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A color woodblock print of two figures crossing a bridge over a blue river that cuts through a snowy mountain range

A Bridge in a Snowy Landscape, from the series "A Collection of Japanese and Chinese Poems for Recitation (Wakan roeishu)", c. 1842/43

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; edition 4/50.

Rescued Bird, 1957

Azechi Umetaro

A work made of color woodblock print.

Matsue, Izumo, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshū), 1924

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print.

Nocturne, 1955

Uchima Ansei

A pair of white, blue, pink, and black cranes, one with wing extended, perch on a wide, knotty, snow-covered pine branch.

Cranes on snow-covered pine, c. 1834

Katsushika Hokusai

A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; hashira-e.

The Heron Maiden, c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print.

Bird, from Milestones of the Season (Shibunshū “Kisetsu-hyō”)Season (Shibunshû “Kisetsu-hyô”), 1935

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition.

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

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, tan-e.

Courtesan Likened to the Chinese Sage Zhang Guolao (Japanese: Chokaro), c. 1715

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e.

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

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Goldfish, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)", c. 1802

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych.

Sino-Japanese War, 1895

Kobayashi Ikuhide

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Arai, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print.

A Perspective View: The Two Deva Kings Gate of Kinryuzan Temple (Ukie: Kinryuzan niomon no zu), 1781/89

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Asakusa Imado, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)", c. 1832/33

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Print in color of two sailboats on blue water carrying cargo. One boat has five humans in it, two wearing red with wide hats, three in blue. A black mountain range, sparse with trees, rises in the background. Japanese characters appear in black ink in the upper portion of the image, with additional text on a red vertical banner in the the upper-right corner and in red at lower left.

Maisaka: The Ferry at Imagiri (Maisaka, Imagiri funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

Three adult figures walk on a boardwalk over reed-filled water, one carrying a baby, wearing clothes in red, blue, and gray tones, with shadowy trees and a tent structure in the background. Japanese characters in red and black ink appear at upper left and bottom right.

No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

Earthenware plate decorated with colorful flower and grape border on the rim and central figurative scene depicting a fashionably dressed couple in the front with a barber serving a man at the back. The scene has an inscription "LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE" with five more lines at the bottom.

Commodore Perry, c. 1853/54

A work made of color woodblock print; vertical nagaban.

Li Bai (Japanese: Ri Haku), from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)", c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

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