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Title: Aji River bridge/ 安治川ばし (Ajikawa-bashi)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Towering in the foreground is the back of a large junk ship in the harbor, in the lower right-hand corner to women on a small boat can be seen giving the Junk ship and even more monumental feeling. Behind the foreground ship are several other Junks leading to the bridge mention in the title. The silhouettes of various people can be scene crossing it.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Ships -- Japan -- Art; Harbors -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0016
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100867
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Title: Dojima Rice market
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Depicted is an extremely zoomed in view of a set of steps leading up to a gateway, the edge of which can be seen in the upper left. Three men are lower down the steps presumably on their way up to join the crowd already inside. The crowd is only seen from the waist down and closely packed together suggesting a chaotic scene. As the title suggests this is a scene from the Dojima rice market or rice exchange. This was the center of Edo system of rice brokers, which could be understood as the forerunning to the modern banking system.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Markets -- 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.U61_N3_0058
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100909
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Title: Enjoying the Cool of the Evening at Naniwa-bashi Bridge
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A pleasure boat filled with people passes under the towering foundations of Naniwa-bashi bridge. Some kind of algae or other vegetation hangs down from the bottom of the bridge. Further down, the river is filled with several other boats. Along the right side of the image teahouses and restaurants busy with patrons and decorated with red lanterns line the riverbank.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Bridges -- Japan -- Art; Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0061
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100912
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Title: Evening View of Hachiken’ya/ 八軒屋夕景 (Hachiken'ya yûkei)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A busy water side street scene. Crowds of people pass by the large dock on the right side. Long cargo carrying river boats unload at the shore. Down the river in the distance is a long bridge leading in and out of this area of the city. The sky is a faded grey-black gradient indicating it is evening as mentioned in the prints title.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Waterfronts -- Japan -- Art; Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0056
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100907
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Title: Evening View of the Tenjin Festival
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A colorful river scene. A large number of ornately decorated boats fill the okawa river. Large orang plumes from nearby celebratory fires fill the air. The scene depicts the Tenjin festival held every July since the 10th century. The festival is centered around Tenmangu shrine and dedicated to Sugawara MIchizane, the god of scholarship. The festival included both a land and river procession as well as large fireworks displays.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Festivals -- Japan -- Art; Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0063
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100914
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Title: Genpachi Ferry Terminal
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the lower left hand corner the titular ferry enters the frame filled with passengers. The whole midground is fill with open blue water leading back to the far shore. On the shore there is a road between two fields goes from the water's edge to a nearby village in the tree line.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0067
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100918
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Title: Hinokuchi in Tenma/ 天満樋の口 (Tenma Hinokuchi)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The top half of the composition is dominated the branches of brightly blooming cherry blossom trees. Bellow the branches a teahouse can be seen along the left side. A woman with her back to the viewer greets two people coming up the hill on the right. Bellow the hill is a wide waterway filled with various boats.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Tearooms -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0047
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100898
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Title: The Hyotei Restaurant in the Northern District/ 北瓢亭 (Kita Hyôtei)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the lower half of the image is a courtyard garden with small orange maples, ponds, and stone decorations. In the lower left-hand corner are structures that are either the tops of large lanterns close to the viewer or possibly a building structure like a garden pavilion. Various restaurant visitors mill about the garden. The building of the restaurant surrounds the garden on the right side and back of the image. Restaurant customers and staff walk around the outer halls overlooking the garden. In the upper left-hand corner, there is a monkey climbing a part of the building structure.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Courtyard gardens -- 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.U61_N3_0011
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100862
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Title: Ima-bashi Bridge and the Tsukiji Area/ 今橋つきぢの風景 (Ima-bashi Tsukiji no fûkei)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A small boat filled with cargo passes under a sharply arched bridge. Two men on the bridge look over the railing to greet the man on the boat. Behind the first bridge is a shorter bridge with a mother child crossing it. On the left shore is a large two-story building overlooking the water way.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Bridges -- 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.U61_N3_0055
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100906
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Title: Kado-za Theater at Doton-bori/ 道頓堀角芝居 (Dôton-bori Kado no shibai)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The bustling theater district is depicted as a crowded mass of buildings along the canal in Donton-buri. Various small boats fill the waters in the lower half of the composition. On the left side, the black bridge leading out of the frame is filled with people. Various colorful banners rise above the roofs of the buildings, advertising the various theaters and productions. The tiny figures of theatergoers and wealthy patrons fill the balconies overlooking the water. Kado-za was one of the major theatrical districts of Osaka where Kansai-style Kabuki was performed. Donton-buri is still a major city center in contemporary Osaka and some of the original theaters still exist in updated buildings.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Canals -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0026
