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Japanese Prints from the Collection

Japanese Prints from the Collection

Cori Sherman, curator

North Balcony and South Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Highlights from the collection provide an overview of printmaking in Japan, from the early 1700s through 1971. Forty-three works on paper include a variety of formats, such as triptychs and other multi-sheet assemblages, a bound book, and a table screen. Most works are examples of the traditional color woodcut techniques popularized in Japan’s Edo period (1615-1868). The images included are of kabuki theater actors, pleasure district courtesans, famous places, historical events and a selection of ghost and demons.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Asayama Ashikuni (circa 1775–1818); Nakamura Utaemon III (1778–1838), Nakamura Utaemon III in six roles

Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), Kishū hidakagawa no tsuki kiyohime (Kiyohime and the Moon over Hidaka River in Kii Province)

Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), Yamashiro rokuhara yuki: dajō nyū dō jōkai (#14 Priest Premier Jōkai Looking at Snow in Rokuhara)

Suzuki Harunobu (circa 1725–1770), untitled (mitate on Kume Sennin)

Suzuki Harunobu (circa 1725–1770), The Courtesan Mitsunotsu of the Ōhishiya Burning Incense

Hiratsuka Unichi (1895–1997), Ikarugadera Temple in Early Autumn

Gosōtei Hirosada (active circa 1819–1863), Satomi Hakkenden (The Legend of the Eight Dog-Warriors of the Satomi)

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), #47 Fudō Waterfall at Ōji

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), #55 Komagatadō Azumakyō (The Komagatado Hall and Azuma Bridge)

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Hokusai manga shichi hen (Hokusai's Sketched Pictures, Volume 7)

Kakujujo Meirindō (active 1861–1864), Bandō Hikosaburō as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke as Okaru

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), Kyōto, Chion-in

Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), Sugawara no Michizane (The Poet Sugawara no Michizane)

Torii Kiyomitsu I (1735–1785), actors Hangorō II and Hikosaburō II

Kōkyo (active 1877–1904), Russian warships sunk by the Japanese Destroyers, Hayatori and Asagiri, at Port Arthur, 3 a.m. February 14th 1904

Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), Jūhachiban no uchi (The 18 Favorites)

Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), Scene from Banchō Sarayashiki

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), Prince Genji Amusing Himself on the beach at Futami

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), courtesans and attendants under a plum tree

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1864), Ariwara No Narihira as the Ghost of Seigen

Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865), Minikuchi eki goto kaigo no zu (A Gathering of Magicians at Minakuchi on the Tōkaidō)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), Gishi yo uchi rannyū no zu [The Night Attack (Scene 11)]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), Akaguchi [Red Mouth] (5 Shakku, not a good day)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), 政岡 Masaoka, #16 (The Spectre of Nikki Danjō)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861); Iba-ya Sensaburo, Nissaka (The Nightly Weeping Rock)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861); Kojimaya Jubei, #44 Kuwana Funanori Tokuzō no Den (The Story of Funanori Tokuzō and the Sea Ghost at Kuwana, #44)

Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889); Sawamuraya Seikichi, Jigoku dayū (Hell Courtesan)

Okumura Masanobu (1686–1764), Fūryū kume sennin (A Fashionable Depiction of Kume the Transcendent)

Nishimura Shigenobu (active 1724–1735), Migi: Kaku no Osan (Right: The Courtesan Osan)

Katsukawa Shun'ei (1762–1819), Portrait of the Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV

Katsukawa Shunkō (1743–1812), scene from the play "Shiten'ō ōeyamairi"

Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1792), actors with "Chronicle of the Future"

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754–1806), Tamaya uchi Hanamurasaki Sekiya, Teriha [Hana-murasaki of the Tamaya]

Kitagawa Utamaro (1754–1806), The Spring Horse Dance, New Years (Harugoma)

Yoshida Tōshi (1911–1995), Monument Valley

Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833–1904), Gods disguised as prospective customers of a brothel (demons disguised as brothel customers)

Yoshikawa Kanpō (1894–1979), The Actor Nakamura Ganjirō I as Kamiya Jihei

Utagawa Yoshikazu (active 1850–1870), Minamoto no yoshitsune taira no tomomori no rei ni au zu (Meeting of Minamoto no Yoshitsune and the ghost of Taira no Tomomori)

Matsui Eikichi; 月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Pine, Bamboo, Plum: Picture at Yushima

月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), The Sumō Wrestler Umegatani Tōtarō

和田彫勇 Wada Hori Yu (1857–1905); 綱島亀吉 Tsunashima Kamekichi; 月岡芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), 痛そう:寛政年間女郎の風俗 Ita sō: Kansei nenkan jorō no fūzoku (Looking in Pain: The Appearance of a Kansei-era Prostitute)

Utagawa Yoshitsuya (1822–1866), Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)