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Title: Akasaka: On the Nawate Road, Yajirobei Takes Kitahachi for a Fox and Beats Him/ 赤坂縄手道にて弥次郎北八を狐とおもひててふちゃくする (Akasaka, Nawatemichi ni te Yajirobei Kitahachi o kitsune to omohite chochaku suru)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A road lined with tall pine trees cuts through vast rice fields, a crescent moon hangs overhead hidden slightly by the trees. In the foreground, one man beats the other with a stick, the print title tells us their names are Yajirobei and Kitahachi. Yaji and Kita are the main characters of a popular comical novel titled Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (abbreviated to Hizakurige) written by Jippenshu Ikku. The book recounts the two men’s misadventures along the Tokaido road. In this scene Yaji has mistaken Kita for a fox spirit or Kitsune, which are known in Japanese folklore to be powerful tricksters.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Rural roads -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0037
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100650
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Title: Akasaka/ 赤坂
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A bird's eye view of a nighttime street scene. Various travelers pass on the road in front of a story Inn. Female inn attendants try to bring guests inside. On the second floor of the inn, the various rooms have their doors open revealing small vignette scenes of the guests and staff inside.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Taverns (Inns) -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0038
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100775
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Title: Akasaka/ 赤坂
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Village scene with a road running through the center lined with towering trees and a grassy hill on either side in the foreground. Farther back on the road in the village street with low stone walls marking the beginning of the town. Above the whole scene is the full moon just slightly right of center in the sky.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Villages -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0037
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100831
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Title: Arai: Ferryboats Arriving at the Checkpoint/ あら井渡舟着岸御関所 (Arai, Wataribune chakugan gosekisho)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Looking down from the hill a village and temple entrance can be seen by the water. A line of ships leads the eye all the way to the opposite shore where the white silhouette of Fuji rises above the hills.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0032
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100645
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Title: Arai/ 荒井
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A view from on top of a hill overlooking the water and Mt. Fuji in white on the distant shore. The equally white sails of the ferry boats lead the eye back to Fuji. Right below the hill on the immediate shore travelers wait for the boats crossing the water toward them.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Coasts -- Japan -- Art; Fuji Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0033
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100770
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Title: Arai/ 荒井
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A group of travelers disembarks from a ferry on the right. Out in the water, other ships sail back and forth between the shores. To the left is a teahouse with a few pine trees around the building.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Shorelines -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0032
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100826
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Title: Asuka hill in the Eastern Capital/ 東都あすか山 (Toto Asukayama)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored print), ink and color on paper. Residents of Edo mingle on the open lawn surrounded by pines and cherry blossoms on Asuka hill. Just past the park is the shops of Edo and Mt. Fuji framed by the trees in the foreground. The compsoition is divided by the gradient blue sky and the vibrant green grass. The smooth contour of the hill seperates the two sections. Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune planted cherry blossoms and opened the hill for the citizen of Edo. Later in 1873 Asuka would become one of the first public parks established in Meiji Japan. Site located in Oji, Kita, Tokyo.
Series: Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji/ 富士三十六景 (Fuji Sanjurokkei)
Subject: Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_F8_0009
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100585
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Title: Autumn Moon at Tama River/玉川秋月 (Tamagawa Akitsuki)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Fishermen line the softly sloped shores of Tama river. Willow tree branches blow delicately in the wind along with sparse river grasses. In the back the full moon hangs over the scene. In other versions of this print the moon is rendered with mica which is a metallic pigment that creates a striking shimmer in the print. The Tama river ran along Edo’s western border and in opposition to the Sumida that ran through the city and had metropolitan associations, the Tama had more rustic, poetic associations. It evokes images of the empty Musashino moor and the autumn moon. Poem signed Asanoyadō Massugu: The image of the moon in the autumn night which is luminous as day/ lingers on the Tama stream as the river lingers by the Twin Pines. (Translation by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0007
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100575
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Title: Cherry Blossoms at Honmoku in Musashi Province/ 武蔵本牧のはな (Musashi honmoku no hana)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A sheer cliff face topped with pine trees in the foreground creates an immediate and strong composition. This monolith feature creates a doorway to view the bay leading to the shore of Honmoku where cherry blossoms can be seen blooming in a bright patch of pink at the base of Mt. Fuji. Fuji is stark white outlined by a fukibokashi gradient of red. Site located in Honmoku, Naka, Yokohama.
