untitled series of genre scenes in the twelve months, with kyoka poems


title: A pair of ducks by a lotus pond

creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika


title: Chrysanthemum Boy leaning on a rock, from the series "Five Prints on Longevity (Kotobuki goban no uchi)

creator: Yanagawa Shigenobu I

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: A visit to a shrine, from the series "Twelve Scenes of Popular Customs (Fuzoku juni tsui)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: Beauty Admiring a Bush Warbler Singing in a Plum Tree

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Takinaka Utagawa (Kasen)

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II


title: The Moon Beyond Shinagawa (Shinagawa mikoshi no tsuki), from the series "One Hundred Views of Musashi Province (Musashi hyakkei no uchi)"


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


title: Ferry on the Rokugo River

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kumenosuke and Takinaka Hidematsu I as Oume, from "Sharing an Umbrella: A Triptych (Aigasa sanpukutsui)"

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


title: Crossing Nihonbashi Bridge


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


title: A Test of Skill - the Headwaters of Amorousness (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami): Osan and Mohei


title: The Courtesan Hanaogi of the Ogiya

creator: Ichirakutei Eisui


title: Two Actors in a Drama

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

date: About 1715

medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e, ōban


title: View of Hashiba in the Eastern Capital (Toto Hashiba no zu), from the series "Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto no zu)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

date: early 1830s


title: View of Mitsumata in the Eastern Capital (Toto Mitsumata no zu), from the series "Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto no zu)"


title: Throwing the Shuttle

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


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


title: Egrets in the Snow

creator: Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


title: High-Ranking Courtesans of the Three Capitals - A Set of Three (Santo tayu sanpukutsui)

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


title: Iwai Kumesaburo in the Role of Lady Tomoe

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Actor Ichikawa Komazô II as Sukeroku

creator: Attributed to Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1793 or about 1797

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


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


title: Nakayama Tomisaburo

creator: Enkyo


title: The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban

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


title: Yosooi of the Matsubaya, from the series Selections from Six Houses in Yoshiwara (Seiro rokkasen) (Matsubaya Yosooi)


title: An Arrangement of Morning Glories


title: An Arrangement of Valerian and Chinese Bell Flowers


title: Young man and his party crossing a stream before Mt. Fuji


title: The Courtesans Misayama of the Chojiya and Wakana of the Matsubaya Parading under Cherry Blossoms

creator: Gokyo

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych


title: Six actors dreaming of their roles, from the series "Spring Plays of 1804: The Pillow of Kontan (Koshi haru kyogen kontan no makura)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban hexaptych


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms from a Teahouse on Asuka Hill

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock prints; 2 right sheets of oban triptych, keyblock and color impressions

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


title: A Banquet in a Pleasure House on the Bank of the Okawa (Okawa bata giro jo no yusen)

creator: Angyusai Enshi

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: Gathering Salt Water at the Beach

medium: Ink and red pigment on paper

subjects:
Japan
Drawing (visual works)
Paper (fiber product)
Asian art
Print

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund


title: The First Month (Sho gatsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"


title: Tamashima River in Hizen Province (Tamashimagawa, Hizen), from the series "Fashionable Mirrors of Famous Places (Furyu meisho kagami)"

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: The Actor Akizuki Sampei from Osaka Standing on a Galloping Horse (right), in the Play Dai Kyokuba

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Osada no Taro (?) in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1768 (?)


title: Young Woman at a Loom


title: Mimosuso River in Ise Province (Mimosusogawa, Ise), from the series "Fashionable Mirrors of Famous Places (Furyu meisho kagami)"


title: The Cloth-fulling Jewel River in Settsu Province (Settsu Toi no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

creator: Rekisentei Eiri


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


title: The Jewel River of Bush Clovers in Omi Province (Omi Hagi no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers


title: The Koya Jewel River in Kii Province (Kii Koya no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers


title: Procession of a Daimyo

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

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


title: The Actor Bando Yasosuke


title: Two Young Attendants on New Year's Day from the series "Seven Women as the Gods of Good Fortune for the Hanagasa Poetry Club (Hanagasaren shichifukujin)"

creator: Katsukawa Shuntei


title: Spring: Soaking Rice Grains (Haru: tanehitashi no zu), No. 1 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)"

