title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue in the Play Yuki Nazuna Saiwai Soga, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1787


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Ume no Yoshihei in the Play Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1796

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych? (left sheet: 1925.2502)

country: Japan

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

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Actors Nakamura Utaemon I as Seigen (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Shimizu Tonoinosuke Kiyoharu (left), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kikuchi Hyogo Narikage in the Play Katakiuchi Chuko Kagami (Vendetta: A Model of Loyalty and Filial Duty), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifth Day of the Sixth Month, 1770


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Hitachi in Part Two of the Play Wada Sakamori Osame no Mitsugumi (Wada's Carousal: The Last Drink With a Set of Three Cups), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Ninth Day of the Second Month, 1771


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II in a pre-performance celebration of the play "Soga Monogatari," performed at the Morita Theater in the second month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of hosoban triptych


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Goi no Sho Munesada with a Deer, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji (Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

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


title: The Waltz

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of three

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

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

credit_line: Bequest of Blanche S. Guggenheim, 1953


title: Histamenon of Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-55)

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Dish

date: 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted on white slip

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966


title: Dish with tree, flowers, and birds

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain Flowers Trees

credit_line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995


title: [Two Young Men Outdoors, One Seated, the Other on the Arm of the Chair]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Autumn Moon at Ishiyama, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Covered Vegetable Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Sunset Magazine, April

creator: William Stevens

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2015


title: Bronze bust of a young satyr

date: first half of the 2nd century CE

medium: Bronze, silver, copper

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: [William W. Briley's First Photography Studio, Flushing, Michigan]

creator: William W. Briley

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: C. Frank Genins, Center Field, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Glass serving dish

date: second half of the 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass, greenish colorless

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012


title: Mlle. Courabt, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Goblet with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Sallet

creator: Hans Blarer the Younger

medium: Steel

country: German, Basel

subjects:
Helmet
German, basel

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: Despair

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Back pillar (?), Aten cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Figure of Elephant

medium: Nephrite, light sage-green with a light bluish tint

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Netsuke of Monkey on a Bamboo Fan

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Near Last Camp on Ross Fork, Snake River, Lander Wagon Road, Oregon

creator: Henry Hitchings

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white Bristol board

subjects:
American
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Elisabeth S. Rothschild, 1996


title: Disk Ornament

date: before 16th century (?)

medium: Silver

country: Peru (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Decorated Roman alphabet

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth

date: 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. John D. Gordon Gift, in memory of William M. Ivins Jr., 1963


title: Compartmented stamp seal

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Rey. Claude. 23 ans, né le 24/5/70 au Creusot (Saone & Loire). Ébéniste. Anarchiste. 12/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Saint John sees the Four Horsemen, from the Apocalyspe

creator: Jean Duvet

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

date: 13th–18th century

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Louksor, Dattiers et Jardin de l'Expédition du Louksor

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Wine Glass

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed yellow glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Coin Weight

date: 10th–11th century

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Beaker

creator: Jacques Besnier

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fork

date: first half 18th century

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 20r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Tankard

creator: William J. Elsworth

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1939


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Olga Raggio, 2002


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Oume, Wife of Kisaku, in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed a the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

creator: Ippitsusai Buncho

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as Ninja Aso no Matsuwaka in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章

date: About 1768


title: Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô II as Shunkan and Azuma Tôzô II as Oyasu in “Outing to Pick Pine Seedlings on the Rat-Day of theNew Year” (“Hime komatsu neno hi asobi”)


title: Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô II as Chinese Sage Huangshi Gong and Ichikawa Danzô III as Chinese Warrior Zhang Liang in “At Mt. Otoko, a Trial of Strength in Drawing the Bow” (“Otokoyama yunzei kurabe”)


title: The Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1769

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1772


title: Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shirotae

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川 春章

date: About 1769


title: Actor Ôtani Hiroji III Probably as Ukishima Daihachi in “Comparing Merits: Festival Day at Soma” (“Shinasadame Sôma no mombi”)

date: About 1770


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Soga no Juro Sukenari Disguised as the Proefessional Jester Senraku (?) in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1769 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1772 (?)

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


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

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych

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


title: The Actors Arashi Hinaji I (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II (left), as Princess Sakura (Sakura Hime) (?) and Shimizu Tonoinosuke (?), in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1769 (?)


title: The Actor Arashi Sangoro II as Asahina Saburo in the Play Iro Maki-e Soga no Sakazuki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Moshio in the Play Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Osaku (?) in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Kasaya Sankatsu (?) in the Play Hana no Gosho Konegen Butai (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1772 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzaburo II as Usui no Sadamitsu (?) in the Play Edo Katagi Hikeya Tsunasaka (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1772 (?)


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sagami Jiro Disguised as Ambaiyoshi Gorohachi in the Play Oyoroi Ebido Shinozuka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1772


title: Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV Performs the Triple Umbrella Dance in “Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi’s Five Characters” (“Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji”)

date: About 1771

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


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II in an Unidentified Role

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


title: The Actor Segawa Yujiro (or Segawa Kikunojo III) in an Unidentified Role


title: Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Shimokōbe Shōji Yukihira and Segawa Yūjiro I as Matsukaze, Sister of Togashi no Saemon, in “Your Favorite Play: The Subscription List” (Gohiiki Kanjinchō)

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


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Nakaomi Katsumi Disguised as the Farmer Datta no Nizo, in the Play Shitenno-ji Nobori Kuyo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1773


title: The Actor Segawa Yujiro I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Onoe Tamizo I as Sotoku Taishi (?) Disguised as a Young Building Worker, in the Play Shitenno-ji Nobori Kuyo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kitsuji III as Murasame in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in a "Shak-kyo Odori" (Stone Bridge Dance), in the Play Onna Aruji Hatsuyuki no Sekai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Konoshita Hyokichi (?) (right), and Sakata Hangoro II as Matsunaga Daizen Hisahide (?) (left), in the Play Gion Sairei Shinko Ki (?), Perfomred at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Odai, an Eboshi (Hat) Seller, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Spirit of a Mandarin Duck (Oshidori) Disguised as Tagasode, in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

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


title: The Actor Arashi Hinaji I as Hananoi in the Play Gosho-zakura Horikawa Youchi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1773

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Prince Koreakira, Younger Brother of Emperor Go-Toba, in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho (Your Favorite Play Kanjincho [The Subscription List]), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1773


title: The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Gokumon Shobei in the Play Sugata no Hana Kurofune Zukin, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Ninth Month, 1774


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Waitress Otake in the Play Chigo Suzuri Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1777


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Naoe in the Play Tsuma Mukae Koshiji no Fumizuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1780


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Courtesan Kisewata (Tagasode) (?) in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1775 (?)


