EditorialWomen haori with night landscape and rooster, Haori for a woman with a decoration on the whole surface of a representation of an ox cart and two boxes for the shell game, in a nocturnal landscape with flowers, water, rocks and pine motifs, the lining o...
EditorialUkie naniwa tenmatenjin yomatsuri no zu, Perspective picture of the night festival at Tenman Tenjin shrine in Osaka., Utagawa, Toyoharu, 1735-1814, artist, [between 1764 and 1772], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.9 x 38.9 cm., Print shows a festival in h...
EditorialUkie naniwa tenmatenjin yomatsuri no zu, Perspective picture of the night festival at Tenman Tenjin shrine in Osaka., Utagawa, Toyoharu, 1735-1814, artist, [between 1764 and 1772], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.9 x 38.9 cm., Print shows a festival in h...
EditorialThe Stone Bridge over the Aji River near Nii Hill, Osaka (Osaka Ajigawa Niiyama ishibashi), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)". Yashima Gakutei; Japanese, 1786 (?)-1868. Date: 182...
EditorialBeauties of the Three Capitals: Shimabara in Kyoto (right), Yoshiwara in Edo (center), and Shinmachi in Osaka (left), c. 1755, Torii Kiyohiro, Japanese, active c. 1737-76, and, Torii Kiyomitsu I, Japanese, 1735?1785, Japan, Hand-colored woodblock print...
EditorialCourtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from Courtesans of the Three Capitals: A Set of Three (Sanga no tsu keisei sanpukutsui), c. 1748, Okumura Masanobu, Japanese, 1686-1764, Japan, Color woodblock print, ...
EditorialView of an Afternoon Downpour at Mount Tenpo in Osaka (Osaka Tenpozan yudachi no kei), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)". Yashima Gakutei; Japanese, 1786 (?)-1868. Date: 1829-183...
EditorialThe Actor Akizuki Sampei from Osaka Standing on a Galloping Horse (right), in the Play Dai Kyokuba. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1767-1777. Dimensions: 21.8 x 28 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.) (trimmed). Color woodblock print; aiban. Origi...
EditorialView of an Afternoon Downpour at Mount Tenpo in Osaka (Osaka Tenpozan yudachi no kei), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)". Yashima Gakutei; Japanese, 1786 (?)-1868. Date: 1829-183...
EditorialShips Entering Tenpozan Harbor (Tenpozan mansen nyushin no zu), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)". Yashima Gakutei; Japanese, 1786 (?)-1868. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 25.3 x 3...
EditorialThe Rain Shelter at Nii Hill by the Aji River, Osaka (Osaka Ajigawa Niiyama amayadori), from the series "Famous Places in Osaka: Fine Views of Mount Tenpo (Naniwa meisho Tenpozan shokei ichiran)". Yashima Gakutei; Japanese, 1786 (?)-1868. Date: 1829-18...
EditorialThe Actor Akizuki Sampei from Osaka Standing on a Galloping Horse (right), in the Play Dai Kyokuba. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1767-1777. Dimensions: 21.8 x 28 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.) (trimmed). Color woodblock print; aiban. Origi...
EditorialBeauties of the Three Capitals: Edo (right), Kyoto (center), and Osaka (left). Attibuted to Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Date: 1724-1734. Dimensions: 32.0 x 46.5 cm. Hand-colored woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, urushi-e. Ori...
EditorialOsaka. Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Setts. Osaka, 1847. Map of Osaka. Image taken from Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Settsu province.]. Originally published/produced in Osaka, 1847. . Source: 16084.c.12, sheet 1. Langua...
EditorialKabuki actors. Yakusha hyakunin isshu yoso-oi Kagami. {One hundre. Osaka, 1800. Two male Kabuki actors: Arashi Kichisaturo II (ron the right); and, Arashi Hinasuke II (on the left). Image taken from Yakusha hyakunin isshu yoso-oi Kagami. {One hundred ...
EditorialOsaka. Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Setts. Osaka, 1847. Map of Osaka. A detail showing Nakanoshima. Image taken from Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Settsu province.]. Originally published/produced in Osaka, 1847. . Sourc...
EditorialSea route from Hirado to Osaka, Japan. Shokoku kairiku anken zu [=Map of the Sea Route through Various Provinces]. c.1680-90. One of a pair of scrolls showing the sea route from Edo to Nagasaki. This section shows Hirado site of the English trading pos...
EditorialOsaka. Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Setts. Osaka, 1847. Map of Osaka. Image taken from Senshu Osaka zenzu [complete map of Osaka in Settsu province.]. Originally published/produced in Osaka, 1847. . Source: 16084.c.12, sheet 1. Langua...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 7 - Two commercial boats on the Yod...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era, Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 3 - The Sumiyoshi procession, a shinto festiva...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615), Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 1 - Two sailboats, one with a st...
EditorialOsaka Tenmangu sairei no zu, The Tenmangu Festival at Osaka, Edo period (1615?1868), 1834, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm); W. 15 in. (38.1 cm), Prints, Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786??1868).
Editorial?????????, Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin?oji Temple (Jin?oji engi emaki), Nanbokucho period (1336?92), 14th century, Japan, Section of a handscroll; ink and color on paper, 13 1/2 x 114 1/2 in. (34.3 x 290.8 cm), Paintings, Jin?oji is a sma...
EditorialThe Tale of Sumiyoshi (Sumiyoshi monogatari), Kamakura period (1185?1333), late 13th century, Japan, Fragments of a handscroll mounted as two hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper, Image (a): 11 3/4 ? 28 1/16 in. (29.8 ? 71.3 cm), Paintings, Anonymou...
EditorialStone Bridge over the Aji River, Osaka, Edo period (1615?1868), 1838, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm); W. 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm), Prints, Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786??1868).
Editorial????????, Writing Box (Suzuribako) with ?Dream in Naniwa? Design, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and silver inlay, H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm); L. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 ...
EditorialBoar, Meiji period (1868?1912), 19th century, Japan, Ivory inlaid with coral and small blue and white semiprecious stones, 1 1/8 ? 2 1/8 ? 1 1/8 in. (2.9 ? 5.4 ? 2.9 cm), Netsuke, Kohosai, The Osaka carver embellished the back of the boar with a decora...
EditorialUkie naniwa tenmatenjin yomatsuri no zu, Perspective picture of the night festival at Tenman Tenjin shrine in Osaka., Utagawa, Toyoharu, 1735-1814, artist, [between 1764 and 1772], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.9 x 38.9 cm., Print shows a festival in h...
EditorialUkie naniwa tenmatenjin yomatsuri no zu, Perspective picture of the night festival at Tenman Tenjin shrine in Osaka., Utagawa, Toyoharu, 1735-1814, artist, [between 1764 and 1772], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 25.9 x 38.9 cm., Print shows a festival in h...