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Woodblock print of three kabuki actors in red, green and dark costumes, with name cartouches in Japanese script.

古今俳優沢村喜十郎・初代沢村宇十郎・沢村淀五郎

Utagawa Kunisada, 1863

Woman in blue kimono kneeling by a lacquer chest, holding plum blossoms, with a poem panel and snowy pine scene in a Japanese

源氏雲浮世絵合御幸

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of a woman with an updo and gold hairpin, looking into a mirror, wearing a floral green kimono.

東すかた源氏合

Woman in blue checked kimono playing a shamisen, with an ornate hairpin and a decorative title label, Japanese woodblock prin

風俗三十二相たのしんでゐさう嘉永年間師匠之風俗

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888

Ukiyo-e print of a woman with a cat by her collar, with an inset coastal scene of fishermen and a boat under a pine.

山海愛度図会えりをぬきたい

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue patterned kimono holding a cloth, with a text panel on a red background.

当勢三十二想思ひ切がよさ相

Toyohara Kunichika, 1868

Woodblock print of a half-naked man leaping over a beam while men lie on the floor amid smoke and scattered cards.

郵便報知新聞第五百八十九号

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Japanese woodblock print of three kabuki-style samurai figures in blue and green kimono against a red background.

河内山新狂言松江侯屋舗之場

Yōshū Chikashige, 1881

Japanese woodblock print of armored samurai marching past pine trees and banners, with a mounted warrior on a white horse.

源義経出陣之図

Utagawa Yoshitora, 1864

Woodblock print of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle in a striped kimono, with a plum-blossom scene inset above.

時代かゞみ明治

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897

Woodblock print of a samurai fighting a winged tengu creature in a red cloak, with a crow and naginata nearby.

和漢百物語宮本無三四

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1865

Japanese woodblock print of women on a platform carried by men through waves, with Mount Fuji in the background.

〔大井川蓮台渡〕

Utagawa Toyokuni

時代かゞみ寛政之頃

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a green kimono pouring tea from a teapot, with calligraphy and an inset scene.

新柳二十四時午前二時

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1880

Four-panel Japanese woodblock print with two actor portraits in kimono and two panels of calligraphy text.

教訓いろはたとゑお・曽我五郎時致／く・在原屋業平

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a striped kimono holding a sword, with a hexagon-patterned backdrop and calligraphy cart

〔茨木明治１６年４月上演新富座〕

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1883

Japanese woodblock print of a village road with thatched houses, blue banners, plum trees and a green mountain behind.

石部

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono walking past a torii gate and a busy street market with shop curtains.

芝神明生姜市

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a courtier in blue robe with a fan on a veranda, gazing at a full moon beside a poem cartouche.

月百姿かしかまし野もせにすたく虫の音よ我たになかくものをこそおもへ

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Color woodblock print of Japanese soldiers charging up a hillside, an officer on horseback raising a sword under a rising sun

日本大勝利成歓ノ戦ニ清兵ヲ破

Yōsai Nobukazu, 1894

Woodblock print of a court lady reading a letter by a silk curtain, with attendants, a garden stream and a painted screen.

夢浮橋

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a floral kimono holding a baby, with a night bridge and fireworks scene inset above.

東都名所両国橋之涼

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a checkered robe, with a smaller inset portrait and calligraphy above.

市村家橘

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1862

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a chrysanthemum-patterned kimono holding a fan beside yellow flowering branches.

おそめ瀬川路孝

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of armored samurai wading through a castle moat toward a gate, with a samurai in red and green at the entranc

瓢軍談五十四場十二ひゃうたんの相図に寄手水門より討入稲葉山落城

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Japanese woodblock print of a samurai with drawn sword confronting a seated man, with calligraphy panel and round vignette ab

誠忠義臣名々鏡ま早野和助常成

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese woodblock print of a night market with red lanterns, a full moon, and two figures on a balcony above a crowd.

浅草年之市

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a seated man by moonlit reeds with two armored warriors watching from the left under a full moon.

月百姿淮水月伍子胥

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887

Multi-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in varied costumes arranged in framed portrait cartouches.

〔役者似顔絵双六〕

Toyohara Kunichika, 1868

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in striped kimono applying makeup from a box, on a red and purple floral backgroun

〔御存白石噺明治１３年１月上演新冨座〕

Yōshū Chikashige, 1880

Woodblock print of a woman at a wooden screen and a man in a plaid robe holding a child, with a poem cartouche above.

十郎兵衛・おゆミ

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of two women in a room with a potted pine and a screen showing flowering branches and a bird.

本銀丁福屋マンキチ・本石丁升や小美代

Toyohara Kunichika, 1881

Japanese woodblock print of travelers on a coastal path past green hills, pine trees and the sea beyond.