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Miura no Katagai Disuigsed as the Nun Narukami, in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1780

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


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as the Potter Tsuchihei in the Play Higashiyama Momiji no Kadode, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1778


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Prince Koreakira (?) in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

medium: Color woodblock print; large hosoban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Stone Image of Fudo Myoo in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Ageha no Chokichi Disguised as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kaido Ichi Yawaragi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1778

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


title: The Actor Segawa Yujiro I as Osai, a Female Hairdresser, in the Play Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1776


title: The Actor Nakajima Kanzaemon III as Yaguchi no Karasu-baba in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1777


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lady-in-Waiting Suho Disguised as Tsunokuniya Tsuna, in the Play Shitenno Tonoi no Kisewata, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III (right) as Ochiyo, and Bando Mitsugoro I (left) as the Greengrocer Hambei, in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1781


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Sakon-gitsune in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1775

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Tomomori Disguised as Tokaiya Gimpei, in the Play Yoshitsune Sembon-zakura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1777


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Kojoro-gitsune Disguised as the Florist Okiku in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Honcho-maru Tsunagoro (?) in the Play Hono Nitta Daimyojin (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1777 (?)


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Mitsuogiya Usukumo in the Play Shida Choja-bashira, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1781


title: The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Kobayashi no Asahina Saburo in the Play Kuruwagayoi Komachi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1781


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danzo IV as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Chigo Suzuri Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1777


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kume no Heinaizaemon Disguised as the Street Fortune-teller Kosaka Jinnai, in the Play Kotobuki Banzei Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1783

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


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Shirabyoshi Dancer in Musume Dojo-ji in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1783


title: The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (right), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Wappa no Kikuo (left) in the Play Iro Moyo Aoyagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1775

creator: Katsukawa Shunko I


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Hanako, the Daughter of Koshiba Kamon, Disguised as a Yotaka (Low-class Prostitute), in the Play Kotobuki Banzei Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1783

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actors Ichikawa Raizo II as Kojiro Masahira (right) and Ichikawa Danzo IV as Doi no Yataro (left), in the Play Kaomise Ama no Iwato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Tambaya Suketaro in the Play On'ureshiku Zonji Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1790


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V, Probably as Ise no Saburo Disguised as Sanjo Uemon, Leader of a Robber Gang, in Part Two of the Play Fude-hajime Kanjincho (First Calligraphy of the New Year: Kanjincho [The Subscription List]), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1784


title: The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Yoroya Takiemon in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

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


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III in an Unidentified Role

date: late 1780s


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role


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


title: The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Osan in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Shiragiku in the Dance Sequence "Shinobu Uri" in the Play Hatsuhana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1785


title: The Actor Yoshizawa Ayame IV as Yadorigi, the Sister of Nikaido Shinanosuke, Disguised as Orie, the Wife of Aoto Magosaburo, in Part Two of the Play Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachi no Ki (Looking up at Falling Snow: Thriving Potted Trees), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1778

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

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Heiji (?) in the Play Hiragana Seisuiki (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1776 (?)

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in the Play Takao Daimyojin Momiji no Tamagaki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1787


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Moshio (?) in the Play Honda Yayoi Meoto Junrei (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1778 (?)


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Yakko Nakahei Disguised as Miura Arajiro (?) from the Play Ise Heishi Eigo no Koyomi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1782 (?)


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as a Mendicant Monk (Gannin Bozu) in the Play Keisei Ide no Yamabuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1787


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Female Fortune-teller Omatsu in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781


title: The Actor Ichikawa Omezo I as Koyurugi Motomenosuke (?) in the Play Haru no Nishiki Date-zome Soga (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1790 (?)


title: The Actor Arashi Otohachi II as the Monk Hokaibo in the Play Edo Shitate Kosode Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1777


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Oshichi in the Play Junshoku Edo Murasaki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1779


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Otora in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1780


title: The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo II as Lady Masago (Masago Gozen) (?) in the Play Genji Saiko Kogane no Tachibana (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1788 (?)


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Kumenosuke in the Play Keisei Natori Soga, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Second Month, 1788


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hei Shinno Masakado in the Play Hana no O-Edo Masakado Matsuri, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1789

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Lady Yaehata in the Play Sanga no Sho Haru no Hanayome, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1787


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Okaya in the Play Yomogi Fuku Noki no Tamamizu, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Fifth Month, 1795


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Monk Seigen (?) in the Play Saikai Soga Nakamura (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1793 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Benkei in the Play Dai Danna Kanjincho, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1790


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yae (?), in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1788 (?)


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Osaku in the Play Sayo no Nakayama Hiiki no Tsurigane, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1790


title: The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III in Ceremonial Attire on the Occasion of His Return from Osaka at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1793


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as the maid Tsumagi in the play "Otokyama O-Edo no Ishizue," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1794


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Chokichi in the Play Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1796

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of triptych? (right sheet: 1925.2401)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as the Spirit of Lady Shiragiku in the Play Hatsu Midori Saiwai Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Third Month, 1791


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Yaegushi no Oroku (?) in the Play Keisei Kogane no Hakarime (?), Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1792 (?)


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hiranoya Tokubei (?) in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1792 (?)

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


title: The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Gohiiki no Hana Aikyo Soga, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the First Month, 1794

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (left: 1939.923)


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Otoma (?) in the Play Sayo no Nakayama Hiiki no Tsurigane (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1790 (?)


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

creator: Katsukawa Shunjo


title: Onoe Matsusuke I as the Ghost of the Warrior Ki no Natora, in Kiku no En Mukashi no Miyako


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Onatsu in the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1781


title: The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790

creator: Katsukawa Shunsen


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Lady Tomoe (Tomoe Gozen) in the Play Onna Musha Kiku no Sen'yoki, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as a peddler of toys

creator: Katsukawa Shunzan


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

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


title: Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as a Fashionable Young Man (Wakashu)

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchô


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kiyohime in the Play Hidakagawa Iriai-zakura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Ninth Month, 1770


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga (Soga of the Long, Hanging Sleeves in the Second Month), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Second Month, 1772


title: The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II in cloth-bleaching (Nuno sarashi) dance


title: The Shrine Dancers (Miko) Ohatsu and Onami


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769


title: The Actors Sawamura Sojuro II and Ichimura Kichigoro in Unidentified Roles


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in an Unidentified Role


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in Shakkyo Dance in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1769

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


title: Ofuji of the Yanagi Shop


title: Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as Yamaoka no Saburō, in “The Ever-Blooming Potted Tree”   (Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachino Ki)


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Kyo no Jiro Disguised as an Uiro (Panacea) Peddler from the Play Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1770


title: The Actors Nakamura Tomijuro I as Enju Disguised as the Shirbyoshi Gio (right), and Nakamura Noshio I as Goo Disguised as Hotoke Gozen (left), in the Play Miyako-zome Gio Katsugi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Princess Hitomaru (Hitormaru Hime) (?) in te Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1769 (?)


