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Woodblock print of a woman in a blue striped kimono holding a folding fan and hand mirror against a red patterned background.

Woman with a Folding Fan and Hand Mirror, from the series Sensuous Young Women of Contemporary Times

Utagawa Kunisada, 1838

Woodblock print of a leaping tiger above a boy in red and yellow robes beside a pine tree and waterfall.

Yang Xiang (Yō Kō), from the series A Child’s Mirror of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshi kō dōji kag…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1843

Woodblock print of tall sea stacks with pine trees, rowboats with figures, and sailboats on the horizon under a pale sky.

Upright Landscape

Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th century

Woodblock print of figures strolling among irises near a tea house with lanterns, under a leaning pine, in blue tones.

View of Iris Gardens at Horikiri

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1861

Triptych woodblock print of Yokohama waterfront with Western buildings, flags, sailing ships, carriages and pedestrians.

View of the Seafront in Yokohama (Yokohama Kagandori no fūkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige III, 5th month, 1870

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono adjusting her hair, with an inset of porters and a red clock tower.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Dragon

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman with a parasol in windblown snow, beside a scroll and poem cards with calligraphy.

Selected Scenes from One Poem Each by One Hundred Poets: Poem by Emperor Kōkō

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print with a steamship in a harbor above and a kabuki actor with red face makeup and a woman below.

Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Inspired by Famous Pictures

Utagawa Kunisada, 1864

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono with a blue hood, a child with a bird, and a plum garden inset.

Six Poetic Sages as Young Women at the Plum Garden at Kameido

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman with gold hairpins and a child with cards, a red clock tower and crowd at a window above.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Goat

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman reading a letter while an attendant combs her hair, with cherry blossoms in an ins

Geisha with a Hairdresser

Utagawa Kunisada

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a kimono tending a brazier with chopsticks, with a teapot and calligraphy beside her.

Tyttö hiilloksen ääressä (syksyllä), kuvan yli kulkevien säerivien kuvaamana

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped kimono washing white cloth in a stream, with sparrows flying overhead and a crab near

Mizu. Fuzoku-ga

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Woodblock print of two women in kimono arranging flowers in an interior, with a bird on a screen and bamboo outside.

Flower Arranging

Kitao Shigemasa, c. 1769

Japanese woodblock print of women on a veranda with cherry blossoms, potted plants, and a garden with a persimmon tree.

Naisia kuistilla

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1840

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black haori with crests and dotted hakama, holding two swords, by Kunisada, 1860.

Actors Nakamura Fukusuke and Tokuji in the Play Kanadehon Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1860

Japanese diptych woodblock print of kabuki actors in samurai costume with swords, peonies and clouds on a green ground.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Danzo VI ja Bando Hikosaburo(?) näytelmässä Kazashi no hana megumi no Takatsuna (Kukka Takatsuna…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1857

Diptych woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono, one raising a fan beneath cherry blossoms.

Kohtaus kabuki-näytelmästä, kaksi onnagata näyttelijää

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Diptych Japanese woodblock print of two kabuki actors in checkered kimono beside irises at night with fireflies.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Gado ja Yoroku näytelmässä Gonin otoko isoji no tateire (Viiden miehen viisikymmentä urotekoa)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1855

Woodblock print of women in kimono and a man gathering flowers in a grassy field, with butterflies overhead.

Gathering spring flowers

Kubo Shunman, c. 1789

Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono, one seated holding a sake cup, with calligraphy and floral patterns.

Kurtisaani Ohyodo pitelee sakekuppia

Japanese print of a woman carrying a kettle and food box past rice planters bent over paddies under a pine tree.

Taking Food to Rice Planters

Kubo Shunman, late 18th/early 19th century

Japanese print of three travelers pausing at a stream beside yellow flowering shrubs, with a kneeling attendant and sandals.

The Ide Jewel River

Kubo Shunman, c. 1781/89

Japanese woodblock print of two women and a child by a fence, with men reading on a veranda above under a pine tree.

Returning from a Poetry Gathering

Kubo Shunman, c. 1785/89

Diptych Japanese woodblock print of a woman crouching in kimono and a man in plaid robe raising a sickle among willows.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Danjuro VII ja Iwai Shijaku näytelmässä Date kurabe O-Kuni kabuki (Tanssinäytelmä Daten sukuriid…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1829

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in striped robe and patterned blue trousers under flowering plum branches.

Näyttelijä Nakamura Fukusuke (?) Imayo Kurosuken roolissa tunnistamattomassa näytelmässä

Utagawa Kunisada, 1856

Woodblock print of a reclining courtesan in a floral kimono beside a koto and shamisen, with calligraphy above.

Courtisane met koto

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1830

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a parasol beneath blossoming cherry branches.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Shizuka Gozen (?)

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1767

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a sword beside bamboo, with a screen behind him.

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Kichisaburo in the play "Junshoku Edo Murasaki," performed at the Ichimura Theater…

Torii Kiyonaga, 1779

Japanese woodblock print of a seated older man in patterned robes holding a pipe, with bonsai trees in pots before a lattice

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sansho Dayu (?)

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1780

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red and green costume holding a yellow fan, with a red sun behind him.

Nakamura Utaemon III as Taira no Kiyomori

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1812

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in patterned kimono beside chrysanthemum plants, by Torii Kiyonaga, 177

Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro…

Torii Kiyonaga, 1778