Arts of Asia — Page 198

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Waitress at the Minatoya Teahouse

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769

Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)"

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1772

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (?) in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1772 (?)

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1772

Tachibanaya: Ichikawa Yaozo III as Fuwa Banzaemon, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I, 1794

Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1801/04

The View from Komagata Hall, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1782

Poem by Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Versions of the Six Immortal Poets (Imayo fuzoku rokkasen)"

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1776/81

Boy as Hotei, from an untitled series of children as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

Kitao Shigemasa, 1780s

The Daruma Overcoat (Haori Daruma), from "Three Pictures of Harmony (Waki sanpukutsui)"

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1725/30

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Chuko Ryogoku Ori, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1790

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1790

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Onami Disguised as the Dragon Princess in the Play Saki Masuya Ume no Kachidoki, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1778

Kaoru of the Shin-Kanaya, from the series "Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh as Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo)"

Isoda Koryusai, 1780

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Katakai in the play "Mugen no Kane Omoi no Akatsuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1746

Torii Kiyomasu II, 1746

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Soga no Juro, Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Oiso no Tora, Azuma Tozo III as Miura Katagai, and Otani Tokuji I as Danzaburo, in the joruri "Chidorigake Koi no Tamaboko," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1784

Torii Kiyonaga, 1784

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Ukita Sakingo and Sawamura Sojuro III as the ghost of the courtesan Takao, in the play "Ominaeshi Sugata no Hatsuaki," performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1788

Torii Kiyonaga, 1788

A Fashionable Female Version of the Shikisanban Dance (Furyu onna shikisanban)

Utagawa Toyokuni I, c. 1788/89

The Love Letter

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

The Actor Nakamura Riko I as Kiyotaki in the Play Oakinai Hiru ga Kojima, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1784

Katsukawa Shunkо̄, c. 1784

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Hiranoya Tokubei (?) in the Play Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1773 (?)

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1773

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Kitsune (Heavenly Child - The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1777

Shoki the Demon Queller

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1793

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tonase (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1787 (?)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, c. 1787

The Sumo Wrestler Kurogumo Otozô with the Teahouse Waitress Naniwa Okita

Katsukawa Shun'ei, Early 1790s

Parody of a scene from "The Pillow Book"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793/97

Buddhist Deity Vajrasattva with Bell (Ghanta) and Thunderbolt (Vajra)

Unknown, 18th century

The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767

Peonies, Magnolia, and Dandelions

Tawaraya Sôtatsu, Unknown

Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1881

Chickens and Drum

Rintei, n.d.

Foreign Mercantile House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan)

Utagawa Sadahide, 1861

Flower Arrangements

Unknown, active 17th century

The Ninth Month, from the series Five Amorous Festivals of Love (Aibore iro no gosekku)

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1801

Astrolabe

Islamic, Qajar dynasty (1786–1925), Late 18th century with later additions

Model of a Pigsty and Latrines

Unknown, Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), 100 BCE–100 CE

Transom panels (ramma) from the Phoenix Pavilion (Hōōden)

Takamura Kо̄un, 1893

Transom panels (ramma) from the Phoenix Pavilion (Hōōden)

Takamura Kо̄un, 1893

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/33

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1830/33