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Oiso no Tora (?) (right), and Otani Taniji (left)


title: Actors Arashi Sangorô II asMinamoto no Yoritomo and Segawa Kikunojô II as the Snow Woman in “Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums” (“Myôto- giku Izu no Kisewata”)

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The Courtesan Mitsunoto of the Hishiya House, from the series "Sanjurokkasen (Thirty-six Flowers)"


title: Nikenjaya no Bosetsu, from the series "Azuma Hakkei"


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

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e


title: The Courtesan Handayu of the Nakaomiya House of Pleasure, from the series "Fuji-bumi (Folded Love-letters)"


title: No. 5: Noda River in Mutsu Province, from the series "Six Jewel Rivers of the Floating World (Ukiyo Mu Tamagawa)"


title: Yamashita Kyonosuke as Ono no Komachi

creator: Artist unknown


title: The Actor Bando Hikosaburo II as Fujitaro, disguised as the ferryman Tomokichi, in the play "Shomei Mugen no Kane," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1767


title: The Poet Ise Looking Up at a Flock of Returning Geese, from an untitled series of eight views

date: early 1760s

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, mizu-e


title: No. 6: Tama River of Koyasan in Kii Province, from the series "Six Jewel Rivers of the Floating World (Ukiyo Mu Tamagawa)"


title: Clearing Breeze from a Fan (Ogi no seiran)

medium: Color woodblock print; koban, trimmed


title: Flower Arranging

creator: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739-1820)


title: Descending Geese in the Archery Gallery (Yokyuba no Rakugan)

creator: Attributed to Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban, trimmed


title: Crossing the Bridge at Sano

medium: Color woodblock print; koban


title: The Hand-Drum Player, from an untitled series of five musicians

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Five Young Boys Rolling a Large Snowball

creator: Attributed to Isoda Koryusai


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


title: Returning Sails at Ryogoku River (Ryogoku no kihan), from the series "Eight Parodies by Contemporary Beauties (Tosei mitate bijin hakkei)"

date: late 18th century


title: Viewing Maple Leaves (Momijigari), from the series "Dance Customs of Captivating Figures (Adesugata odori fuzoku)"


title: The Oystercatcher Dance (Miyakodori), from the series "Beautiful Dance Customs (Adesugata odori fuzoku)"


title: Two Geisha Holding a Shamisen and a Song Book


title: The Courtesan Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, 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; right sheet of double-page illustration from book


title: Enjoying the Evening Cool in Hirokoji (Hirokoji no ryosho), from the series "Eight Contemporary Views of Ryogoku (Tosei Ryogoku hakkei)"

date: late 18th/early 19th century


title: Flowers of Yamashita (Yamashita hana), from the series "Contest of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin iro kurabe)"


title: Matsukaze and Murasame

creator: Kubo Shunman 窪 俊満

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: The Ide Jewel River

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban hexaptych


title: Taking Food to Rice Planters


title: Good and Evil Influences (Zendama akudama)

creator: Eishosai Choki

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych (left sheet: 1929.737)


title: Returning from a Poetry Gathering

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (center: 1925.2571)


title: Returning from a Poetry Gathering

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych (right: 1925.2572)


title: Kan, a waitress of the Izutsuya, and the geisha Fuseya of the Ogiya


title: The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya and Her Attendants

date: early 1790s

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Osumi, a Tayu of the Tsuchiya in the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Shizuka Gozen (?)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga


title: First Meeting (Miai), from the series "Twelve Stages of Matrimony (Konrei juni shiki)"


title: The Actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Kichisaburo in the play "Junshoku Edo Murasaki," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1779

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okura no Kojoro-kitsune in the scene from the drama Moto Mishi Yuki Sakae Hachi-no-ki (Nidaime Bando Mitsugoro no Tennen no mansaku-kitsune, nidaime Ichikawa Monnosuke no Nikaido Shinanonosuke, yondaime Iwai Hanshiro no Okura no kojyoro-kitsune)

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sansho Dayu (?)


title: Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox in the Scene from the Play, Chigo Torii Tobiiri Gitsune (Nakamura Tomijuro no Hyuga no kuni Ubagatake no megitsune)


title: Morning of Iris, from the series "Five Festivals in the Pleasure Quarters (Hanakuruwa gosechi no asobi)"


title: Geese Descending in Mid Autumn (Seishu no rakugan), from the series "Eight Scenes of the Four Seasons (Shiki hakkei)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


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


title: Discovering the Address of a Husband's Lover, from the series "A Collection of Humorous Poems (Haifu yanagidaru)"


title: Yumoto, from the series "Seven Famous Hot Springs of Hakone (Hakone shichito meisho)"


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


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


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


title: Gyokkashi Eimo before Executing Calligraphy (Gyokkashi no sekisho)

medium: Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Riko with a courtesan, from an untitled series of aiban prints depicting Actors in private life

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The Courtesan Maizumi of the Daimonjiya with Her Attendants Shigeki and Naname, 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: Young Boy Wearing Hakama for the First Time, from from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: Two Women and a Maid, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: The Brine Maidens of Suma, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: Kamioki, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: A Girl and Four Servants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: Going to a Picnic, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: A Young Nobleman, His Mother, and Three Servents, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: A Lady with Three Servants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: Under Umbrellas in a Shower, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


title: Buying Potted Plants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


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


title: Three Women after a Bath, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"


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


title: Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook (Soshiarai Komachi), from the series The Seven Ukiyo-e Aspects of Komachi (Ukiyo-e nana Komachi)

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1779


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


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


title: Night Rain of the Tea Stand, from the series "Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


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


title: A Mirror on a Stand Suggesting the Autumnal Moon (Kyodai no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Scenes of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"


title: The Courtesans Nioteru, Namiji, and Omi of the Ogiya


title: The Courtesans Senzan, Yasono, and Yasoji of the Chojiya

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: Five Musicians (Gonin bayashi)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban pentaptych

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


title: Two Women Waiting for a Ferry on the Sumida River


title: The First Horseback Ride of the New Year (Uma norizome), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, page from an illustrated book


title: Opening the Storehouse (Kurabiraki), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"


title: The First Garments of the New Year (Kiso hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"


title: The First Archery Practice of the New Year (Yumi hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"


title: Head of an Arab

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Charcoal and pastel

credit_line: Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020


title: Depart de la Promenade, Des Boulevard de Paris

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Portrait of a Manchu Official

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 17th or 18th century

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Jackson E. Reynolds, 1951


title: Standing Smiling Figure

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Remojadas

subjects: Remojada Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Netsuke of Octopus

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tubri

medium: Gourd, wood, reeds

country: Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Maddalena Corvina

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Design for an Inkstand

creator: Ottavio Strada

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Tumbler

medium: Glass with engraved decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: [La Comtesse in robe de piqué or as Judith (?)]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Snuffbox

medium: Gold, vernis Martin

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888-95


title: Coupé (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: (possibly) lithographic illustration from a trade journal with gum arabic.

