The State Museum of Oriental Art: Japan

Two-fold screen: 

Monkeys Trying to Catch the Reflection of the Moon

By Kano Toshun

17th century

Indian ink on paper

Height 185 cm; width 95 cm

The Falling of Rime-frost

By Hasegawa Nobuharu (1539-1610)

Indian ink and slight colour

54 × 35 cm

Triptych: Snow, the Moon and Flowers

By Eishi Chobunsai (1756-1815/29)

Colour on silk. 82.5 × 9 cm

Bamboo

By Ikeno Taiga (1723-1776)

Indian ink

130 × 52.5cm

Diptych: Spring and Autumn

By Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)

Colour on silk

102 × 34 cm

Theatre scene

By Torii Kiyonobu (1664-1729)

Woodblock print, hand-painted

30.8 × 14.5 cm

Actor as Cricket-seller

By Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

Woodblock print, hand-painted

25.5 × 36.5 cm

Sketches

By Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Indian ink

24.1 × 34.1 cm

Lotus-flower

By Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924). An album sheet

Indian ink and mineral pigments

52 × 60 cm

Hiroshige

Plum Estate, Kameido
From "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"
1857
Woodblock print
13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in.
The Brooklyn Museum

Utagawa Hiroshige: Ukiyo-e printmaker, painter. Was admitted at the age of fifteen to the studio of Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828), an artist with a preference for classical and landscape subjects. Also studied Nanga painting under Ooka Umpo, a pupil of Tani Buncho. In 1812 he adopted the name Hiroshige. The first prints to be published under his own name were bijin ga, a few surimono and landscapes in small format. It was only after 1830 that he started making landscape prints in oban format. In 1832 he accompanied the annual procession from Edo to the emperor in Kyoto along the Tokaldo which resulted in his famous series 'Fifty three stations of the Tokaido'. Many highly successful series would follow such as 'Hundred views of famous places in Edo' and his last and posthumously published series 'Thirty six views of mount Fuji'. Huge editions of his prints were generally made, and only the fine early impressions do full justice to Hiroshige's artistic talents. Hiroshige's work was very popular in the West during the late nineteenth century and definitely influenced the Western view of Japan.

 - From The beauty & the actor: Ukiyo-e