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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Snow at Zojoji Temple (Yuki no Zojoji), 1929

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Cloudy Day at Matsue in Izumo Province (Izumo Matsue [kumoribi]), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1924

Kawase Hasui

A color woodblock print of a white cat with it’s back to us, stares out a window, looking over rooftops, green fields, toward Mt Fuji in the distance. A blue and white bowl and towel sit on the windowsill , on the floor are decorative hair pins.

Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Ichikawa Omezo I (R) as Tomita Hyotaro and Otani Oniji III (L) as Kawashima Jibugoro, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hodogaya: Katabira River and Katabira Brige (Hodogaya, Katabiragawa Katabirabashi)—No. 5, 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; oban.

Misty Moonlight at Matsue in Izumo Province (Izumo Matsue [oborozuki]), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1924

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 56: Mieji, 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; oban.

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

Kawase Hasui

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; 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; 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; 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 woodblcok print; oban.

Miya: Shichiri Ferry Crossing, Gate to the Atsuta Shrine, and Nezame Village (Miya, Shichiri no watashi, Atsuta no torii, Nezame no sato)—No. 42, 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; oban.

Snow at a Guest House Overlooking a Pond, from an untitled series of views of the Mitsubishi villa in Fukagawa, 1920

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Woman Holding a Branch of Kerria Flowers in the Rain (parody of Ota Dokan), c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Precints of the Akiba Shrine, Ukeji (Ukeji Akiba no keidai), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A color woodblock print of pink, orange and yellow chrysanthemums. In the upper rihgt a tiny bee flies above the flowers. Signature and seals in the lower left corner.

Chrysanthemums and Bee, from an untitled series of Large Flowers, c. 1831–33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of 1/2 length & open, in brocaded, plain compound twill, silk & gilt & silvered paper, 2 strips to mm., also gilt paper wound on silk core..

Obi (Belt), 1901/1925, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of silk, rayon, and silver-leaf-over-paper strips, gold- and silver-leaf-over-paper-wrapped rayon, and rayon, plain weave with gauze crossings and plain and weft-float faced 1:7 satin interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Obi (Belt), 1901/25, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; interlining: silk fiber over cotton, plain weave.

Obi (Belt), 1901/25, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

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