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

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


title: Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: Winter: Storing Rice (Fuyu: kome osame no zu), No. 4 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)"


title: Autumn: Harvesting Rice (Aki: inekari no zu), No. 3 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)"


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Wakano as Oyuki in the play "Honen Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1723

creator: Okumura Toshinobu


title: The Actor Kirinami Onoe as Osasa in the play "Hachijin Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1727

creator: Okumura Masanobu


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

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


title: The Four Seasons in the South (Minami Shiki): Summer Scene


title: Woman Holding a Round Fan

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kumenosuke in the play "Nanohana Akebono Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the second month, 1741


title: Pleasure-Boating on the Sumida River

medium: Color woodblock print; ôban triptych


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

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Momozono in the play "Katakiuchi Mogami no Inabune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the seventh month, 1759

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Tezuka no Taro Mitsumori Disguised as the Monkey Trainer Tonkichi Tochibei, in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Seigen in the Play Ise-goyomi Daido Ninen, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fall, 1768

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: Shingen and Kenshin, from the series "Mirrors of Warriors in Fashionable Parodies (Furyu yatsushi musha kagami)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Tokaiji no Bansho, from the series "Shinagawa Hakkei (Eight Views of Shinagawa)"


title: Act Six: Yoichibei's House from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)


title: Act Eight: Bridal Journey from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)


title: Act Two: The House of Kakogawa Honzo from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)


title: The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo II in an Unidentified Role

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

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


title: Ohan and Choemon, from the series "Fashonable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"


title: Act VIII (Hachidanme), from the series "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"


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


title: Komurasaki and Gonpachi, from the series "Fashonable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"


title: Sankatsu and Hanshichi, from the series "Fashionable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"


title: Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Fashionable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"


title: Koharu and Jihei, from the series "Fashionable Patterns in Utamaro Style (Ryuko moyo Utamaro-gata)"


title: Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo matsu)"

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine)

date: early 19th century


title: Woman Viewing Cherry Blossoms

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Young Woman Throwing a Ball at a Young Man


title: Washing Clothes

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


title: The Courtesan Komurasaki of the Tamaya


title: Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

date: About 1803


title: Geisha of the West District


title: The Style of a Feudal Lord’s Household (Yashiki-fu), from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tosei fuzoku tsu)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Nigiwai Suehiro Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the first month, 1721 (?)

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

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


title: Ichikawa Danjuro Vl

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo and Nakamura Shichisaburo II as Hanbei in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Juro in the play "Hanabusa Bunshin Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1733 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke I

creator: Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu

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


title: Battledore and shuttlecock

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Koroku in the play "Furitsumu Hana Nidai Genji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1765


title: Young Woman Holding Flowers


title: Party on their way to view plum blossoms

medium: Color woodblock print; benizuri-e


title: The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I as Kyo no Jiro in the play "Fujibumi Sakae Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the second month, 1763


title: Two Women Taking a Stroll

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)


title: Girl Leaping from Kiyomizu Temple

creator: Torii Kiyotsune

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

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


title: Lovers Parting at Dawn


title: The Jewel River of Bush Clovers (Hagi no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in an Unidentified Role

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Act Eight: The Bridal Journey from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

date: early 1790s


title: Picnic in Autumn

date: late 1780s

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the Court Servant Shoheida Sadamori in the Play Masakado Kammuri no Hatsuyuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; second-from-right sheet in a four-sheet print


title: Two Courtesans on a Moonlit Balcony at a House of Pleasure in Shinagawa, from the series "Nan'eki Shufu"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Actors Representing the Feat of Asahina Breaking the Armer of Soga no Goro (Hirakawa-cho Yamamoto-cho kusazuribiki odori yatai) from the series The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno go-sairei)

