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A work made of color woodblock print (album sheet).

Iris, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu), c. 1814

Katsushika Hokusai

A stately white home outlined in black with columns, lattices, ornate ironwork, and a decorative frieze. A yellow sky with huge clouds and full, sienna-toned trees frame the home.

Old Munich, 1905

Gustave Baumann

A work made of color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych.

Image of a Japanese Woman (Fujo Yamato sugata), c. 1830/35

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban, surimono.

A Mountainous Landscape with a Stream, 1827

Totoya Hokkei

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Couple with a Pet Mouse, c. 1768/69

Suzuki Harunobu

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

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I dressed as mendicant monks (komuso), c. 1749

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Print with a gray upper portion and a blue lower portion, upon which are the imprints of two leaves, one dark brown or black and one reddish brown. Prints of a thin blue stick or line, a mesh-like object, and a rounded piece of wood balance the composition.

Objet No. 4, 1954

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Shinagawa, 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; chuban.

Futagawa, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Clearing Weather at Awazu (Awazu seiran), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Akashi of the Tamaya, from the series Seven Komachis of Yoshiwara (Seiro nana Komachi) (Tamaya uchi Akashi, Uraji, Shimano), c. 1794/95

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Ginjuro's Wife Oyumi from the Play "Whirlpools of Awa" (Awa no naruto, Ginjuro nyobo Oyumi), from the series "Bamboo Nodes in Puppet Theater Designs (Ayatsuri moyo take no hitofushi)", 1806

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Hara, 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; oban.

No. 26: Mochizuki, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

The Flute (Hichiriki), from the series "Fashionable Musical Amusements of Children (Furyu kodomo asobi ongaku)", c. 1770/72

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of woodblock print; sumizuri-e, oban yoko-e.

A Courtesan with Her Client, the first sheet of an untitled erotic picture album, c. 1673/81

Hishikawa Moronobu

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban pentaptych.

Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River, c. 1792

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock prints; two sheets from an oban triptych.

In a Pleasure House in Shinagawa (Shinagawa no rojo), n.d.

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Goten Hill at Shinagawa on the Tokaido (Tokaido Shinagawa Gotenyama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

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