EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialShimabara Courtesans Exorcizing Demons, ??????, Edo period (1615?1868), second half of the 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 34 1/4 ? 10 1/2 in. (87 ? 26.6 cm), Paintings, Miyagawa Issho (Japanese, 1689?1779), Two youn...
EditorialWoman makes a sand painting, A seated woman (actor Segawa Kikunoj? V (1802-32) in an unknown woman role), makes a sand painting on a sheet of lacquerware. Next to the painting are two spoons, a wooden spatula and a paint box on the far left. The painti...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
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...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialThe Willow Tree at the Gate of Shimabara Pleasure Quarter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 23.1 x 35.5 cm (9 1/16 x...
EditorialWillow Tree at the Gate of the Shimabara Pleasure Quarrter (Shimabara deguchi no yanagi), from the series "Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyoto meisho no uchi)". Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1829-1839. Dimensions: 10 x 15 in. Color wood...
EditorialShimabara Courtesans Exorcizing Demons, ??????, Edo period (1615?1868), second half of the 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 34 1/4 ? 10 1/2 in. (87 ? 26.6 cm), Paintings, Miyagawa Issho (Japanese, 1689?1779), Two youn...