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Utagawa Toyokuni III and Utagawa Hiroshige I, Tosei Jikkasen Natsugiku, 1858, Ukiyo-e woodblock print collaboration

Tōsei Jikkasen – Natsugiku: Toyokuni × Hiroshig...

A luxurious collaboration between Edo's two greatest masters: Toyokuni III painted the kabuki actors, Hiroshige I painted the summer chrysanthemums — from the celebrated series 'Ten Fashionable Flowers' (1858), the...

Tōsei Jikkasen – Natsugiku: Toyokuni × Hiroshig...

A luxurious collaboration between Edo's two greatest masters: Toyokuni III painted the kabuki actors, Hiroshige I painted the summer chrysanthemums — from the celebrated series 'Ten Fashionable Flowers' (1858), the...

Utagawa Kunisada, Danjuro VII Benkei as Fudo Myo-o, c. 1824, Edo period Ukiyo-e surimono woodblock print

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō: Kunisada's S...

Utagawa Kunisada's extraordinary surimono (c. 1824) merges two of Edo's greatest power icons: the warrior Benkei and Fudō Myōō, the wrathful Buddhist guardian of the Ichikawa family — depicted through...

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō: Kunisada's S...

Utagawa Kunisada's extraordinary surimono (c. 1824) merges two of Edo's greatest power icons: the warrior Benkei and Fudō Myōō, the wrathful Buddhist guardian of the Ichikawa family — depicted through...

Utagawa Kunisada, Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Konoshita Tokichi, 1819, Edo period Ukiyo-e woodblock print yakusha-e

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Konoshita Tokichi: Kuni...

Utagawa Kunisada's 1819 masterpiece depicts the legendary Ichikawa Danjūrō VII in the role of Konoshita Tokichi — umbrella in hand, an arrow-shot duck clutching a letter, and the iconic Bashō...

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Konoshita Tokichi: Kuni...

Utagawa Kunisada's 1819 masterpiece depicts the legendary Ichikawa Danjūrō VII in the role of Konoshita Tokichi — umbrella in hand, an arrow-shot duck clutching a letter, and the iconic Bashō...

Torii Kiyonaga, Minami Junikko Kugatsu, Edo period, Ukiyo-e woodblock print bijin-ga

Minami Jūni-kō – September: Kiyonaga's Masterpi...

From Torii Kiyonaga's celebrated masterpiece series 'Twelve Months of the Southern Quarter', this September print depicts a Shinagawa courtesan gazing at fishing fires on the moonlit sea — a hauntingly...

Minami Jūni-kō – September: Kiyonaga's Masterpi...

From Torii Kiyonaga's celebrated masterpiece series 'Twelve Months of the Southern Quarter', this September print depicts a Shinagawa courtesan gazing at fishing fires on the moonlit sea — a hauntingly...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Tokyo Jiman Junikagetsu – Shichigatsu Kuruwa no Toro, Meiji era, Ukiyo-e woodblock print

Tōkyō Jiman Jūni-kagetsu – July: Kuruwa no Tōrō...

From Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's celebrated series 'Twelve Months of Tokyo Pride', this July print depicts a beautiful woman of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter against the glow of the Tamagiku Toro lantern...

Tōkyō Jiman Jūni-kagetsu – July: Kuruwa no Tōrō...

From Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's celebrated series 'Twelve Months of Tokyo Pride', this July print depicts a beautiful woman of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter against the glow of the Tamagiku Toro lantern...

Katsukawa Shunshō, Gonin Otoko (Five Heroes), 1780, Ukiyo-e woodblock print

Five Heroes Strike Their Pose — Katsukawa Shuns...

Katsukawa Shunshō's Gonin Otoko (1780) — five heroes strike their iconic pose in a masterwork of Edo Kabuki portraiture and theatrical spectacle.

Five Heroes Strike Their Pose — Katsukawa Shuns...

Katsukawa Shunshō's Gonin Otoko (1780) — five heroes strike their iconic pose in a masterwork of Edo Kabuki portraiture and theatrical spectacle.