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Omi Province: Lake Biwa and Ishiyama Temple (Omi, Biwako Ishiyamadera), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)"

View of Mount Fuji from Koshigaya, Province of Musashi (Musashi, Koshigaya Zai), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Hiroshige Kanesaka, Utagawa Hiroshige

Kung-ming's battle against Meng Huo - the Chinese model of a defeated army

Hiroshige II Suō Iwakuni. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Taganoura Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido (Tokaido Ejiri tagonoura ryakuzu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" ("Fugaku sanjuokkei")

NDL-DC 1312565 01-Utagawa Kuniyoshi-（新田左中将義貞兵庫に尊氏と戦う図）-crd

Utagawa Hiroshige - Ejiri, 19th century, Japan, Edo period

Utagawa Hiroshige - Satta Peak at Yui

A Distant View of Yokohama Honmura, the Licensed District, Noge Bridge, and Yoshida Bridge, from the Entrance to Yokohama near the Mountain Pass at at Noge Village

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Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodblock printing in Japan is a best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets. The Utagawa school (歌川派) was a group of Japanese woodblock print artists, founded by Toyoharu. His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century. Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, and Yoshitoshi were Utagawa students. The school became so successful and well known that today more than half of all surviving ukiyo-e prints are from it. Founder Toyoharu adopted Western-style deep perspective, an innovation in Japanese art. His immediate followers, Utagawa Toyohiro and Utagawa Toyokuni adopted bolder, more sensuous styles than Toyoharu and specialized in different genres — Toyohiro in landscapes and Toyokuni in kabuki actor prints. Later artists in the school specialized in other genres, such as warrior prints and mythic parodies. It was a Japanese custom for successful apprentices to take the names of their masters. In the main Utagawa school, there was a hierarchy of gō (art-names), from the most senior to junior. As each senior person died, the others would move up a step. The head of the school generally used the gō (and signed his prints) as Toyokuni. When Kunisada I proclaimed himself head of the school (c. 1842), he started signing as Toyokuni, and the next most senior member, Kochoro (a name also previously used by Kunisada I, but not as his chief gō), started signing as Kunisada (Kunisada II, in this case). The next most senior member after him, in turn, began signing as Kunimasa (Kunimasa IV, in this case), which had been Kochoro's gō before he became Kunisada II. (The original Kunimasa I had been a student of Toyokuni I.)

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utagawa sadahide ink paper printing blocks prints relief prints wood blocks woodblock prints edo period distant view distant view yokohama honmura yokohama honmura noge bridge noge bridge yoshida yoshida bridge entrance mountain pass mountain pass village utagawa ukiyo e japanese woodblock prints 19th century high resolution japanese asian art japanese art metropolitan museum of art japan
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1860
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Utagawa School of Ukiyo-e

The Utagawa school of Japanese ukiyo-e
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label_outline Explore Yoshida, Distant, Pass

A port bow view of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS VIRGINIA (CGN-38) underway during the NATO Exercise Distant Drum

Large harbor tugs encircle the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) as they spin the vessel around in preparation for backing it into a berth. The RANGER is visiting Japan for the last time while on its final deployment prior to decommissioning

Otsu: Distant View of Otsu and the Lake from the Kannon Hall of Mii Temple (Otsu, Miidera Kannondo yori Otsu no machi kosui chobo), no. 54 from the series "Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)," also known as the Vertical Tokaido

836th Transportation Battalion work alongside the 1st

Crew members man the rail aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) during a pass in review ceremony for officials of the Central America nation of Belize. On the right is the guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG 47)

[Hurricane Katrina] Pass Christian, Miss., December 29, 2005 -- A young couple brave the water of the Gulf of Mexico on this unseasonably warm day in Mississippi. Many beaches along the coast of Mississippi are still closed due to Hurricane Katrina. Mark Wolfe/FEMA

橫濱開港見聞誌|Observations on the Opening of Yokohama (Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi)

Fotoreproductie van (vermoedelijk) een tekening voorstellend een karikatuur van een zeeslag bij Yokohama tijdens het bombardement van Shimonoseki (1863-1864)

Yokohama tetsudō jōki shussha no zu

The amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) is moored to a pier following its arrival in port. The vessel has been deployed to the Persian Gulf area during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm

[Two Japanese women, full-length studio portrait with backdrop, standing, facing each other, holding hands]

Goka no Shō, Higo Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces

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utagawa sadahide ink paper printing blocks prints relief prints wood blocks woodblock prints edo period distant view distant view yokohama honmura yokohama honmura noge bridge noge bridge yoshida yoshida bridge entrance mountain pass mountain pass village utagawa ukiyo e japanese woodblock prints 19th century high resolution japanese asian art japanese art metropolitan museum of art japan