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonaga


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Omi no Kotoda (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Bamba no Chuda (left), in the Joruri "Sono Chidori Yowa no Kamisuki" (The Plovers: Combing Hair at Midnight), from Part Two of the Play O-atsurae-zome Soga no Hinagata (A Soga Pattern Dyed to Order), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Tenth Day of the Third Month, 1774

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych

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


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

creator: Isoda Koryusai

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1771


title: The Day of Starting (Kotohajime), from the series "The Fashionable Five Days of Starting (Furyu go kotohajime)"


title: Ukifune of the Kanaya, 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: Evening Snow at Sensoji Temple (Sensoji no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Fashionable View of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"


title: The Dancing Fox

creator: Artist unknown


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


title: Hour of the Tiger [4 am], Courtesan (Tora no koku, keisei), from the series "Customs of Beauties Around the Clock (Fuzoku bijin tokei)"

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham collection


title: The Courtesans Somenosuke and Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from the series "A Mirror of Courtesans of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro yukun awase kagami)"


title: Dragon in the clouds

creator: Totoya Hokkei

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Hour of the Ox (Ushi no koku) Fukagawa Pleasure Quarter (Tatsumi), from the series "Customs of Beauties Around the Clock (Fuzoku bijin tokei)"


title: Righteousness (Gi), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信


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


title: Edo Geisha, from the series "A Guide to Women's Contemporary Styles (Tosei onna fuzoku tsu)"


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Courtesan Toyama of Tsuruga in the Play Keisei Tsuki no Miyako, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1775


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776


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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kusunoki Masayuki Disguised as Uji no Joetsu, in the Play Go Taiheiki Shirishi-banashi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780


title: The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Tsuchiya Umegawa Disguised as the Female Sumo Wrestler Oyodo (?) in the Play Naniwa no Onna-zumo (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Sixth Month, 1770 (?)

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho


title: In the Style of a Young Man (Wakashu fu), Left Sheet of Triptych (Sanpukutsui hidari)

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

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


title: A procession of women holding shimadai decorations

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Goten Hill

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych (right sheet: 1925.3091)


title: Admiring the wisteria at Kameido Shrine

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban dipytch (right sheet: 1941.9)

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


title: Ushi-no-gozen, from the series "Famous Places of Edo (Edo meisho)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Two Entertainers and a Maid

creator: Attributed to Kitao Shigemasa


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


title: A Fan Suggesting a Dispersed Storm (Sensu no seiran) from the series "Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hayano Kampei in the Play Kanadehon Chushin Najori no Kura, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1780


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ippei (?) in the Play Koi Nyobo Somewake Tazuna (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1778 (?)

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a courtesan (right) and Sawamura Sojuro III as Oyamada Taro (?) disguised as Tarosaku of Oyamada Village (left) in the play "Azuma no Mori Sakae Kusunoki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1779

medium: Color woodblock print; narrow ai-tanzakuban diptych


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Hitomaru Disguised as the Geisha Oshun in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783

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


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

creator: Keisen Eisen


title: The Actor Matusmto Koshiro IV as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Mizoro no Sabu in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

creator: Katsukawa Shunjo


title: Shinto priest performing the seaweed-gathering ritual

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


title: Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Mori no Rammaru in “Muromacho Chronicle in Kana Script” (“Kanagaki Muromachi bundan”)

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1791

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban triptych


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Hatakeyama Shigetada in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789

creator: Katsukawa Shunsen


title: Fudo Pass on the Mikuni Road in Kozuke Province (Joshu Mikuni goe Fudo toge), from the series "Famous Places in the Provinces (Shokoku meisho)"

medium: Color woodblock print; horizontal otanzaku


title: The Jewel River of Plovers in Mutsu Province (Mutsu Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

creator: Rekisentei Eiri

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: View of Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima no kei), from the series "Eastern Capital (Toto)"

creator: Shotei Hokuju

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: No. 31: View of Lake Suwa from Shiojiri Pass (Sanjuichi: Shiojiri toge Suwa no kosui chobo), from the series "[Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido"

creator: Keisai Eisen


title: No. 3 - Autumn: Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series "Pleasures of the Four Seasons (Shiki no asobi)"

creator: Okumura Toshinobu

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