EditorialMinosaki in Bungo Province (Bungo, Minosaki), section of sheet no. 17 from the series "Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1852. Dimensions: 15 x 9.4 cm (5 13/16 x 3 7/16 in....
EditorialArmor (Do-maru), armor, ca. 1550; helmet, 18th century, Japanese, Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, gilt copper, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); Wt. of helmet 8 lb. 6 oz. (3799 g); Wt. of cuirass 23 lb. 9 oz. (10.7 kg), Armor for Man-1/2 Armor, This armor is beli...
EditorialPeony, Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Folding fan; ink on paper, 10 3/16 x 16 15/16 in. (25.8 x 43.1 cm), Paintings, Takahashi Sohei (Japanese, 1804???1835), Sohei, born into a merchant family in Bungo-han (present-day Oita Prefecture), b...
EditorialUtagawa Hiroshige, The Province of Bungo: Minosaki, Sheet 62 from the series: Famous Places of the approximately 60 provinces, color woodblock print, Total: Height: 36.70 cm; Width: 23.00 cm, signed: Signature: Hiroshige hitsu , Publisher: Koshimuraya ...
EditorialArmor (Do-maru), armor, ca. 1550; helmet, 18th century, Japanese, Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, gilt copper, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); Wt. of helmet 8 lb. 6 oz. (3799 g); Wt. of cuirass 23 lb. 9 oz. (10.7 kg), Armor for Man-1/2 Armor, This armor is beli...
EditorialBungo, Utagawa Hiroshige ???? (Japanese, 1797-1858), Edo, 1856 (Dragon 5), ink on paper, color woodblock print, 13-3/8 x 8-7/8 in., Signed: Hiroshige hitsu Censor's seal: arateme, other title, Subtitle: Minosaki, series, Famous Places in the Sixty-odd ...
EditorialMinosaki in Bungo Province (Bungo, Minosaki), section of sheet no. 17 from the series "Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1852. Dimensions: 15 x 9.4 cm (5 13/16 x 3 7/16 in....
EditorialArmor (Do-maru), armor, ca. 1550; helmet, 18th century, Japanese, Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, gilt copper, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); Wt. of helmet 8 lb. 6 oz. (3799 g); Wt. of cuirass 23 lb. 9 oz. (10.7 kg), Armor for Man-1/2 Armor, This armor is beli...
EditorialArmor (Do-maru), armor, ca. 1550; helmet, 18th century, Japanese, Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, gilt copper, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); Wt. of helmet 8 lb. 6 oz. (3799 g); Wt. of cuirass 23 lb. 9 oz. (10.7 kg), Armor for Man-1/2 Armor, This armor is beli...
EditorialPeony, Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Folding fan; ink on paper, 10 3/16 x 16 15/16 in. (25.8 x 43.1 cm), Paintings, Takahashi Sohei (Japanese, 1804???1835), Sohei, born into a merchant family in Bungo-han (present-day Oita Prefecture), b...
EditorialBungo fruit, mbungo, or rubber vine, Saba comorensis (Landolphia comorensis var. florida). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.