EditorialThe actor Bando Matataro IV as Gempachibyoe in the play "Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise" ("Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise"). Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 31.6 x 14.2 cm (12 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.). Color woodbl...
EditorialThe Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: L...
EditorialTsujigahana Textile with Horizontal Stripes, Flowering Plants, Fans, Snowflakes, Clouds, and Bellflowers, Japan, Momoyama period (15731615), Date ca. late 16th century, Japan, Plain-weave silk with resist dyeing and ink painting, 24 3/16 x 15 1/2 in. (...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with hot air balloon, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Antwerp side. On the short cut strip you can see a hot air balloon, which is originally part of a larger pattern that has been cut off. The balloon is made in a lattice so...
EditorialDress made of silk bobbin lace, blonde, with a high waist and very low-cut front and back panels, Dress from silk bobbin lace, blonde. High waist, very low-cut front and back. Puffed sleeves. Cone-shaped skirt, smooth at the front, wrinkled at the back...
EditorialThe actor Bando Matataro IV as Gempachibyoe in the play "Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise" ("Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise"). Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 31.6 x 14.2 cm (12 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.). Color woodbl...
EditorialThe Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: L...
EditorialHoutwerf in Fukagawa Fukagawa kiba (title on object) A hundred famous views of Edo (series title) Meisho Edo hyakkei (series title on object), Snow landscape with river in which floating pieces of wood, in the foreground a snowy umbrella and two dogs, ...
EditorialThe actor Bando Matataro IV as Gempachibyoe in the play "Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise" ("Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise"). Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 31.6 x 14.2 cm (12 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.). Color woodbl...
EditorialThe Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: L...
EditorialThe actor Bando Matataro IV as Gempachibyoe in the play "Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise" ("Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise"). Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanese, 1726-1792. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 31.6 x 14.2 cm (12 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.). Color woodbl...
EditorialThe Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Sakata Hangoro III (left), Possibly as Manazuru the Wife of Tametomo, Hojo Saburo Munetoki, and Kawanaya Tashiro, in the Joruri "Iwai-zuki Neya no Obitoki" (Inauspicious Months: L...
EditorialThe Courtesan Nagahama of the Owari House in the Brothel Quarter Shin Yoshiwara, from the series Comparison of Modern Snowflakes. Date: sixth month 1861. Dimensions: 38 cm x 26 cm.
EditorialCe est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 17 (recto), after 1527, Woodcut, Overall: 6 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (17.5 x 14.5 cm), Printed by Willem Vosterman. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of ...
EditorialOrnamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 17 (verso), 1554, Woodcut, Overall: 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (19 x 15 cm), Published by Matteo Pagano, Italian, 1515-1588, Venice, bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, British, active London after 1821. From top to bott...