Prints on Display Fall 2020

An image of two figures holding hands under a roof. The figures also have their arms wrapped around each other's shoulders. There is writing on the roof with the kanji for 'kami' 'ancestor' and 'road'
Japanese
Dôsôjin
rubbing: ink on paper
4 ft. 10 11/16 in. x 25 in. (149 x 63.5 cm);32 5/16 x 20 7/8 in. (82 x 53 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
Japanese
Rubbing of a Folk Carving: Patron Saint of Marriage (Dôsôshin), from Kami Imai, Higashi Chikuma, Shinshû Region
rubbing: ink on paper
4 ft. 7 15/16 in. x 25 7/16 in. (142 x 64.5 cm);29 3/16 x 22 1/16 in. (74 x 56 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer
Louise Nevelson
Flower Queen
etching and soft-ground etching with aquatint on paper
30 3/16 in x 22 1/16 in (76.68 cm x 56.04 cm);32 ⅛ in x 26 ⅛ in (81.6 cm x 66.36 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
An image of women walking down the street. The woman at the forefront is trailed by two young girls and another woman. They wear similarly pattererned kimono with geometric designs and orange and green coloration. To the right of them are two women talking to two men, one crouched behind the other, under cherry blossom trees. The women appear to wear kimono of orange color and patterened with leaves. The first man wears a black striped kimono and a sword hilt can be seen strapped to his waist while the man behind him wears grey. In the background is a building and a group of men walking about. In the center of the background, inside the building, a woman can be seen.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
A Courtesan followed by Two kamuro and Another Courtesan Behind, Sheet 5 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (a five sheet series)
color woodblock print on paper

Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
An image of  women walking down the street. The woman at the forefront is trailed by two young girls and another woman. They wear similarly pattererned kimono with geometric designs and orange and green coloration. To the right of them are two women talking to two men, one crouched behind the other, under cherry blossom trees. The women appear to wear kimono of orange color and patterened with leaves. The first man wears a black striped kimono and a sword hilt can be seen strapped to his waist while the man behind him wears grey. In the background is a building and a group of men walking about. In the center of the background, inside the building, a woman can be seen.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Two Courtesans Talking to a Young Man, Sheet 4 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (a five sheet series)
color woodblock print on paper
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Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Two Courtesans with a Companion and Two kamuro, Sheet 3 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (A five-sheet series)
color woodblock print on paper
14 1/8 in. x 9 3/4 in. ( 35.9 cm x 24.8 cm )
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
A color print depicting groups of women in kimono and men gathered under blossoming trees. The woman to the far right wears a dark kimono with an undistiguishable pattern. The next woman to her left wears a dark kimono with white dots. To her left is a woman wearing a kimono of multiple layers and single colors. She is surrounded by two girls with matching kimono. The final woman to the far left wears similarly colored material, though not as many layers. The man is wearing an outfit of geometric squares.<br />A group of one woman and two men is depicted in the back to the left while another group is entering the scene behind them. In gront of the large group are two men talking. Two men appear to be looking outside the screens of the building, and to the right of them is a group of three women and one man talking.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
A Courtesan and a Porter Carrying food, Sheet 2 from the series of "The Main Street of the Yoshiwara in Cherry Blossom Time" (A five-sheet series)
color woodblock print on paper
14 1/8 in. x 9 3/4 in. ( 35.9 cm x 24.8 cm )
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
This print depicts the interior of a theater. Several actors move about the set at the top of the print. Individuals in the audience are minutely detailed. Near the left of the stage, a pair of half-naked men brawl while an actor chides them from above. Near the bottom of the image, several in the audience smoke long pipes. A man holds the hand of a child on a raised platform near the bottom left of the print.<br /><br />
Inscriptions: Nishimura and unidentified others (​Publisher's seal); Torii Kiyotsune ga (Artist's signature)<br />
 
Torii Kiyotsune
Perspective Print of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater Featuring the Amakawa Scene of The Treasury of Loyal Retainers
woodblock print on pa[er
12 in x 17 1/2 in (30.48 cm x 44.45 cm)
Gift of Sharlynn and Andrew Circo, in memory of Sotokichi Katsuizumi
Tall color print of Hommon Temple. A bright blue sky characterizes the top portion of the image, getting darker in the lower registers. The spire of the red temple stretches up into the sky.
Kawase Hasui
Pagoda of Hommon Temple, Ikegami
color woodblock print on paper
17 7/8 in. x 8 1/2 in. ( 45.4 cm x 21.6 cm )
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
This print depicts a street scene in Tokyo, in which women, a child and a dog are portrayed.
Yoshida Tōshi
Ga no Tokyo: Shiroi kura [Pictures of Tokyo: Kikuzaka Street, White Storehouse]
color woodblock print on paper
10 5/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. ( 27 cm x 20 cm )
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
This print depicts the National Treasure Red Gate, from the series "Memories of Tokyo."
Maeda Masao
National Treasure Red Gate (Kokuhô Sekimon), from "Memories of Tokyo" (Tôkyô kaikô zue)
color woodblock print on paper
7 15/16 in. x 10 5/8 in. ( 20.1 cm x 27 cm )
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
This print shows a corner of the interior of a theater. A small part of the stage is visible, and two performers stand on the stage. To the left, engulfing the view of the stage, the balconies wind from the lower right to the upper left and fill the top third of the print. The audience is portrayed as dark strokes of seated figures that are not detailed or well defined. The audience sits in darkness.
Oda Kazuma
In the Imperial Theater (Teigeki nite)
lithograph on paper
10 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in (27.31 cm x 18.41 cm);19 in x 14 in (48.26 cm x 35.56 cm);12 in x 8 1/16 in (30.48 cm x 20.48 cm)
Gift of the artist, through Mr. and Mrs. Yoshito Yamamoto

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