13 UMMA Objects
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<p>pale brown-green silk fukuro (single-sided) obi with embroidered orange, yellow, and silver gunbai uchiwa (fan held by sumo wrestler referee) motif decorated with white, maroon, and pink wisteria, cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums, camellias,&nbsp; autumnal foliage, and orange ribbons with gold and silver cloud motifs.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.38
This photograph depicts an abstract composition of faceted dark shapes with red, orange and yellow edges. It was created by exposing a sheet of folded photographic paper to light and then developing it. 
Walead Beshty (American (North American))
3 Sided Picture (Yellow), November 26, 2007, Westwood, CA, Kodak Supra
2008
Museum Purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
2008/2.7
This high-contrast photograph of a nude woman reclining on a bed is taken from a low angle. Her legs appear larger than her torso, which extends into the background. A painting and ornate screen room divider are visible in the interior space behind her.
Bill Brandt (British (modern))
Campden Hill, London
1955
Gift of Two Friends of the Museum
1993/1.42
A print folded in half vertically, with a drawn horizontal line bisecting the fold. <br /><br />
EC 2017
Robert Whitman
Untitled, from "The New York Collection for Stockholm: 30 Artists"
1973
Gift of Mr. Robert Rauschenberg
1976/2.133
Ten-panel screen depicting similar mountain scenes over changing seasons. A spring scene begins on the right, gradually changing over the ten images to winter on the left. In an upper corner of each scene is a corresponding seasonal poetic inscription. These images are created using ink and color on paper, which was mounted on the upper two-thirds of each panel of the screen.<br />
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Artist Yi Sangbeom has chosen a traditional theme, &ldquo;Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers (瀟湘八 景圖),&rdquo; but this painting is infused with a Korean mood by his unique expression and brush strokes. This ten-panel folding screen depicts various landscapes in each of the four seasons (四季山水圖): panels 1 to 3 depict spring landscapes; panels 4 and 5 summer; panels 6 to 8 autumn; and panels 9 and 10 winter. The title (畵題) of each panel is written on its upper corner. Beginning from the first panel on the far right, the titles are as follows: &ldquo;The Joy of Fishing on a Spring River (春江漁樂),&rdquo; &ldquo;Spring Haze in t
Yi Sang-Beom
Landscape of the Seasons
1943
Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Seong H. Chi
2007/2.10
<p>Black formal chirimen haori with colorful dyed, patched, and interwoven folding fan motifs on the left front and back sleeves and on the lower back and front with a silk white inner lining with hand-painted pale floral designs. It has one family crest on the center on back.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Haori
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.36
<p>gold-beige houmongi kimono with interwoven sayagata (sauvastica, reverse swastika)&nbsp; patterning motifs with dyed and gold-embroidered oogi (fan) motifs with a white and orange cream inner lining.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kimono
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.72
<p>Lavender-beige Nagoya obi with interwoven gold and lavender cloud fog motifs and patched brown and narrative fans.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.384
A six panel folding screen depicting pairs of carp on each of the lower portions of each panel, and lotus blossoms.
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Lotus and Carp
19th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2014
2014/2.202
A man grabs the arm of another inside of a building.  The man on the right is neadly dressed in a black plaid robe.  He holds an open fan in his left hand.  The other man’s short black robe is half fallen off and reveals blue tattoos across his shoulders.  Both men wear swords.  <br /><br />
Inscriptions: Tsuribune Sabu; Issun Tokubei; Artist's signature: Toyokuni ga; Publisher's seal: Ryōgoku, Kamaki; Censor's seals: aratame, u 5<br />
 
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Mirror of Men and Irises: Kataoka Gadō II as Issun Tokubei and Morita Kanya XI as Tsuribune Sabu
1855
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Rosenblum
2011/2.61
In this print, a woman in a patterned blue robe with white seals holds a black sash in both hands.  She looks over her left shoulder.  Behind her, a white and blue cloth is tied to the lattice on a wall.  A cylindrical lantern sits on the floor.<br />
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Inscriptions: Artist’s signature: Toyokuni ga; Publisher’s seal: Akasaka Kichi; Censor’s seals: Ne 3, Mera, Watanabe; Mondo tsuma Oyasu
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Onoe Kikujirô II as Mondo's Wife, Oyasu; from Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon
1852
Gift of Herbert Barrows
2000/2.286
<p>gold-speckled pale green and cream colored Nagoya Obi with interwoven clouds with patched, gold-embroidered, and orange Oogi (fan) motif depicting a female figure wearing a red and blue kimono and holding a folding fan. There are illegible kanji written on one of the fans.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.41
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