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Yale University Art Gallery

18 works

Japanese woodblock print of three women in kimono walking with a blossoming branch and a wrapped box, with a fan above.

Hina Doll Festivity from the Five Festivals

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with hairpins resting her cheek on a cloth beside two men in kimono.

The Loyal League of Forty-seven Rōnin (Chūshingura), Act VI

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of a standing woman with a fan and two seated figures beside a latticed screen, with calligraphy above.

First singing of the utai: The Five Artistic Starts of the Year

Isoda Koryusai, 1774

Japanese woodblock print of a figure with an elaborate black hairstyle and hairpins, wearing a patterned kimono against gray.

The Actor Matsumoto Yonesaburō as Shinobu, Posing as the Courtesan Kewaizaka no Shōshō, from the play A Medley of Tal…

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of a woman with hairpins leaning over two men in kimono, soft pastel colors on a light background.

O-Karu, Kanpei and Hara Goemon: Forty-Seven Ronin Act VI

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1802

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one kneeling with paper scraps on the floor, the other standing with a fan.

Two Women, one cutting paper and the other watching

Isoda Koryusai, 1770

Woodblock print of a brown carp swimming upward through curving blue water currents, with signature at upper right.

Carp Swimming Upstream

Woodblock print of a small blue bird perched on a branch beside pale blossoms, with calligraphy at the top.

Red-Flanked Bluetail on a Cherry Branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830

Woodblock print of women in patterned kimono walking before a fence with blooming peonies and hanging wind chimes.

The Botan Show

Torii Kiyonaga, 1787

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in a circular frame, one in a blue robe and one in a patterned pink costume.

Actors Matsumoto Koshiro V and Ichikawa Danjuro VII

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1850

Woodblock print of whalers in boats chasing a breaching whale past green islands in blue sea.

Whaling at Gotō in Hizen Province, from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859

Woodblock print of a woman in an orange kimono with a green umbrella beside a stream, a frog and willow tree nearby.

Parody of Ono no Tofu

Suzuki Harunobu, 1764

Woodblock print of women in patterned kimono at a tea house, one reaching to a lattice shelf beside a red lantern and gift bo

Waitresses at a tea house (Ebisu-ya) :Twelve prints of beautiful women

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Fishmonger Gorobei from the play A Medley of Tales of Revenge

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Woman with green parasol walking against wind beside a bending willow branch, in a Japanese woodblock print.

A Windy Day in Summer

Suzuki Harunobu, 1766

Woodblock print of a seated bugaku dancer in red patterned robes and ornate headdress, with Japanese calligraphy above.

Bugaku Dancer in Genjōraku Role

Katsushika Hokusai, 1809

Three women in patterned kimono wade across a rippling river beside a yellow flowering shrub and green bank.

Girls Fording the Ide no Tamagawa

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

Woman reading a scroll by a window, with snowy pine branches framing the view in a Japanese color woodblock print.

Parody of Sun Kang, also known as Snow by the Window

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765