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Scarab from Ruiu's Burial

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk; on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Plate 69 from "Los Caprichos": Blow (Sopla)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1950


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Oil lamp in the form of a bearded athlete balanced on his knees

creator: Agostino Zoppo

medium: Bronze, partially oil-gilt

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Bird

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Virgin and Child with an Apple and a Rose

medium: Elephant ivory with modern silver base

country: German

subjects: German Ivories-elephant Roses

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pendant, spear point

medium: Silver

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


title: Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

creator: Gotō Mitsutaka (Enjō)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver, gold

subjects:
Sword furniture
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Andalusia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: First Part, the Departure

creator: Célestin Nanteuil

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Vase fragment

date: ca. 4000 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Neolithic, Nemea

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, nemea

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Portrait of an officer

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Mother-of-pearl, ribbon

subjects:
Natural substance
Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Drawing After an Antique Tabouret

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Neptune and Amymone

creator: Jean Claude Danzel

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: late 9th–early 8th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1989


title: Josie Baker as "The Terrapin," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Isleworth (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 63)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: January 1, 1819

medium: Etching and mezzotint; third state of four (Finberg)

credit_line: Gift of Miss Mary W. Tweed, 1929


title: Amulet Case

date: 11th century

medium: Silver; cast, gilded, and inlaid with niello

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, The Friends of the Islamic Department Fund, and Richard Ettinghausen and Edward Ablat Gifts, 1978


title: Priest's Stole

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Ornamental plaque

medium: Amber with incised decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Amber
China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Card Number 510, Miss Schwartz, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on paper laid over silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: One of a Pair of Fan-Shaped Hanging Wall Vases

date: late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with overglaze enamels and gold (Hizen ware, Ko Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000


title: Horizontal Panel Design with a Sphinx, Two Putti and a Lionesque Fantastical Creature Interspersed Between Acanthus Rinceaux.

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

date: 17th century (first half)

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Card Number 394, Nina Smith, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: The First Day of Business (Akinai hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The First Bath of the New Year (Yudono hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"


title: The First Calligraphy of the New Year (Kissho hajime), from the illustrated book "Colors of the Triple Dawn (Saishiki mitsu no asa)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban, page from an illustrated book

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


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

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Murasaki Shikibu

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1784


title: A Noble Young Lady, from the series A Bright Mirror of Feminine Manners (Onna fuzoku masukagami)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Parody of Princess Joruri and Ushiwakamaru

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of chuban triptych


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


title: No. 4: Chinese boys playing a raffle game, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)"


title: A Woman and Two Maids, from the series "A Mirror of Feminine Manners (Onna fuzoku masu kagami)"


title: Flowers of the Doteshita District (Dotebana), from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"

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


title: Watching the Water Festival from Azuma Bridge, from the series "Eight Precincts of the Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)"

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


title: Cooling off at Nakasu (Nakasu no suzumi), from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)"


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


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; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1934.257)

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


title: Spring Outing, 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


title: Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2657)


title: Matsuchi Hill after Snowfall

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2654)


title: Matsuchi Hill after Snowfall

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych (left sheet: 1925.2655)


title: Spring Outing to Mukojima

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Ferry on the Rokugo River


title: Women Visiting Mimeguri Shrine


title: Cherry Blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill


title: Women and Children on the Causeway at Shinobazu Pond


title: Sudden Shower at Mimeguri Shrine


title: Sudden Shower at Mimeguri Shrine

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: The Third Princess and Her Kitten, from an untitled series of court ladies


title: Visitors to Enoshima

medium: Woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych, keyblock proof impression


title: Snowy Morning in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro yuki no ashita)

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych


title: Sei Shonagon and Her Companion, from an untitled series of court ladies


title: Women Viewing a Snowy Garden from a Parlor


title: A Party in the Shinagawa Pleasure Quarters


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV and his attendant, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V and his attendant, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III with a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II and his wife, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actors Yamashita Mangiku and Otani Hiroji lll, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V and his family, from an untitled series of four prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I and Azuma Tozo, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as the Shirabyoshi Katsuragi, Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the monk Meigetsubo, and Otani Hiroji III as the monk Izayoibo, in the play "Edoganoko Musume Dojoji," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1783


title: The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Murajiro as Ben no Naishi, in the shosa "Sode Furu Yuki Yoshino Shui," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1786


title: The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Munesada, Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Sumizome, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Sekibei, in the play "Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1784


title: The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Koito, Sawamura Sojuro III as the monk Sainenbo, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as the monk Renseibo, in the shosa "Mata Saku Hana Museume Dojoji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the fourth month, 1783


title: The Actors Azuma Tozo III and Otani Tokuji, from a pentaptych of eleven actors celebrating the festival of the shrine of the Soga brothers

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


title: The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kuzunoha, Ichikawa Yaozo III as Yakanpei, and Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Abe no Doji, in the play "Ashiya Doman Ouchi Kagami," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the ninth month, 1784

medium: Color woodblock print


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko as Agemaki, and Ichikawa Ebizo as Agemaki's attendant in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1784


title: The Actors Nakamura Riko I as Tanbaya Otsuma and Ichikawa Yaozo III as Furuteya Hachirobei, in the joruri "Sakamachi Yoi no Yotsutsuji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1785


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV with his family, from an untitled series of four prints showing Actors in private life


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Goro and Segawa Kikunojo III as Tsukisayo, in the play "Nanakusa Yosooi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1782


title: Akiba, from the series "Three Evenings at Spots Famous for Snow Viewing (Meisho yukimi sanseki)"

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho


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


title: Out for a Walk


title: Snow, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"


title: Three Women at the Base of a Sacred Pine Tree

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


title: Moon, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"


title: Flowers, from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers of the Floating World (Ukiyo setsugekka)"


title: Three Women near Rice Paddies


title: Women Visiting an Inari Shrine

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet of oban triptych (left: 1925.2708)


title: Parody of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

medium: Woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych, keyblock proof impression


title: Women Visiting an Inari Shrine

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from oban triptych (right: 1925.2707)


title: Rabbit-Ear Irises in Autumn, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Doll Festival, from the series "Amusements of the Five Festivals (Gosetsu asobi)"


title: The Tanabata Festival, from the series "Amusements of the Five Festival Days (Gosetsu asobi)"

date: About 1790

medium: Color woodblock print; chūban


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

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Summer Bush Clover (Natsuhagi), from the series Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)

creator: Katsukawa Shunchō

date: About 1792


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


title: Mount Goten, from the illustrated book "Statue of Fugen (Fugen-zo)"

