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Woodblock print of a woman in a green floral kimono holding a pipe, with an elaborate black hairstyle and long hairpins.

Geisha piippu kädessä; Tamayan teetalon geisha Shiratama

Kitagawa Utamaro

Japanese woodblock print of two women and a child by a marsh, with a snipe flying overhead and a thatched pavilion behind.

The Marsh Where the Snipe Takes Flight (Shigi tatsu sawa), from the series "Three Evening Poems (Sanseki no uchi)"

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Woodblock print of two women in kimono on a coast, with islands, sea and a snow-capped mountain in the distance.

Pilgrimage to Enoshima

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1821

Two Japanese woodblock print sheets of kabuki actors, one in a striped robe and one in a violet kimono with a green robe.

Näyttelijät Iwai Hanshiro V ja Ichikawa Danjuro VII näytelmässä Imose no en risho kumi-ito (Miehen ja vaimon kohtalon…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1817

Woodblock print of three women in kimono beside a large tiger, with a bamboo-painted folding screen behind them.

The Four Sleepers in Spring Dawn (Shisui shunsho)

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1806

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors: a woman in a black maple-patterned kimono and a man in a red checked robe.

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopeme…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1781

Japanese woodblock print of a kimono-clad woman beside a bell and a kneeling bald monk, with blossoms and a signboard.

Parody of the play "Musume Dojoji"

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1801/05

Woodblock print of two sailing boats with pink sails on a blue sea, pine branches in the foreground, and distant green hills.

Maisaka, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Woodblock print of a flatfish, a speckled scorpion fish, and two shells on tan paper, in blue-green ink.

Flatfish, scorpion fish, and shells, from an untitled series of chuban prints

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831

Woodblock print of a seated traveler receiving tea from a woman in a patterned kimono beside luggage and a sedge hat.

Okabe, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Woodblock print of a woman in a brown floral kimono before Edo rooftops and a bridge under a blue sky.

Edolaisnainen. Bijin-ga

Utagawa Kunisada, 1820

Woodblock print of two children riding a horse with a basket of greens beneath pine trees, with Japanese calligraphy.

Mishima, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono, one standing and one leaning close, with black hair and orange floral patter

Couple in Love, from the Series Elegant Five-needle Pine

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of two women in kimono in an interior with a paper lantern, bedding and calligraphy, by Hokusai.

Shono, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Woodblock print of a frog on a striped stand with a floral arrangement of yellow blossoms rising from a green vessel.

An Arrangement of Valerian and Chinese Bell Flowers

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1796

Hokusai woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono at work beside a wooden tub, with a bending figure in a doorway.

Kanaya, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Woodblock print of a man in checkered robe and white headcloth stabbing a figure beside bamboo, with blood on the blue kimono

Seibei vermoord door persoon met witte hoofddoek

Utagawa Kunisada, 1857

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with parasol, a child with bundle, and a bowing man at a stone monument by a tree.

Fujisawa, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Black and white woodblock print of morning glory vines and blossoms arranged around a woven basket and bamboo stand.

An Arrangement of Morning Glories

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1796

Woodblock print of two women in a room, one serving tea and one sorting bamboo strips, with a blossoming tree outside.

Fuchu, from an untitled series of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1804

Triptych woodblock print of women and attendants crossing a stream before Mount Fuji, with a horse and a falconer.

Young man and his party crossing a stream before Mt. Fuji

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798/1800

Woodblock print of porters carrying palanquins across waves toward a thatched village, with snow-capped Mount Fuji in the bac

Fuji from Kanaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Kanaya no Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjur…

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/32

Japanese woodblock diptych of two kabuki actors in patterned robes, one holding a fan, one with a raised sword, 1857.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Kodanji IV ja Bando Hikosaburo näytelmässä Sugawara denju tenarai-kagami (Kaunokirjoitusta Sugaw…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1857

Blue woodblock print of a bridge finial above a river with riverside houses and hills, by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Sanjo Bridge (Sanjo Ohashi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Miyako meisho)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1849/50

Woodblock print of three women in a boat on blue waves, with Mount Fuji and pine trees in the background.

View of Mount Fuji from across the Sea at Miho Bay in Suruga Province (Sunshu Fujisan Miho no kaijo yori chobo), from…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1844/46

Japanese woodblock print of two kabuki actors, one on a white horse and one kneeling, against mountains and palm fronds.

Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Prince Shitta Taishi

Utagawa Kunisada, 1854

Woodblock print of women and a child on a pier with sailing boats returning across a blue bay at dusk.

Returning Sails at Tsukuda (Tsukuda no kihan), from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1844/46

Fan-shaped woodblock print of a long bridge over a lake with sailboats, pines, and a conical mountain under a pale sky.

Long Bridge at Seta (Seta no nagahashi), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1852

Japanese woodblock print of several women in patterned kimonos in an interior, with a pine tree visible beyond a railing.

Kurtisaanien talo

Woodblock print of a standing kabuki actor in a pink patterned robe holding prayer beads, with vertical inscriptions.

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke III

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1824

Woodblock print of a seated man in blue kimono holding prayer beads, with Japanese calligraphy inscriptions beside him.

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Nakamura Kanjaku II

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1861

Woodblock print of a seated bald man in a dark kimono beside a tea kettle and brazier, with calligraphy above.

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V (Ichikawa Danjuro VII)

Utagawa Kunisada I, 1859