Series: Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji/ 富士三十六景 (Fuji Sanjurokkei)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_F8_0017
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100593
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Title: Chiryu: The Former site of the Irises at Eightbridge Village/ 池鯉鮒八つ橋村杜若の古蹟 (Chiryu, Yatsuhashimura kakitsubata no koseki)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Travelers rest by one of the two twisted ancient pine trees that hang over the water. Behind the group of travelers, a small stone pagoda is framed in the curve of one of the trees. The title of the print indicates that this was once the site for the irises at Yatsuhashi which is a reference to The Tales of Ise. In the story the unnamed protagonist encounters an eight plank bridge over a river surrounded by irises and he composes a romantic poem.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Rural roads -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0040
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100653
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Title: Chiryu/ 地鯉鮒
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A procession of six porters carrying luggage for a shrine or festival walks the path under cryptomeria trees that line the path. In the distance, there are miles of rice fields and mountains on the horizon.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Processions -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0041
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100778
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Title: Chiryu/ 池鯉鮒
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A procession of sacred horses enters the village street from the right side. People watch from the shops and tea houses along the left side of the image. Behind the row of buildings large dark tress hang over the scene, slightly bending in the wind.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Processions -- Japan -- Art; Villages -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0040
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100834
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Title: Clearing Weather at Shibaura/ 芝浦晴嵐 (Shibaura Seiran)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two boats are moored at Shiba Bay along the right side. Clouds drift close to the horizon line and allow the silhouette of the trees to stand out. The orange glow of the clouds indicate the approaching evening. Buildings line the banks of the bay on the left side. Poem: Dead leaves on Gotenyama Hill/ Are blown up the the sky by the wind./ Fishing boats are scattered away/ On the bay of Eo at Shibaura.
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0003
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100571
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Title: Descending Geese at Haneda/ 羽根田落雁 (Haneda Rakugan)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Geese descend down to the marshy land of Haneda. At the center of the composition in a tree filled grove a shrine is marked by the torii gate at the end of the grassy path. Two figures can be seen walking away from the shrine. In the distance sails can be seen just past the marsh grasses. The area depicted in this print would become the site for Tokyo’s Haneda airport today. Poem: Over the marsh at Haneda/ Wild geese are descending/ Like a ladder from the sky (Translation by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Marshes -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0006
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100574
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Title: Ejiri: Tago Bay and Miho no Matsubara/ 江尻田子の浦三保之松原 (Ejiri, Tago no ura, Miho no matsubara)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground small boats are pulled onto the shore along the Okitsu River. Alongside the two bats are fishing nets hung up, not yet in use. Sailing ships travel down the wide bend in the river, the sails completely unfurled. In the back Fuji is surrounded by wafting blue and red clouds.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0019
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100632
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Title: Ejiri/ 江尻
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The white sails of boats fill the waters in the midground of the image. In the foreground at the bottom of the image the small figures of fishermen idle on the green forested shore. Beyond the water are the foothills of Fuji rendered in shades of soft salmon pink. On the horizon at the center is My. Fuji is white and grey against a blue, yellow gradient sky.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0020
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100757
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Title: Ejiri/ 江尻
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Travelers walk the road in the foreground that is lined with houses and two large trees. To the left of the road are open green fields. The roofs of other buildings can be seen further back in the fields and the base of two green hills lined with pin trees. Fuji rises in the v created by the two hills. Clouds wrap around the base, revealing only its snow capped top.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0019
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100813
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Title: The Entrance gate at Enoshima in Sagami Province/ 相摸江之島入口 (Sagami Enoshima Iriguchi)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Three women pass under the torii gate of Enoshima shrine on Enoshima island, a popular tourist spot even today. The three women are dressed in matching Yukata likely provided by the inn they are staying in. The building just off to the left could be said inn. Out in the water, boats ferry people between Enoshima and the mainland. In the distance Fuji sits framed by the torii gate. Site located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa.
Series: Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji/ 富士三十六景 (Fuji Sanjurokkei)
Subject: Shrines -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_F8_0021
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100597
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Title: Evening Bell at Ikegami/ 池上晩鐘 (Ikegami no Bansho)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Depicted is the Ikegami Honmonji temple that was completed in 1282 and founded by Buddhist priest and philosopher Nichiren. The site is thought to be where Nichiren passed away. This is referenced in the accompanying poem that mentions the founder going to Nirvana. The landscape is rendered in a series of dark and washed out blues creating a misty poetic quality. The red temple building stands out among the forest grove it is settled in. At the foot of the hill is a small town occupied by temple visitors and vendors. Poem signed Shunkutei Tareyasu : By virtue of the truth of the Eight Scrolls,/ One prolongs one's age./ The founder of the temple went to Nirvana/ as the evening bell was striking. (Translation by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Temples -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0004
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100572
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Title: Evening Glow at Koganei Border/ 小金井橋夕照 (Kogane ihashi yushou)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Cherry Blossoms line the banks of the Koganei River. Travelers traverse the neighboring road and cross the bridge. Some have stopped to picnic and take in the view on rest platforms under the cherry blossoms on the right side. The horizon glows a faint orange and the accompanying poem reveals that it is sunset. Poem signed Taihaido Donsho : The glow of sunset at the end of a cloudy spring day/ Foretells tomorrow's weather in Koganei,/ Where cherry blossoms are in full bloom. (Translation by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Series: Eight views of the Environs of Edo/ 江戸近郊八景之内 (Edo Kinko Hakkei)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_E4_0001
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100569
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