Utamaro | Appearing Again Naniwaya Okita UchidaArtist: Kitagawa Utamaro (c. 1753 31 October 1806)Date: ~179596 (20th Century Reprint)Publisher: UnknownTitle: Appearing Again Naniwaya Okita Saishutsu Naniwaya OkitaSeries: Renowned Beauties Compared to the Six Poetic Immortals Kmei bijin rokkasenMedium: Woodblock Print Mounted to CardSize: 12. 5 x 18cm A woodblock print mounted to a blank greeting card made of fine Japanese paper.
Medium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: 25
Theater: Kiri | 桐
Date: 1930s -1950s
Title: The Actor Matsumoto Kôshirô IV as Gorôbei
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 / Andō Hiroshige 安藤 広重 (1797 – 1858)Date: 1856Title: The Ferry at SakasaiSeries: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo | 名所江戸百景 | Meisho Edo HyakkeiMedium: Offset lithograph printed on traditional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: 25cm x 38cm (O-ban)
Title: Seba | 洗馬 | Seba
Mid-Twentieth Century Reprint
A scene from the bunraku play Shinpan Utazaimon: Osome Hisamatsu [The New Scandalous Ballad of Osome and Hisamatsu]
Shūeisha (1964)Title: Picking Plum Blossoms from a Neighbors GardenMedium: Offset lithograph printed on tradtional Japanese handmade washi paperSize: Envelope 31
Marked: Censor's seal | kiwame | 改印:極
The saturated colors and stylized forms in such prints helped inspire the Impressionist and Post-impressionist movements decades later
Title: Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Embankment at Koganei | 小かね井つつみの花盛 | Koganei tsutsumi no hanazakari