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

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


title: Narcissus in Winter, from the series "Choicest Odes upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)"


title: Women on a Balcony of a Yoshiwara Teahouse


title: Scene from the Play "Imoseyama"

date: late 1780s


title: Picking Flowers at Kumano Junisha Shrine in Tsunohazu


title: A Picnic Party


title: Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet? of oban triptych (center: 1925.2725)


title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in Street Attire (by Shun'ei) Conversing with Two Women (by Shuncho)

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: The Waitress Okita of the Naniwaya


title: Benten Shrine in Shinobazu Pond

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet? of oban triptych (right: 1925.2724)


title: Beauty and a White Dog at a Shrine

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e


title: Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow


title: Two Komuso


title: The Heron Maiden


title: Hanging Up a Mosquito Net


title: The Waitress Osen of the Kagiya Teahouse


title: Courtesan with her Pet


title: Osen of the Kagiya teahouse and an assistant reading a novelette


title: Woman Wearing Black Hood


title: Young Man Dressed as a Mendicant Monk


title: Courtesan on Parade in Falling Snow


title: The Third Princess and Her Pet Kitten


title: The Basket Hat


title: Young Woman Dressed as a Mendicant Monk


title: Woman with Pet Monkey


title: Lovers under an Umbrella in the Snow


title: The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)"


title: Beauty Adjusting her Hairpin


title: Parody of Act VII of "The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"


title: Woman Playing the Shamisen


title: Courtesan on Parade

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


title: Woman Opening Umbrella as Thunder Approaches


title: Young Woman Walking in Snow


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Nun Seigen


title: Two Sages Gazing at a Beauty Treading Cloth (parody of Kume Sennin)

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


title: Daoist Immortals Spying on a Young Beauty


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


title: The Love Letter


title: Young Woman Holding a Fan


title: The Koya Jewel River (Koya no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)"


title: The Jewel River at Ide (Ide no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)"


title: Two Courtesans

creator: Isoda Koryusai


title: Falcon at Sunrise

creator: Attributed to Isoda Koryusai


title: The Courtesan Nanaaya of the Kadokanaya and Her Attendant


title: Couple Sharing an Umbrella Under the Snow


title: Young Man with a Lantern Walking in Snow


title: Woman and Child Under a Parasol


title: Young Woman with Umbrella Walking in Snow


title: Courtesan Playing a Hand Drum


title: The Courtesan Kaoru of Chojiya Looking Down at a Love Letter on the Floor


title: The Courtesans Chozan of the Chojiya, Hanaogi of the Ogiya, and Matsunoi of the Matsubaya


title: Young Man with Umbrella Knocking on Gate in Snow


title: Eavesdropping


title: Young Woman in Court Attire Receiving Letter from Kneeling Man


title: Greeting the Rising Sun on New Year's Day


title: Young Man Carrying a Girl Sees her Reflection in the Water


title: Parody of the Third Princess and Her Pet Cat


title: Two Dancers


title: Looking through the Gate


title: Lovers Under a Cherry Tree


title: Young Woman Returning a Kite to a Young Man


title: Attracting her attention


title: Two Young Women with Umbrella Caught in Rainstorm


title: Young Woman with Pet Monkey


title: Feeding the Carp at Kameido


title: Golden Pheasant on a Pine Tree above Peonies and Waterfall


title: Courtesan Standing Behind Screen and Young Man Smoking


title: Young Woman Looking out from a Parlor


title: Young Woman Feeding a Rat


title: Young Woman Hanging a Mosquito Net as Cat Plays at Her Feet


title: Couple Conjuring Up a Horse and Rider (parody of Tekkai [Chinese: Li Tieguai] and Chokaro [Chinese: Zhang Guo Lao])


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


title: Waiting for Her Lover


title: Two Itinerant Musicians under a Willow Tree


title: Parody of Matsukaze dancing beneath Yukihira's robe


title: Two Courtesans of the Iseya


title: Young Woman and Boy on Veranda

creator: Masunobu

date: c. early 1770s


title: Waitress at a Seaside Teahouse

creator: Katsukawa Shunko

date: late 18th century

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: The sisters Matsukaze and Murasame on the shores of Suma

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国


title: Courtesan and her Attendant under Cherry Tree

creator: Chokosai Eisho


title: Couple Walking under Willow Tree

creator: Naka Kuninobu


title: Love-Smitten Demons


title: Geisha Carrying a Parasol under a Willow Tree


title: Parody of act VII of the play "Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"


title: Courtesans Conversing through a Mosquito Net


title: Ochiyo and Hanbei

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


title: Courtesan Walking Under a Willow Tree on a Breezy Day


title: Woman under Windblown Wisteria


title: Woman Cooling off After a Bath


title: Woman Admiring Morning Glories while Brushing Her Teeth


title: Parody of Kanzan and Jittoku


title: Geisha and Maid on a Balcony Overlooking the Bay


title: The Pekingese


title: Two Geisha Walking under a Cherry Tree


title: Two Women Viewing Cherry Blossoms


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

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonaga


title: Woman Walking under a Store Sign


title: Young Woman with Symbols of the First Dream of the New Year

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


title: The Shrine Maiden Osute of the Tomigaoka Shrine (Tomigaoka miko Osute)


title: Geisha and Her Maid Carrying a Shamisen Box


title: Woman Wearing Black Hood in Front of the Hatsutaka Teahouse


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as a woman holding a hairpin

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu I


title: Young woman entering a room


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II


title: Young man holding umbrella and lantern


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the nun Seigen


title: Woman dressing after a bath


title: Young Woman Walking on a Windy Day

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu


title: Leaping from Kiyomizu Temple

date: late 1750s


title: Abalone Diver


title: Praying for Rain Komachi (Amagoi Komachi)

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1755

medium: Color woodblock print (benizuri-e); hashira-e


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Ushiwakamaru

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


title: Two Women at a Wayside Tea Booth

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)


title: Young Couple under Cherry Tree


title: Courtesan and Her Attendant on a Balcony Overlooking River


title: Courtesan Admiring Morning Glories while Cleaning Her Teeth


title: Women Washing Clothes at Well


title: The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya


title: The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo I as Kiyo-hime in the Play Hanagatami Kazaori Eboshi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Third Month, 1774

