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A work made of color woodblock print; ōban.

The Evening Bell at Miidera (Mii no banshō), from the series "Eight Views in Omi Province (Omi hakkei no uchi)", 1837–38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Yagurashita Unlicensed Pleaser District in Fukagawa, from the series "Fukagawa Hakkei (Eights Views of Fukagawa)", c. 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; sheet from shikishiban hexaptych, surimono.

Minamoto no Yoshiie on horseback and a bird on a branch, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens, c. 1825

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Night Rain of the Tea Stand (Daisu no yau), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)", c. 1766

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Twilight Moon at the Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku no yoizuki), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)", c. 1831

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of pair of six-fold screens; ink and light color on paper.

Landscape of the Four Seasons, c. 1560

Sesson Shukei

Print shows a sweeping perspective view of a wide expanse of land and water rendered in pastel shades of yellow, green, and blue, the land cutting paths between pools. Figures work along these paths, beneath straw-roofed structures, and in fields. A lone snowy mountain rises in the distance, and clouds encroach upon the scene from the right.

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

Crowds on a Bridge

Crowds on a Bridge, n.d.

Utagawa Toyokuni I

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 58: Tarui, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych, urushi-e.

The Daruma Overcoat (Haori Daruma), from "Three Pictures of Harmony (Waki sanpukutsui)", c. 1725/30

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Kyoto: The Great Bridge at Sanjo (Kyo, Sanjo Ohashi zu), 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 prints; oban pentaptych.

New Year's Day at Ogi-ya brothel, 1811

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban diptych.

Beauties Under a Maple Tree, from the series "A Collection of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tosei yuri bijin awase)", c. 1784

Torii Kiyonaga

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

The Waka Murasaki Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Waka Murasaki), from a series of Genji parodies, c. 1710

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban hexaptych (one of a pair of triptychs).

On top and beneath Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogokubashi no ue, shita), c. 1795/96

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print, oban.

Act Seven, from the series "Treasury of the Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (Shichi-damme)", c. 1801/02

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of bronze, gold, silver, and shakudo.

Insect-Cage Incense Burner, late 19th/early 20th century

Tetsunao

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

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

Okumura Toshinobu

A work made of two four-panel screens, cashew oil paint, and gold leaf on black walnut.

From The Mountain Lake Screen Tachi Series, 1990

Ôkura Jirô

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

A Monkey Trainer and His Monkey, c. 1725

Okumura Masanobu

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