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This print shows a seated audience at a theater. The three most visible figures wear kimono, the obi tied in the back, and kneel overlooking a balcony above the stage. The figures in the foreground are more clearly defined, the outlines of the figures in the background blend into one another to create a dark undefined area.
Oda Kazuma
Theater Going (Kangeki)
1920
Gift of the artist, through Mr. and Mrs. Yoshito Yamamoto
1950/2.4
Circular tsuba, made of iron. It has two holes in the middle. Two figures, Kanzan and Jittoku, are carved on the lower right corner. Kanzan, who holds a scroll on his hand, and Jittoku, who holds a bloom stick and pointing to the sky, are looking upward. The two figures are carved slightly higher than the surface. On the back, there is the moon partially obscured by clouds. Gold and silver alloy inlays are applied to the moon and the clouds. Gold is also inlayed in their eyes, parts of the garments, and Kanzan's scroll. Shakudô (copper-gold alloy) is inlayed in Jittoku's bloom and his jacket collars.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Tsuba (sword guard) with design of Kanzan (Chinese, Han Shan) and Jittoku (Chinese, Shihde), two Zen eccentrics
1700 – 1732
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Weston
1978/2.5
Black abstract print on tan paper with relief border around all sides. Horizontal relief in abstract shape on lower half of paper.
Keiichi Hayano
Passage 1
1975 – 1985
Gift of Marvin Eisenberg
2012/2.106
This hanging scroll depicts Monju (Sanskrit: Mañjuśrī), the bodhisattva of wisdom, seated on a lotus pedestal, holding his typical attributes of a vajra sword and a scroll. His typical lion mount is depicted underneath the base of lotus surrounded by peonies.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Bodhisattva Manjusri (Monju Bosatsu)
17th century
Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
2006/2.10
A set of brown silk male kimono with two symbols of a flower inside a cicle in the front, and one image of the same symbol on the back.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Male Kimono, Brown
1900 – 1932
Gift of Victor and Pat Munoz
2009/2.102.1
A girl with her head in profile, her brown hair is highlighted with white strands, red columns of dots, and red, blue, black, and gold curls. In front of her is a blue, yellow, and red patterned butterfly; above it is a white dotted horse. The background is a faded bworn and gold with red, orange, and blue horizontal stripes.
Nakayama Tadashi
Watashi no gogo (My Afternoon)
1975
Gift of Sheila and Ronnie Cresswell
2011/2.31
This woodcut has an image of a girl, from about mid-torso, looking over her shoulder from behind. She has short hair and faces off to the right of the page. On off-white paper, the print uses two color blocks: black graphic on red background. The print is signed (l.l.) "Kiyoshi Saitô" in white ink, and titled, numbered and dated in pencil (l.c.) "GIRL (D)  33/100  1967".
Saitō Kiyoshi (Japanese (culture or style))
Girl (D)
1967
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson
2008/2.183
Japanese style ink painting of a pot with vegetation inside of it next to a stone. The image is colored, with the rock painted in a grayish ink and the vegetation a green color. The pot has no color but is outlined in black ink only. There is writing in the top right corner of the paper.
Takahashi Suigaku
Pot and Stone
1833 – 1866
Gift of John Campbell
2009/2.101
Japanese kimono made with light pink color silk. It has silver sewings with pattern of flowers on it.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Kimono
Gift of J. Valenta, class of 1955
2010/1.313.1
Japanese style color print on woodblock.
Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese (culture or style))
Oban
1845 – 1850
Gift of Sharlynn and Andrew Circo, in memory of Sotokichi Katsuizumi
2011/2.190
This is an abstract multi-colored woodcut print with visible wood grain. The background color is primarily peach. The colors in the print, including blue, green, yellow, white, orange, and brown, appear to drip down and run into each other. <br /><br /> This is 18th in an edition of 30.
Helen Frankenthaler (American (North American))
Tales of Genji I
1998
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1998/2.18
<p>Light beige Fukuro (single sided) obi with gold brocade featuring geometric, floral, and animal motifs.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.376
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