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The print depicts a fisherman standing on a seaside cliff perfoming loneline fishing. There are great waves below him striking the cliff and there is a mountain in the background. The print mainly applies the color of white and shades of blue. The artist inscribed the title of the work along with his signature on the upper left-hand corner.
Katsushika Hokusai
A Solitary Fisherman at Kajikasawa, Kai Province (Kajikasawa, Kai)
1823 – 1829
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.150
Near dusk, a woman in a kimono walks outside a Japanese style building with a shoji screen for a wall. The silhouettes of merry-makers inside can be seen, revealing the figure of a man and also a woman, probably a geisha, holding an instrument that appears to be a shamisen.
Takahashi Hiroaki
Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen
1900 – 1921
Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
1991/2.110
A man ferries a passenger along a river at sunset. The buildings and stone walls along the river are reflected along with the colorful sky above.
Kawase Hasui
Crescent Moon (Matsue in Izumo)
1924
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/1.268
This vertical print frames a view of a landscape with an up close view of a bird in the upper right corner that takes up about thirty percent of the image.<br />The viewer is positioned alongside the bird, circling the sky above the twin peaks of a mountain. A crate floats in the water below while smaller birds flocking around it. Snow covers the ground.<br />The signature and title markings are in the upper right corner, and in the middle along the left side above the landscape.
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese (culture or style))
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: #107 Fukagawa, Susaki and the Jumantsubo Plain
1856 – 1857
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1960/2.143
People are standing on the huge arch bridge over water, viewing the boats with red lanterns sailing on the water.
Utagawa Hiroshige III
_sen Edo Meisho: Ryogoku Bridge, Evening Fireworks
1865 – 1875
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.143
The daibutsu, or giant buddha, statue takes up the bulk of the pictorial space. Curving upwards and towards the statue is a large pine. At the feet of the green hued daibutsu statue are three women of different generations: a young girl, an adult woman, and an elderly woman. Although a few clouds hover in the sky, the sun appears to be shining brightly, casting some shadows of nearby trees into the picture.
Kawase Hasui
The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at Kamakura
1930
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1982/1.203

Kobayashi Bunshichi
Night Snow at Kambara, after Andô Hiroshige
1890 – 1920
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.125
A man and a woman amble down the street under a crescent moon. The woman plays a stringed instrument, and a woman on a balcony above leans out to listen. Two small dogs in the street appear to howl up at the moon, perhaps joining in the chorus.
Takahashi Hiroaki
Evening Scene in Tokyo: Strolling Musicians
1900 – 1921
Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
1991/2.111
A circle of festival-goers dances under a full moon. They only appear in silhouette, but the shapes of their kimono and fans in hand can be seen.
Takahashi Hiroaki
Evening Scene in Tokyo: Bon Dance
1900 – 1921
Gift of Millard Pryor in Memory of Mary S. Pryor
1991/2.113

Elliott Erwitt
Mt. Fuji and Sign, Mt. Fuji, Japan, from "Recent Developments"
1977
Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin
1987/1.175.1
On the right hand side of the print, two figures are standing in front of a market shop, talking to the store owner. In the distance is another figure walking along the path, and beyond him is what appears to be another market stall with other figures. Writing in the upper left corner. Title in the upper right corner in a red box.
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese (culture or style))
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Gyôsho Edition): #15 Yoshiwara
1841 – 1842
Bequest of Alva Gordon Sink
1998/2.30
A man stewards a narrow boat carrying a passenger along a river. The houses and walls alongside reflect on the river's surface. The sky is nearly covered by gray clouds, but small patches of blue sky shine through.
Kawase Hasui
From "Souvenirs of Travels," third series
1924
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/1.267
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