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

Dalliance, c. 1685

Sugimura Jihei

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Snow at Akabane Bridge in Shiba (Shiba Akabane no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)", c. 1843/47

Utagawa Hiroshige

A color woodblock print of a ghostly skeletal figure, pulling down a shear blue cloth, sticks its head out from the darkness. From the left, wisps of orange and black, escape.

Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)", 1831-32

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)", 1919

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; aiban, nishiki-e.

Maple Leaf Viewing (Momiji gari), 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Chiryu, 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 woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e.

A Collection of Japanese Paintings (Yamato e-zukushi), 1680

Hishikawa Moronobu

A work made of color woodblcok print; oban.

Kuwana: Ferryboat at Shichiri Crossing (Kuwana, Shichiri no watashibune)—No. 43, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Kanbara, 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.

A Test of Skill - the Headwaters of Amorousness (Jitsu kurabe iro no minakami): Osan and Mohei, n.d.

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; nagaban.

Abe no Nakamaro, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poems, c. 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Bingo Province: Kannon Temple at Abuto (Bingo, Abuto, Kannondo), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)", 1853

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

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

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

Actors Segawa Kikunojô II as Reizei, Ichikawa Komazô I as Suruga no Hachirô, and Ichikawa Yaozô II as Tada no Kurando in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”), About 1768

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Mishima—No. 12, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Weaving silk, plate 11 from the series "Silkworm Cultivation (Kaiko yashinai gusa)", c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Eight-Platform Bridge (Yatsuhashi), from the "Tale of Ise (Ise Monogatari)", c. 1764/65

Suzuki Harunobu

A woodblock print of a human skeleton prancing toward a female figure, cowering on the floor in front of a decorative screen. The background is a deep black.

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga), c.1783

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

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

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

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