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Japanese woodblock prints

Ukiyo-e

Floating-world prints from Edo Japan. Hokusai's waves, Hiroshige's rain, travellers on mountain roads. Flat blocks of colour, confident outlines, and weather you can almost feel.

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Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 Wild Geese Flying under the Full Moon Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1833 The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya Utagawa Hiroshige, 8th month 1857 Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi) Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1835 Water Scene Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1840 Sumo Wrestlers Kagamiiwa Hamanosuke and Koyanagi Tsunekichi, with Judge Sakaigawa Namiemon and Referee Shikimori Kiichirō Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1847–52 (Kōka 4–Kaei 5) Two Women Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1790 Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿, 1786 Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the Role of Kagekiyo in the Play Enlightenment from a Series of Portraits of Danjūrō Utagawa Toyokuni II, ca. 1834 Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke Utagawa Kunisada, 1829 Bun’ya no Asayasu (no. 36), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Bun'ya no Asayasu) Utagawa Kunisada, ca. 1844 Ichikawa Danjūrō II in the Role of Soga Gorō from the Play "Yanone" Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1790 Palindromic Poems (Kaibunka): Kyo Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1768 Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, ca. 1766 A Young Man and Women in the Moor of Musashino; Parody of the Akuta River episode of the Tale of Ise (Ise monogatari) Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1765–66 Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 Ōtsu, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi, Ōtsu) Utagawa Hiroshige, 1841–44 Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel, from the series Seven Beautiful Komachi Utagawa Toyokuni I, ca. 1794 Stone of Three Lights: Sun, Moon and Star Keisai Eisen, 19th century Cherry Blosson Viewing at Gotenyama Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1784 Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei) Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766 Kabuki Actor Morita Kan’ya VIII as the Palanquin-Bearer in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi) Tōshūsai Sharaku, 5th month, 1794 Use of Electricity during the Siege of Pyongyang Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1894 Courtesan Torii Kiyomasu I, ca. 1712