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Woodblock print of five women in kimono dancing under a large parasol, holding fans and a lantern.

Sumiyoshi dance

Chobunsai Eishi, 1791

Woodblock print of a monk sweeping snow with a broom beside a latticed wooden building, with calligraphy above.

A Priest Sweeping in the Snow

Torii Kiyonobu II, 1731

Woodblock print of children gathered at a painting class with brushes, fans, bowls and paper on red mats.

Children in a painting class

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1830

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in colorful costume, one standing beside a tall stack of boxes and cloth bundles.

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Kamada Matahachi and Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Hisamatsu in the play "Osome Hisamatsu…

Torii Kiyonobu I, 1720

Woodblock print of a bald, fierce-faced man in a patterned robe seated on rocks, holding a bowl, with a golden dragon above.

Actor in the role of Nakasaina Sonja

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1847

Woodblock print of a boatman, porters and a loaded horse by a shore with pine trees, thatched house and distant sailboats.

Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase no kihan), No. 5 from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

Torii Kiyomasu II, c. 1730s

Japanese woodblock print of two kabuki actors, a standing man with a yellow fan and a kneeling woman in a patterned kimono.

Arashi Hinasuke in the role of Minamoto no Raikō and Iwai Kumesaburō in the role of Yosoi Hime

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1799

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono, one holding a puppet figure aloft over his shoulder.

The Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu"…

Torii Kiyomasu II, 1725

Japanese woodblock print of a seated figure in a black kimono resting on a wooden box beside a screen and flowers.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Kuzunoha

Torii Kiyomasu II, c. 1737

Woodblock print of porters carrying a palanquin past rice paddies and a large tree, with distant mountains and a poem above.

Shono, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of a timber yard by a canal, with workers, stacked lumber, wooden houses and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Tategawa at the capital

Katsushika Hokusai, 1833

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a yellow floral kimono holding a small basket, with a title cartouche at upper left.

The Courtesan Komurasaki (Tayu Komurasaki)

Torii Kiyotada, c. 1730

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono walking by a river with bushclover, hills and a moon above.

Bushclover at Tamagawa (Six Jewel Rivers)

Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

Woodblock print of a bearded man in a black court robe beside a flowering plum branch, with Japanese signature.

Sugawara no Michizane

Kondo Kiyoharu, c. 1720

Japanese woodblock print of three figures in patterned kimono beside a wooden fence and pine branch.

First scene

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1785

Woodblock print of a woman in a kimono trimming her nails on a bamboo bench under a weeping willow.

Trimming Her Nails

Torii Kiyohiro, c. 1755

Hand-colored woodblock print of Shoki the demon queller in yellow robes sharpening a sword beside rocks and a winged creature

Shoki the Demon Queller Sharpening His Sword

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1725

Japanese woodblock print of women, children and a man under yellow parasols walking in falling snow.

Snow

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a mother and child behind teal mosquito netting, with a standing woman and paper lantern in a Japanese int

Mother and child behind mosquito netting

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Hotei carries a child piggyback through shallow water beside a woman under a willow tree, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Hotei carrying a young girl piggyback

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Black woodblock print of two robed figures in a boat under a crescent moon, with pine and willow trees on the riverbank.

Ukifune and Ukon approach the island of Tachibana

Okumura Masanobu, c.1740

Woodblock print of a man with a sword and a woman on a veranda, with a rooster and hen and blossoming plum branches.

A young dandy and a woman on a veranda

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a standing kabuki actor in a striped robe holding a folding fan, with a red Japanese cartouche.

Ichikawa Yaozō III in the role of Yoshida-ya Kizaemon

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1804

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a drawn sword above his head, with water in the background.

Ichikawa Danzō I

Katsukawa Shunshō, 1776

Woodblock print of a rider and attendants crossing a wooden bridge over swirling water, with sailboats and a thatched house b

Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)"

Suzuki Harunobu, early 1760s

Woodblock print of a courtesan and male guest reclining in an interior with a painted screen and lacquer boxes.

Courtesan and her guest in bed

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a seated monk gazing at Mount Fuji under a red sun, with a pagoda and pine trees on a cliff.

Saigyo Hoshi gazing at Mt. Fuji

Nishimura Shigenaga, c. 1730s

Japanese woodblock print of three women in patterned kimono, one standing and two seated, with tall black hats and crane moti

Fūryū onna shikisanba

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1788

Woodblock print of two women in a room, one looking at a hanging scroll of a man, the other kneeling near plum blossoms.

Courtesans admiring a painting by Okumura Masanobu

Suzuki Harunobu, 1767

Woodblock print of a harbor with sailboats, porters on the shore, thatched houses, and distant mountains across the water.

Otsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with P…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42