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Seguito delle battaglie e delle conquiste di Menphtah I [Seti I], rapp...

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Seimei shoka zukan = The River Festival

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Genji Monogatari Emaki - Scene 1a

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Front cover, no. 1 - A newspaper with a picture of a man on it

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The oiran Adzumaya and Kokonoye and attendants in the house called Mat...

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View of Yokohama - Public domain drawing

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Oume, Kumenosuke = [Oume and Kumenosuke], Kitagawa Utamaro

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The oiran Koimurasaki and Hanamurasaki and attendants in the house cal...

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Uwaki no sô = [The fancy-free type], Kitagawa Utamaro

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Chûbon no zu = [Picture of the middle class]

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Utagawa Hiroshige - Fuchu. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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Genji Monogatari Emaki - Scene 6b

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A woman carrying a large koto which her daughter is presumably about t...

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Two women dressing a youth for a game of football

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Genji Monogatari Emaki - Scene 5a

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Ise Monogatari Emaki, Scroll I.

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Scroll 2, scene 31. 18th Century Japan. Public domain image.

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Woman with fan (Fukurokuju?), Yashima Gakutei

Yashima Gakutei (Born: 1786, Osaka, Japan, Died: 1868, Osaka, Japan) was an artist and poet who was a pupil of both Totoya Hokkei and Hokusai. Besides his Ukiyo-e prints, Gakutei was known for his kyōka poetry,... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Maisaka, Imagiri shinkei

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Ise Monogatari Emaki, Scroll II.

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Ise Monogatari Emaki, Scroll II.

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Utagawa Hiroshige - Narumi, Meibutsu Ari matsu shibar

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Utagawa Hiroshige - Yokkaichi. 19th century Japan. Public domain image...

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Mayasan Temple At Kobe. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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A samurai taking his young son to a shinto temple for the Miya Mairi c...

Kiyonaga is considered one of the great masters of the full-color nishiki-e print and of bijin-ga, images of courtesans and other beautiful women. Like most ukiyo-e artists, however, he also produced a number o... More

Ise Monogatari Emaki, Scroll II.

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Utagawa Hiroshige - Ishibe, Migawa no sato

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Scroll 3, scene 41 - Public domain dedication image

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Ise Monogatari Emaki, Scroll III.

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Half length figure of a young man who is tying his obi and looking dow...

Utamaro was born in 1753 in Edo (Tokyo) and died in 1806. He is considered the leading Japanese printmaker and painter of bijin. Utamaro started his career as a student of the master painter Toriyama Sekien. Ut... More

A girl visiting a chrysanthemum show

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

River with boulders.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Ejiri. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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Fuji from Kawaibashi.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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View of Hakone.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Ise monogatari = The Tales of Ise.

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Oriental Hotel at Bund of Kobe.

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Ise monogatari = The Tales of Ise.

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Ise monogatari = The Tales of Ise.

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Ohanasan playing "go" game.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Yoshiwara women in a room in a joroya, playing the fan throwing game (...

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Family seated on a bench.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Boys with hoops.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Ise monogatari = The Tales of Ise.

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Women brushing silkworm eggs from the cards into the feeding trays

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

General post office, Nagasaki.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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"Sohrinto" Monument, Nikko.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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View of Amida Temple, Osaka.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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View of Matsushima, Osaka.. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

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Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo, Shunsho Katsukawa

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began ... More

Temmangu Shrine at Kameido. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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Lady playing shell game (looking right)

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Lady with stringed instrument and books

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Women returning from a flower viewing excursion - Koryusai Isoda

Unlike almost any other Japanese printmakers, Koryūsai was a samurai. He was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of... More

A party of merrymakers at a tea-house in the Yoshiwara

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Santô Kyôden at a Daimyo's Mansion, Kitagawa Utamaro

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Group of women in a room in a palace, watching a monkey dance while a ...

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Figures of Jingo Kogo and Takenouchi, Ryu Ryu Kyo Shinsai

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Yujo, Totoya Hokkei, Hokkei Totoya

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Dance of Fuji-musume. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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Kintaro and the eagle - Public domain portrait print

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Courtesan and attendant; samurai armor in background

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Pharmacie ivoire. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pictures of the most celebrated caligraphers of China and Japan

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Dancing girl with shamisen, Katsushika Hokusai

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Hyakujutei, Katsushika Hokusai - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Midori no Matsu-fuguri, Katsushika Hokusai

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Gazing at Fuji-san across the Sumida River

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Sake flagon and glass, Katsushika Hokusai

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Court ladies variously occupied, by Nishikawa Sukenobu

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Plum blossoms, dandelion and Sakuraso, by Nishikawa Sukenobu

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Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai

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Carpenter's New Specimen book, Katsushika Hokusai

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Kyoka Hyaku nin Isshu (Literary celebrities), Katsushika Hokusai

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In Sunny Japan, Japan, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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The oiran Hanaogi of Ogiya. She is compared to the famous ninth centu...

Utamaro was born in 1753 in Edo (Tokyo) and died in 1806. He is considered the leading Japanese printmaker and painter of bijin. Utamaro started his career as a student of the master painter Toriyama Sekien. Ut... More

Ichimura Takeno jo in the role of the oiran Shosho

Torii Kiyomasu II (鳥居 清倍, c. 1720–1750), like the rest of the Torii artists, in billboards and other images for the promotion of the kabuki theatres. His prints, like many at the time, were made largely using... More

A young man performing the purification ceremony of hand washing at th...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

The armies of the allied powers besiege Tientsin (Boxer Rebellion)

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A young woman seated upon a bank getting a light for her pipe from a y...

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725 – 15 July 1770) was the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu was from ... More

Bijin caught in a shower, Utagawa Kunisada

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Ichikawa Danjuro VII, with hand on hilt

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Women examining clam shells with paintings inside prepared for playing...

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Three actors as samurai before bamboo screen, Utagawa Kunisada

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Yu the Great (King Yu of the Xia Dynasty) Fights a Flood Dragon

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Votive tablet with pictures of No dancers, Kubo Shunman

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Selected images from Teikin Orai and Onna Inagawa

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Genealogical scroll of the rulers of Mewar

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Infantry Second Lieutenant Tawara Kyujiro

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Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Date no Yosaku

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Horse race at Shinobazu Pond. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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Nô jûgoban - Private theatricals- one standing, one seated figure

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Tawara Toda, the slayer of the monster centipede

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The poetess Murasaki Shikibu, Yashima Gakutei

Yashima Gakutei (Born: 1786, Osaka, Japan, Died: 1868, Osaka, Japan) was an artist and poet who was a pupil of both Totoya Hokkei and Hokusai. Besides his Ukiyo-e prints, Gakutei was known for his kyōka poetry,... More

Two women serving man drinking from deep bowl

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Banzai! for the great victory of the Imperial Navy in the Russo-Japane...

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Two court ladies with caged bird, Katsushika Hokusai

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The fountain of youth. 1920s Japan, public domain image.

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Scrap Book, Volume 6, p.81 Alexander Anderson scrapbooks

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The 52 Stages of Printmaking

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