1840s Japanese Woodblock Prints

'Fashionable Brocade Patterns of the Palace'

1847-1852

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"Refined Elegance in the Four Seasons" (Shiji seiga), Album of Flower Paintings

四時清雅

1844

Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper

(Transmitted from the Gods) Hokusai Sketches (Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga), vol.14

c.1849

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(Transmitted from the Gods) Hokusai's Garden of Pictures (Denshin kaishu Hokusai gaen), vol. 2

1843

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A Bedside Guide to the Colors of Love in Spring (Shunshoku neya no shiori) 春色閨の栞

ca. 1850

Set of three woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

A View of Timber Yards from a Bridge

c. late 1840s

Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e

Acrobats

1847-52

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Actor Arashi Tokusaburō II (later Kitsusaburō II) as O-Karu with Onoe Kikugorō as Kampei, by Castle Moat in Night Scene (from Chūshingura)

c. 1840

Color woodblock diptych (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Actor Bando Shuka I as Jujibei's Wife Ohaya (Jujibei nyobo Ohaya)

c. 1848

Color woodblock print; oban

Actor Bando Shuka I as Jujibei's Wife Ohaya (Jujibei nyobo Ohaya)

c. 1848

Color woodblock print; oban

Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Narihira at Yatsuhashi from "A Six-fold Screen of Famous Pictures (Meiga rokushi byobu)"

1847-1852

Color woodblock print

Actor Ichimura Uzaemon 12th (One of Three Kabuki Actors)

Late Edo period, circa 1847-1852

Right panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper

Actor Kataoka Gadō II as Hattori Kingorō

1841

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Actor Kataoka Gadō II as Yodoya Tatsugorō

1841

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Actor Nakamura Utaemon 4th (One of Three Kabuki Actors)

Late Edo period, circa 1847-1852

Center panel from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "ōban" triptych; ink and color on paper with printed signature reading "Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga"

Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Boatman Matsuemon, actually Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu (Sendo Matsuemon, jissha Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu)

1849

Color woodblock print; oban

Actors as Fujisawa Shiro, Asari Yoichi, and Hangaku, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

c. 1851/52

Color woodblock print; chuban

Actors as Fujisawa Shiro, Asari Yoichi, and Hangaku, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

c. 1851/52

Color woodblock print; chuban

Actors as Hotei Ichiemon and Gokuin Chiemon

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban

Actors as Ushiwakamaru, Kisanta, Kiichi Hogen, and Minazuru-hime

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban

Akasaka—No. 37, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban

Akizuki Yuminosuke's Daughter Miyuki, Later the blind Musician Asagao (Akizuki Yuminosuke musume Miyuki, nochi ni goze Asagao)

c. 1848

Color woodblock print; oban

Aoigasaka

1843-1847

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Ariwara no Narihira passing Mount Fuji on his journey to the East

c. 1845/46

Color woodblock print; vertical oban diptych

Asahina Saburo

1840

Color woodblock print; yokonaga surimono

Ashinoyu

1847-1850

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Autumn

1843-1847

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Autumn Leaves and the Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Kyoto

ca. 1840-1842

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Autumn Moon at Matsuchiyama

1843-1847

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Backward-viewing Falls, One of the Three Waterfalls (Urami-ga-taki, santaki no sono ikkei), from the series "Famous Scenic Spots in the Mountains of Nikko (Nikkosan meisho no uchi)"

1843–1847

Color woodblock print

Bamboo and Plum in Early Spring

1843

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Black-naped oriole and clematis (Facsimile?)

1840s

Color woodblock print; aitanzaku

Bush Warbler on a Plum Tree in Moonlight

ca. 1840-1842

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Cai Shun (Sai Jun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"

c. 1848/50

Color woodblock print; chuban

Canary and Wisteria

mid-1840s

color woodblock print

Caricatures of Iwafuji and O-Hatsu, and a Game of Toad-Tiger-Fox

1847

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Caricatures of Laughing Actors Scribbled on a Wall (Hakumensho kabe no mudagaki)

c. 1848/51

Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych (right: 1975.474, center: 1975.476)

Cherry Blossom Viewing (Shunchaku hana no shizuku)

c. 1833

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

Cherry Blossom Viewing (Shunchaku hana no shizuku)

c. 1833

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

Chiryu—No. 40, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban

Chrysanthemums

c. 1840s

Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e

Clear Skies after Snow--Ryogoku in Moonlight

1843-1847

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Clearing Skies at Ochanomizu

1843-1847

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Cockerel, Hen and Basket

ca. 1840-1842

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Collected Thirty-six Kyōka Poets (Kyōka roku roku shū) 興歌六々集

1840 (Tenpō 11)

Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

Cranes by the Water's Edge

ca. 1840-1842

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Crowd Visiting Benzaiten Shrine at Enoshima in Sagami Province (Soshu Enoshima Benzaiten kaicho sankei gunshu no zu)

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

Danshichi Kurobei

ca. 1845

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Dashun (Taishun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"

c. 1843

Color woodblock print; oban

Deer

19th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Descending Geese at Nippori

1843-1847

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Ding Lan (Tei Ran), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"

c. 1848/50

Color woodblock print; chuban

Distant View from beneath Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi kyoka no chobo), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Seen from the Eastern Capital (Toto Fujimi sanjurokkei)"

c. 1843

Color woodblock print; oban

Distant View from Shōheizaka Slope (Shōheizaka no enkei)

ca. 1843

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Distant View of Mount Zozu in Sanuki Province

1843-1847

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Distant View of the Kinryuzan Temple at Asakusa

ca. 1844-1848

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Dragons Among Clouds

1844

Color woodblock print; surimono

Drifting in a Boat

1847

Album leaf; ink and color on silk

Dwelling by the Shore

1847

Album leaf; ink and color on silk

Earth

1843 - 1847

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