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章


title: Seven Gods of Good Fortune in a Treasure Ship

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


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

creator: Attributed to Kitao Shigemasa


title: A Chushingura Parody

medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e (pillar print)


title: Young Couple Dressed as Mendicant Monks


title: Koharu of the Kinokuniya and Kamiya Jihei


title: Young couple as Kanzan and Jittoku

date: early 19th century


title: Young Man and Woman with a Kite

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu


title: Pine Trees, from the series "Tosa Diary for the Shofudai, Hisakataya, and Bunbunsha (Shofudai Hisakataya Bunbunsha Tosa nikki)"

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Marigold (Kinsenka) and Rashomon Flowers, from the series "Collection of Plants for the Kasumi Poetry Circle (Kasumi-ren somoku awase)"

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


title: Lot and His Daughters

creator: Nicolas Vleughels

medium: Black chalk heightened with white; framing lines in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998


title: Henrietta Lander, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Warrior

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Bacchus on the Shoulders of a Satyr, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Cornelis Cort

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Tureen with cover (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Table knife and fork

creator: William Laughton

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, silver, blue agate

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Faience amulet of Bes image

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian


title: Compartmented stamp seal

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Rowing, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Palampore Tree of Life Quilt

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2014


title: Clara Pilvois

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Hagar in the Desert

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before March 1844

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: The Actor Azuma Tōzō I as a Woman Carrying Two Bird Cages

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Birds

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 2 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Quae Genus with a Spendthrift

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Tabi

date: 20th century

subjects:
Accessory-foot and leg wear
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice de La Mar, 1939


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: String of Big Ball Beads

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and luster-painted

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1948


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Olga Raggio, 2002


title: View of the Surroundings of Toulon

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Butterfly Monogram

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Charcoal on off-white wove paper

subjects:
American
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Gift of A. E. Gallatin, 1923


title: Bow Gun, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

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


title: Christ and the Virgin Appearing to Saint Francis

creator: Pietro Faccini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of charcoal or soft black chalk, on blue-green paper; scattered paint stains throughout

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Pyramus and Thisbe

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Kohl jar

medium: Anhydrite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Cock, Hen, and Rising Sun, from the series "Seven Bird-and-flower Prints for the Fuyo Circle of Kanuma in Shimotsuke Province (Yamagawa Shimotsuke Kanuma Fuyo-ren kacho nanaban tsuzuki no uchi)"

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

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

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Episode 73 (Nanajusan dan), from the series "Tales of Ise for the Asakusa Group (Asakusagawa Ise Monogatari)"

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


title: No. 7: Votive paintings of Six Immortal poets, flying geese, and a pagoda made of coins, from the series "Seven Pictures for the Hisakataya (Hisakataya shichiban no uchi)"

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono with metallic pigments


title: Courtesan Stepping out of a Palanquin

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: c. early 1820s

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; shikishiban, surimono


title: Takeda Mechanical Device (Takeda karakuri): Haku Rakuten (Chinese: Bai Juyi) and the fisherman

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

date: c. early 19th century

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


title: Returning sails at Takanawa


title: View of Miyanoshita Hot Springs in Hakone, Soshu, from the series "Hot Springs - A Diptych (Onsen niban tsuzuki)"


title: Scholar Reading in a Hut


title: View of Mount Fuji from a tea house


title: A Poet Looking out of his Lakeside Hut


title: A Ferryboat Crossing the Sumida River


title: Two Princesses of the River (Kohi nijo), from the series "A Set of Ten Famous Numbers for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren meisu juban)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei


title: Jurojin, from the series "A Parody of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Mitate shichifukujin)"


title: New Year’s Flower Arrangement

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


title: No. 3: Zhang Fei (Sono san: Chohi), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"


title: Camellia in Vase and Tea-utensil Box

creator: Rintei

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Bookcase with Writing Utensils, Books, and Potted Adonis


title: Kogo no Tsubone, from the series "Framed Pictures of Women for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase)"


title: Honma no Suketada from the Chronicles of Grand Peace (Honma no Suketada, Taiheiki), from the series "Twenty-four Japanese Paragons of Filial Piety for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren Honcho nijushiko)"


title: Three actors and a puppet

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

date: late 1810s


title: Distant View of Mount Fuji at Dawn from Hakone

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi


title: Actor in riding garb


title: Crouching tiger


title: Blooming Cherry

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) 二代目 歌川広重

date: 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Ferry boat on the Yodo River

creator: Teisai Hokuba


title: A Giant Radish, Chrysanthemums, and Ferns

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai (Japanese, active 1799–1823)

date: About 1820

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


title: Sekiya, E-awase, and Matsukaze, from the series "The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)"

creator: Ryuryukyo Shinsai


title: The Jewel Taker (Tamatori), from the series "The Palace of the Dragon King (Ryugu)"


title: A woman from Ohara leading an ox, from the series "Five Annual Festivals for the Katsushika Ciricle (Katsushika gosekku)"

creator: Katsushika Taito II


title: Itinerant female musician, from the triptych "Series of Three (Sanbantsuzuki)"

medium: Color woodblock print; one sheet of shikishiban triptych, surimono


title: Willow Bath (Yanagiyu), from the series "A Series of Willows (Yanagi bantsuzuki)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei


title: Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year


title: Warbler in a cage, from the series "A Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)"


title: Woman with book sitting next to a New Year pull toy


title: Lady Seated by a Tokonoma Alcove


title: Crossing the Sumida River on New Year's Day


title: Ono no Tofu, from the series "A Gathering of the Elders of Poetry (Shoshikai bantsuzuki)"


title: Court lady sitting beside hanging incense burner


title: Fans decorated with motifs of the three auspicious dreams of the New Year


title: Courtesan sitting on a veranda next to a lantern


title: The Theater Outing

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban


title: Crossing the Monkey Bridge


title: Goat beneath a plum tree

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


title: A painting of Daoist immortal Huang Chuping (Jp: Ko Shohei)


title: Potted Plant (Ueki), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)"

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


title: No. 7: The Bridal Procession (Koshi-iri), from the series "The Mouses' Wedding (Nezumi no yome-iri)"

creator: Hishikawa Sori III

medium: Color woodblock print; kokonotsugiri-ban, surimono


title: A Mountainous Landscape with a Stream

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono

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


title: Sunrise Over Mountain Village in Winter

creator: Keisai Eisen 渓斎 英泉

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Nakayama Tomisaburo, the left hand sheet of a triptych entitled “Six Actors Likened to the Immortal Poets" ("Yakusha Rokkasen")

