EditorialPlum-blossom viewing in the third month at Sumida River from the series, Annual Events at Famous Places in the Eastern Capital, (Toto meisho nenju gyoji sangatsu sumitagawa waka mode), Edo period (1615?1868), 1854, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; in...
EditorialNew Year Street-Performers, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNew Year in a Samurai Mansion, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album. Origin: Japan.
EditorialDelivering New Year Gifts in the Snow, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album. Orig...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Karigane Obun, Nakayama Tomisaburo I as An no Oyasu, Iwai Kiyotaro II as Kaminari no Osha, Nakayama Tatezo I as Gokuin no Osen, and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hotei no Oichi (right to left), in "Gonin Onna," Scene One of...
EditorialThe Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Aigo no Waka in the Play Chigo Sakura Jusan Kane, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1774. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1769-1779. Dimensions: 32.3 x 14 cm (12 11/16 x 5 1/2 ...
EditorialThree Komuso Monks: The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo (Danjuro V) as Kudo Suketsune (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Juro Sukenari (center), and Ichikawa Omezo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune (left), in Act Six of the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (Pale P...
EditorialThe Waka Murasaki Chapter from "The Tale of Genji" (Genji Waka Murasaki), from a series of Genji parodies. Okumura Masanobu; Japanese, 1686-1764. Date: 1705-1715. Dimensions: 27.3 x 39.7 cm. Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNew Year at Court, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album. Origin: Japan.
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hiranoya Tokubei (?) in the Play Waka Murasaki Edokko Soga (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1792 (?). Katsukawa Shun'ei; Japanese, 1762-1819. Date: 1787-1797. Dimensions: 28.5 x 13.5 cm (...
EditorialTamatsushima, from the series "Three Fashionable Young Women (Furyu waka no sannin)". Kikukawa Eizan; Japanese, 1787-1867. Date: 1806-1818. Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan.
EditorialNew Year Street-Performers, from the illustrated kyoka anthology "The Young God Ebisu (Waka Ebisu)". Kitagawa Utamaro ??? ??; Japanese, 1753 (?)-1806. Date: 1789. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album. Origin: Japan.
Editorial???, The Moon-Mad Monk, or Crazy Gazing at the Moon (Kyogetsubo), Edo period (1615?1868), 1789, eighth month, Japan, Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Overall: 9 15/16 ? 7 1/2 in. (25.2 ? 19 cm), Illustrated Books, Kitagawa Uta...