Japanese woodblock prints
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shunko
The Crows by Kunisada 1852
Eight actors in a Kabuki scene with Crows appearing supernaturally as the center character draws his sword.
Mitsukuni defying the skeleton spectre invoked princess Takiyasha - by Kuniyoshi
Sakata Kaidomaru Wrestling with Huge Carp in a Waterfall
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(Japanese, 1798 - 1861)
Image taken off the internet.
Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912
Eastern Brocades: No. 4 Lady Tamamo Azuma nishiki chuya kurabe: Tamamo no mae. Signed Yoshu Chikanobu with red toshidama seal. [Kotes. Chikanobu. Hotei 2006] Inset shows Hunting the 9-tailed fox
Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912
(her true form is reflected in the water)
Azuma nishiki chuya kurabe: Yoshida Goten
Yoshu Chikanobu
Eastern Brocades: No. 31 Kusunoki Masatsura Azuma nishiki chuya kurabe: Yoshida Goten
Signed: Yoshu Chikanobu hitsu with red toshidama seal
Published: kobayashi Tetsujiro, 09 January 1886
The warrior Kusunoki Masatsura (1326-1348) was the son of Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336) and both were lotay defenders of the emperors of the Southern Court (plate 178).
As a boy Masatsuna defended his home from curious creatures and spirits, as shown here. Later when he was about to go to his certain death in the Battle of Shijo Naware, he carved out a poem on the door of a temple in Yoshino using his arrowhead. Inset: Matsasura inspecting his death poem.
Ogata Gekko from Gekko Zuihitsu.
Publisher: Matsuki Heikiichi
Spirit of a Cherry Tree - ogata gekko -
Pure Snow Asano River
Tsukioka; Yoshitoshi 100 Aspects of the Moon 1885
![Artist: Yoshitoshi<br />
Series: Tsuki hyakushi [100 Aspects of the Moon]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Japanese-woodblock-prints/i-8KV8dfp/0/b24416aa/XL/Yoshitoshi_-_100_Aspects_of_the_Moon_-_91-XL.jpg)
Artist: Yoshitoshi
Series: Tsuki hyakushi [100 Aspects of the Moon]
c1915 aka The Dancing Fox by Ohara Koson 1877-1945
Hiroshige, Gathering of Magic Foxes
ogata gekko
Sadahiro, 1837, Arashi, Rikan, Sasahara, Hayato, play, Keise, Ogura, Shikeshi, performed, Kado, 1837
TSUNETOMI, Kitano "The Heroine Umekawa" (in the play "Meido no Hikayuki") aka "Woman in Snow." ca1923
Kuniyoshi recut
Sudden Shower at Atake Series; One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige (contemporary recut)
![Great Wave off Kanagawa - 1832<br />
by Hokusai [image taken offline]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Japanese-woodblock-prints/i-W4f2vfH/0/59e27c9d/XL/Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa%20-%20Hokusai-XL.jpg)
Great Wave off Kanagawa - 1832
by Hokusai [image taken offline]
100 Kabuki Roles by Onoe Baiko - Baiko Hyakushu no Uchi.
Artist: Masakado Kunichika Toyohara 1835-1900
Series: The Eighteen Famous Danjuro Roles
From the album set of well known "kabuki Ju-hachi Ban" series by Kiyotada and Tadakiyo. Printed with embossing, burnishing, shomen-zuri patterns, mica.
kuniyoshi (recut)
Yoshitoshi: From 100 Aspects of the Moon
Portrait of Ono no Komachi
sotoba botsuki
http://www.gotterdammerung.org/japan/literature/ono-no-komachi/
yoshitoshi, 1886
Portrait of Ono no Komachi
yoshitoshi 100 Aspects of the Moon
Shoen Uemura 1875-1949
Koson Ohara 1877-1945
Kawase Hasui reprint
Hasui
Helen Hyde 1914
woodblock print on India paper
Street Scene, Soochow in Kiangsu 1924/ Elizabeth Keith
Toshi Yoshida [block-signed)
Kami no mori (The forest of God) by Toshi Yoshida
Kami no mori (The forest of God) by Toshi Yoshida (posthumous)
original
Matsumoto by Toshi Yoshida