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Sato Shirobei Tadanobu (Sato Shirobei Tadanobu)


title: Hawk on a Plum Branch


title: Arrangements of Irises and Morning Glories

date: About 1785

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Pleasures of the Four Seasons: Colors and Scents of Flowers, left (Shiki no asobi hana no iroka, ge)

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych


title: Omando: Ochie, Onokichi of the Matsuya, from the series Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu) (Omando, Matsuya uchi Ochie, Onokichi)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Elegant Pleasures: The Scent of Flowers, left (Furyu hana no ka asobi, ge)


title: Elegant Pleasures: The Scent of Flowers, right (Furyu hana no ka asobi, jo)

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych


title: Evening Cool on the Verandah (Ensaki no yusuzumi): Genre scenes with kyoka poems, in aiban format (Kyoka-iri aiban fuzoku zu)


title: Young Couple Dressed as Mendicant Monks


title: Horse beneath a Flowering Plum Tree

medium: Color woodblock print; long surimono


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

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: Seiro niwaka


title: New Year at Court, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"

date: New Year, 1789

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


title: Performance of a Trained Monkey, from an illustrated poetry anthology entitled "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"

medium: Color woodblock print; page from an album


title: New Year in a Samurai Mansion, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"


title: Delivering New Year Gifts in the Snow, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"


title: New Year Street-Performers, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)"


title: The Nakadaya teahouse


title: The Embankment at Mimeguri

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Towing a Barge in the Snow, from the album The Silver World

medium: Woodblock print; oban

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


title: The Courtesan Ichikawa of the Matsubaya in Edo-machi Itchome, with her Child Attendants Tamamo and Mitsumo


title: Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu : Asazumabune Ogiuri Uta.....


title: Preparing a Meal


title: Folding Fan Seller, Round Fan Seller, and Barley Pounder (Ogi-uri, uchiwa-uri, mugi-tsuki), from the series "Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu)"


title: Three Beauties of Yoshiwara (Seiro san bijin)


title: Women Preparing Gion Bean Curd, from the series "Twelve Types of Women’s Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni-ko)"


title: Wakaume of the Tamaya in Edo-cho itchome, and her child attendants Mumeno and Iroka (Edo-cho itchome, Tamaya uchi Wakaume Mumeno Iroka)


title: Woman Holding up a Piece of Fabric (Nuno o kazasu onna)


title: Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya with Attendants Senkaku and Banki


title: Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Wakagi, Wakaba (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke, Wakagi, Wakaba), from the series “Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day" ("Toji zensei bijin-zoroe")


title: Hinazuru of the Chojiya, Whose Attendants Are Tsuruji and Tsuruno (Chojiya uchi Hinazuru, Tsuruji, Tsuruno), from the series "Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Toji zensei bijin-zoroe)"


title: Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series "Sundial of Young Women (Musume hi-dokei)"


title: Hour of the Horse [12 am], Shrine Maiden (Uma no koku, miko), from the series “Customs of Beauties Around the Clock” ("Fuzoku bijin tokei")


title: Takigawa, from the series "Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Toji zensei bijin zoroe)"


title: Kitchen Scene


title: Hinazuru of the Keizetsuro, from the series "Comparing the Charms of Beauties (Bijin kiryo kurabe) (Keizetsuro Hinazuru)"


title: Miyahito of the Ogiya, Whose Assistants Are Tsubaki and Shirabe (Ogiya uchi Miyahito, Tsubaki, Shirabe)

medium: Key block print with mica; ōban

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


title: Pipe, from the series Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women (Fujin sogaku juttai) (Kiseru)


title: Hour of the Ox [2am] (Ushi no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: The White Coat, from the series "New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style (Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-moyo)"

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


title: Hour of the Hare [6am] (U no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")


title: Hour of the Tiger (Tora no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: Hour of the Horse (Uma no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: Hour of the Snake (Mi no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"

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


title: Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki")


title: Hour of the Sheep (Hitsuji no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: Hour of the Cock (Tori no koku), from the series "Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: Hour of the Rat [12pm] (Ne no koku), from the series "The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara (Seiro juni toki tsuzuki)"


title: The Courtesan Umegawa and Chubei of the Courier Firm (Keisei Unegawa, Hikyakuya Chubei), from the series "True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami)"


title: The Habit of Boisterousness (Sawagashiki kuse), from the series "Seven Bad Habits (Nakute nana kuse)"


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


title: Mother and Child

medium: Color woodblock print; naga-oban

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


title: Fishing beneath a Bridge


title: The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties: A Set of Twelve Prints (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura, junimai tsuzuki)


title: Mosquito Net for a Baby


title: Two Young Women after a Bath


title: Emerging from a Mosquito Net


title: Woman Sitting on Veranda


title: A Set of Three Romantic Journeys (Michiyuki sanpuku tsui)

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet of oban triptych


title: Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, (kamuro:) Shirabe, Teriha, Flowers from the series Snow, Moon and Flowers in Yoshiwara (Seiro setsugekka) (Tamaya uchi Hanamurasaki, Shirabe, Teriha)


title: Courtesans beneath Wisteria Arbor

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych


title: Act IV, from Treasury of the Loyal Retainers


title: Kanpei's Wife Okaru


title: The Fifth Month (Gogatsu), from the series "The Twelve Months (Juni toki)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi


title: The Eighth Month (Nanryo), from the series a Calendar of Elegance (Furyu junikagetsu)


title: Gathering at a Teahouse on the Bank of the Sumida River


title: Women Viewing Cherry Blossoms

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (center sheet: 1925.3088)


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Goten Hill

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych (left sheet: 1939.2195, keyblock proof impression: 1925.3090)


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Goten Hill

medium: Woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych, keyblock proof impression (color sheet: 1925.3091, left sheet: 1939.2195)

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


title: A Parody of the Tales of Ise


title: The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya with her Attendants, from the series "Edo Purple in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro Edo murasaki)"


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

medium: Color woodblock prints; right sheet of oban triptych (complete triptych: 1930.388)


title: Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya with Attendants Hatsune and Shirabe


title: Komurasaki of the Kadotamaya with Attendants Hatsune and Utano


title: Nanamachi of the Yotsumeya with Attendants Sumano and Akashi


title: Ono no Komachi Washing the Copybook, from the series The Fashionable Seven Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1788


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Shinoura of the Tsuruya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Miyagawa of the Matsubaya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Momiji of the Echizenya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Mitsuito of the Hyogoya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Kumegawa of the Ogiya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Hanasaki of the Daimonjiya


title: Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Tokiuta of the Chojiya


title: An Elegant Parody of the Six Poetic Immortals (Furyu yatsushi rokkasen): The Priest Kisen


title: Wakana of the Matsubaya, from the series "Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as the Six Floral Immortals (Seiro bijin rokkasen)"


title: A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase): Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya in Procession (Tamaya Hanamurasaki dochu no zu)


title: Ohana and Ofuku, from the series "A Selection of Entertainers from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro geisha sen)"


title: The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya

creator: Ichirakutei Eisui


title: A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase): Misayama of the Chojiya in Night Dress (Tokogi no zu - Chojiya Misayama)

