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Hishikawa Moronobu

45 works

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Black-and-white Japanese print of two women in patterned kimono, one wearing a wide hat, with script along the border.

Leaf from One Hundred Japanese Women

ca. 1695

Three Japanese women in patterned kimono and upswept hairstyles, drawn in black ink on a pale woodblock print page.

Leaf from a Book Entitled: Wakoku Hiaku-jo: One Hundred Japanese Women

1625

Woodblock print of musicians and women picnicking beneath a blossoming cherry tree, with a koto and food boxes.

Musical Picnic in Ueno

1673 - 1677

Black-and-white Japanese woodblock print of an explicit nude couple with two kimono-clad attendants in an interior room.

A sheet from a shunga album

1680s

Black-and-white woodblock print of a standing courtesan by a patterned screen and a reclining couple in a room with a landsca

A Courtesan with Her Client, the first sheet of an untitled erotic picture album

c. 1673/81

Black-and-white woodblock print of two women in kimono embracing in a room beside a pine-painted screen.

Flirting Lovers

c. 1673/81

Black-and-white woodblock print of two figures embracing under a blossoming tree beside a stream and veranda.

Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints

c. 1673/81

Monochrome woodblock print of women in kimono carrying buckets on yoke poles beside blossoming trees and a veranda.

Matsukaze Murasame

ca. 1675-80

Woodblock print of two seated women in patterned kimono beside a koto zither, sword, and draped robe in an interior.

Two Lovers

ca. 1675-80

Woodblock-style ink print of an Edo street with kimono-clad women, swordsmen, tiled roofs, and a shop awning.

The Entrance to Ageya-machi, from the series Scenes in the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)

1681-84

Black-and-white woodblock print of seated figures at a banquet in an interior with screens, bedding and a servant with a tray

A Banquet in a Joroya

ca. 1680

Black and white woodblock print of a flower-viewing party under a cherry tree, with court ladies and seated men on a platform

Flower-Viewing Party with Crest-Bearing Curtain, from the series "Flower Viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)"

c. 1681/84

Hand-colored print of a seated court woman with an orange fan, moon above clouds, and calligraphy in Japanese.

Murasaki Shikibu

1670

Monochrome print of women in kimono on a latticed balcony and staircase, with a figure in a woven hat below.

Street Scene in Yoshiwara

late 17th century

Four figures in patterned kimono stand and sit behind vertical bars beneath a lattice roof in a Japanese print.

Games of Football Being Played by Nobles

Black-and-white print of two cranes beside bamboo, rocks and rippling water within a lobed frame.

Cranes

Black ink print of a male pheasant with long tail feathers beside a smaller bird, under pine branches and bamboo.

Pheasants

Black ink print of Kiyomizu Temple with pine and blossoming trees and kimono-clad figures walking in the foreground.

Kiyomidzu Temple in Kyoto

Black-and-white woodblock print of samurai, women in kimono, stacked buckets and a wooden fence in a street scene.

The Fourth Scene, from the series Scenes of the Pleasure Quarter at Yoshiwara in Edo

Black-and-white print of pedestrians in kimono on a street below a wooden veranda with seated figures behind screens.

Street Scene in the Yoshiwara

Black-and-white woodblock print of two lovers embracing among autumn chrysanthemums, with a sword leaning against a rock.

Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

1680s

Ink woodblock print of figures in kimono on a wooden veranda beside pine trees, with a garden path and stream below.

Flower-Viewing Scene

ca. 1685

Hand-colored woodblock print of a courtesan and a young man beside a screen with plum blossoms and chrysanthemums.

Courtesan with a Young Man (Wakashu) beside a Screen

ca. 1679-84

Black-and-white Japanese woodblock print of a palanquin with bearers, women travelers, a monk with a staff, and pine trees.

Reizend gezelschap

1700

Hand-colored Japanese print of courtesans behind a barred balcony in a brothel, with men walking below beside a pine tree.

A House of Courtesans, from the series "The Appearance of Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)"

c. 1681/84

Woodblock print of a temple complex with pine trees, monks and samurai walking on stairs and paths.

Honbo, from the series "Scenes of Flower-viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)"

c. 1681/84

Woodblock print of a palanquin carried by porters past blossoming shrubs, with women and a monk walking nearby.

A Passing Palanquin, from the series "Scenes of Flower-viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)"

c. 1681/84

Hand-colored woodblock print of a procession of samurai retainers in black cloaks carrying swords, one holding a tall standar

Procession of a Daimyo

c. 1681/84

Monochrome woodblock print of travelers walking along hillside paths past thatched houses and pine trees.

Emon Hill, from the series "The Appearance of Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)"

c. 1681/84

Black-and-white Japanese print of samurai and women in a Yoshiwara street scene with wooden buckets and a fence.

Scene in the Yoshiwara, from the series "Views of Yoshiwara"

About 1680

Black-and-white woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a folding screen with plum blossoms and a moon.

Behind the Screen

c. 1673/81

Woodblock print of a woman in a yellow patterned kimono beside a reclining nude man on a patterned mat, with a lantern.

Jonge vrouw en naakte man op kleed

1680