白須賀

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Japanese woodblock print of two women punting a boat under a blossoming cherry tree above blue waves.

風流六花撰ノ内

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of two women in kimono walking beneath a blossoming cherry tree, one pointing ahead.

四季の詠隅田堤のさくら

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1894

Woodblock print of a seated samurai with sword beside a morning glory scroll and calligraphy, with shadow figures on the wall

源氏雲浮世絵合朝顔

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue patterned kimono holding an umbrella, with a clock tower and street lamp behind her.

東京名所六ケ撰の内吉原

Toyohara Kunichika, 1889

Woodblock print of a samurai in red and green armor on horseback with banners, plus a small river landscape and text panel.

書画五拾三駅三河豊橋往昔戦争

Utagawa Yoshitora

Japanese woodblock print of a barefoot samurai with a drawn sword under willow branches and a moon, with poem text above.

小倉擬百人一首

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese woodblock print of three women in a room with a vase of red maple branches and a hanging poem scroll.

現時五十四情第七号

Toyohara Kunichika

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a dark robe holding a staff, with a large white-fringed hat and text panels.

二番組千組

Utagawa Yoshitora, 1858

Woodblock print of a man in a patterned red kimono and white hood beside a snowy pine tree at night.

（明烏花濡衣）

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a checkered kimono and striped obi, with a seated monk holding a skull in an inset pan

妙でんす十六利勘貧須盧損者

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Polychrome woodblock print of women in patterned kimono seated before a bamboo-patterned screen with paper lanterns.

江戸風俗十二ケ月之内十二月諸侯之奥年忘之図

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889

Woodblock print of armored samurai marching past pine trees and banners, with snow-capped Mount Fuji in the background.

瓢軍談五十四場五十四大尾久吉公目出度小田原を凱陣し給ふ

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a yellow fan, with Japanese calligraphy beside her.

忠孝加々見山

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors: one seated in blue robes with a fan and sword, one reclining in striped kimono.

番頭与九郎片岡十蔵・玉嶋逸当実ハ日本駄右衛門関三十郎・娘おなみ実ハ弁天小僧菊之助市村羽左衛門・鳶の者六吉嵐吉六・若従四十八実ハ南郷力丸中村芝翫

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1862

Japanese woodblock print of a rider in blue robes on a dark horse, with mounted archers and attendants in a roped arena.

千代田之御表犬追物

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a patterned kimono resting her head on her hand beside a red box and calligraphy.

見立多以尽ゆめにも見たい

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1878

Woodblock print of two women under blooming plum trees beside a bamboo fence, with figures and distant pines behind.

江戸自慢三十六興梅やしき漬梅

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1864

Woodblock print of swordsmen in blue and red attacking a wounded man in a purple robe beside a red lantern.

西海暴動電信紀聞〔神風連の輩種田政明少将の私邸を襲う〕

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1877

Woman in black kimono on a veranda in falling snow, with writing tablets and a brush beside her, in a Japanese woodblock prin

雪見八景帰帆

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a seated woman in a blue kimono beside a lattice screen, with a pine landscape inset and calligra

契情道中双〔ロク〕見立よしハら五十三つゐ尾張屋内重咲由井

Woodblock print of three women in kimono at a railing beneath cherry blossoms, with a red-trimmed veranda and a handwritten t

千代田之大奥船あそび

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1896

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono beside blossoming cherry trees, a large lantern and a palanquin.

新よし原仲の町の桜

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned robe and red kimono, seated beside a sword, with a text panel above.

善悪三拾六美人鬼神のお松

Toyohara Kunichika

Woodblock print of red maple leaves framing a waterfall, river, green hills and mountains at sunset, from an open book.

諸国名所百景泉州牛滝丹楓

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859

Woodblock print of a woman with an upswept hairstyle and gold hairpin, holding a pipe, with a street scene above.

時代かゞみ天明之頃

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1896

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono with red maple trees and distant hills behind her.

東海道五十三次之内二川小冬

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of an armored samurai with a spear bursting from a dark swirling wave under a pale moon.

新形三十六怪撰布引滝悪源太義平霊討難波次郎

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1889

Woodblock print of women in kimono viewing a painting in a veranda interior with a writing desk and tea set.

[琴棋書画]

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of Meiji-era officials in gold-braided uniforms and fur-trimmed hats, with a map and text panel behind them.

征韓論之図

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1877

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono beside a yellow parasol, with hibiscus, bellflowers and chrysanthem

葛の葉狐市川團十郎

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1891

Japanese woodblock print of two costumed figures, one grimacing and crouched, one standing, with a blue fan above.

ざしきげい茶番の当振三

Utagawa Toyokuni