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


title: Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase): Kisegawa of the Matsubaya with Attendants Onami and Menami


title: Four Seasons in the South - Summer View (Minami shiki natsu no kei)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych


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

creator: Rekisentei Eiri

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban


title: Evening party at Shinagawa


title: Overlooking the bay at Shinagawa

medium: Color woodblock print; sheet from an oban triptych


title: Fashionable Six Immortal Poets (Furyu rokkasen)


title: Women Visiting the Bird and Flower Teahouse (Kachojaya)


title: A Contemporary Parody of Komachi Prays for Rain (Tosei yatsushi Amagoi Komachi)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: Takashima Ohisa, from the series "A Fashionable Set of Three (Furyu sanpuku tsui)"


title: The Courtesan Takikawa of Ogiya, from the series Seven Beautiful Komachi (Bijin nana Komachi)

date: Edo period (1615–1868), about 1794


title: The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI and a boy


title: The actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the packhorse-man Muchizo in the play "Miyamairi Musubi no Kamigaki," performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month, 1797


title: Hamamuraya: Segawa Kikunojo III, 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: Yamatoya: Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: Otawaya: Onoe Matsusuke I as Oboshi Yuranosuke, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


title: Yamatoya Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kikusui in the play "Matsuwa Misao Onna Kusunoki," from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"


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


title: Nakayama Tomisaburo. Dressed as a Woman Wearing a Towel on Her Head


title: The actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Oboshi Yuranosuke in the play "Edo no Hana Ako no Shiogama," performed at the Kiri Theater in the fourth month, 1796


title: The actors Segawa Kikunojo III as the courtesan Kojoro of the Mikuniya and Arashi Sanpachi I as her elder brother Kujuro in the play "Tomigaoka Koi no Yamabiraki," performed at the Kiri Theater in the first month, 1798


title: A Public Bath House


title: Ichikawa Yaozo lll in the Role of Takebe Genzo and Iwai Kiyotaro in the Role of Tonami


title: The actors Arashi Sanpachi I and Ichikawa Omezo I


title: The actors Kataoka Nizaemon VII as Iyo no Taro and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Kojoro-gitsune of Okazaki in the play "Seiwa Nidai Oyose Genji," performed at the Miyako Theater in the eleventh month, 1796


title: The actors Sawamura Sojuro II as Satsuma Gengobei and Arashi Ryuzo II as Mawashi-otoko Yasuke in the play "Edo Sunago Kichirei Soga," performed at the Miyako Theater on the first month, 1795


title: The actor Segawa Kikunojo and a young woman kicking a ball

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical naga-oban


title: The actor Ichikawa Hakuen as Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo in the play "Hatsumonbi Yosooi Soga," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the first month, 1802

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Onoe Matsusuke I as the Ghost of the Wet-Nurse Iohata and Matsumoto Kojiro as Mokuemon, in “Tokubei of India: Tales of Strange Lands” (Tenjiku Tokubei ikoku banashi)


title: The actors Ichikawa Komazo III as Akuhachiro Tokikage and Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Yushide, the sister of Rokurozaemon, in the play "Hana to Mimasu Yoshino no Miyuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1798


title: Memorial portrait of the actor Matsumoto Yonesaburo I


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

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban


title: The Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, and Attendants Wakagi and Wakaba, from the series "A Comparison of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin awase)"

creator: Chokosai Eisho


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


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


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


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


title: The Twelfth Month (Goku getsu), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Months (Furyu junikagetsu)"


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


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


title: Koto (Kin), from an untitled series of the four accomplishments

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu

medium: Color woodblock print; o-oban


title: Painting (Ga), from an untitled series of the four accomplishments


title: Autumn Moon at Atago Hill (Atago shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)"

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro


title: Views of Reception Rooms in Japan - Entertainments on the Day of the Rat in the Modern Style (Uki-e wakoku keiseki ozashiki imayo ne no hi no asobi no zu)


title: Wild Geese and Reeds

date: About 1810

medium: Woodblock print; oban


title: Viewing Ikebana

creator: Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese, 1773-1828)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Women
Fashion
Domestic scene
Black (color)
Flora
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


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

medium: Color woodblock print; center right sheet of oban pentaptych (three left sheets: 1928.1080)

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


title: No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

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


title: No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 8 (hachi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"

medium: color woodblock print; oban


title: No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)"


title: The Red Carp


title: In the Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island (Sashu Tsukahara setchu), from the series "Concise Illustrated Biography of the Great Priest [Nichiren] (Koso go ichidai ryakuzu)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi


title: Oniwakamaru subduing the giant carp

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban diptych, surimono


title: Landscape (Sansui)

creator: Utagawa Sadahide

date: About 1840

medium: Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e


title: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason, from the series "One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu no uchi)"


title: Landscape in Mist (Muchu no sansui), from an untitled series of landscapes

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)


title: Memorial portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige


title: Famous Trees in the Eastern Capital: The Cherry Tree at Naruko (Toto meiboku Naruko no sakura)

creator: Kikukawa Eizan

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Viewing Maple Trees


title: Pine and cranes

creator: Katsushika Taito II

medium: Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet


title: The Archery Gallery

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e diptych


title: Toeizan Temple at Ueno (Ueno Toeizan no zu), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"

creator: Kitao Shigemasa


title: Canary and wisteria

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

medium: Color woodblock print; chutanzaku


title: Illustration of a Chinese poem, from the series "Picture Book of Chinese Poems (Toshi gafu no uchi)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei


title: No. 20: Rain on the Hiratsuka Plain near Kutsukake Station (Niju: Kutsukake no eki, Hiratsukahara uchu no kei), from the series "[Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido"

creator: Keisai Eisen


title: Fishing Boats at Tsukuda Island (Tsukudajima gyoshu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto sanjurokkei)"


title: Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni in Suo Province (Suo Iwakuni Kintaibashi), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)"


title: Night Rain at Makura Bridge (Makurabashi yau), from the series "Eight Views of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hakkei)"


title: Imado Bridge and Matsuchi Hill (Imadobashi Matsuchiyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto sanjurokkei)"


title: Amanohashidate in Tango Province (Tango Amanohashidate), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)"


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I Holding a Lantern

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Color woodblock print; wide hashira-e, urushi-e


title: A courtesan holding a pipe

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