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100877
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Title: Kawasaki Toshogu Shrine/ 川崎御宮 (Kawasaki Onmiya)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the lower foreground a pair of red crowned cranes stand along the banks of a small pond. To the left a small earth bridge crosses the pond to the far side. On the far side there is a stone lantern surrounded by various foliage and an organic rock formation evocative of Chinese landscapes and scholar rocks. On the right side, a path lead up and off the image. Kawasaki Toshiko shrine was for the Tokugawa family that was ultimately abolished in the 6th year of the Meiji.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cranes (Birds) -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0008
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100859
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Title: Kema/ 毛馬
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A man and woman ride on a small boat slightly obscured by tall reeds coming up from the water in the foreground. Further back a larger ferry ship is directed toward swore by a line of men pulling it in by rope. Several buildings and patches of vegetation filled the shoreline. In the background, lines of mountains are set behind a band of dark blue mist.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0048
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100899
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Title: Lattice Window in Shinmachi
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two men look through a large wooden lattice window into the display room of a brothel in the licensed red light district of Shinmachi. Inside are two courtesans, one either reading or write a piece of calligraphy and the other smoking a long pipe. The wall inside the display room is painted with an ornate scene of red crested cranes and waves against a golden backdrop.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Brothels -- 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.U61_N3_0065
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100916
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Title: Mishima-e/ 三嶋江
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A small bustling street scene. Various travelers including samurai, monks, and merchants, fill the street outside and large structure that is possibly an inn, teahouse or shop. The street runs along a waterway that is seen in the lower left-hand corner and it is lined with tall pine tree.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cities and towns -- 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.U61_N3_0053
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100904
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Title: The Mitsui Draper’s Shop/ 三井呉服店 (Mitsui Gofuku-ten)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A large building cuts diagonally across the image in a strong composition. The doorways of the shop are decorated with bright red and blue banners emblazoned with the shop's insignia. In front of the shop, the street is filled with various travelers and townspeople, including itinerant monks, families, and merchants. The inside of the shop is equally populated with customers and color-dyed cloth. In the upper left corner, a small cityscape can be seen above the roof of the shop to create a sense of distance.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Stores, Retail -- 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.U61_N3_0009
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100860
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Title: Myoken Temple Embankment in the North
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The two embankments of a small canal are lined with blooming cherry blossom trees. Beyond the embankments are open fields shrouded in mists and rendered in greyscale, allowing the foreground scene to stand out. In the sky a faint line of birds can be seen.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Canals -- Japan -- Art; Japanese flowering cherry -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0068
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100919
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Title: Nagara Mitsugashira/ 長柄三頭
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A group of men approach the shore of the lake in a small boat in the foreground. On the shore another man waits for the boats arrive. A small inlet separates the upper and lower section of the body of water. Along the left and upper half is a forested shore and the silhouette of mountains on the horizon.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Lakes -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0049
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100900
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Title: Night View of the Octopus Pine
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A small walking path is sandwiched between a water way and a city wall. It runs across the image diagonally form left to right, going back into the space of the image. in the foreground the large titular octopus pine takes up the left side of the frame and hangs over the water. On the path beneath it is the tiny figure of a passerby.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Pine -- Japan -- Art; Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0059
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100910
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Title: Pine Tree Point
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A group of four men ride a small boat in the fore ground. They are dressed in straw fiber cloaks and umbrellas to protect them from the rain. To the right is a tall wall that dwarfs the boat, at the top of the wall branched of willow tress hang over the edge. To the left further back in the image a stone inlet with a pine tree at the edge. In the background a large ship is pulled up onto shore at the docks that line the horizon. Two swallow fly in the sky above the scene.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Boats and boating -- Japan -- Art; Rainstorms -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0064
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100915
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Title: Resting Place of the Sacred Palanquin of Osaka Tenman-gu Shrine at Ebisujima/ 戎嶋天満宮御旅所 (Ebisu-jima Tenman-gû Otabisho)
Creator: Utagawa Kunikazu/ 歌川国員 (Signature: Kunikazu ga/ 国員画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the lower half of the composition is a river filled with multiple boats decorated for a large festival at the Tenman-gu Shrine. In the upper-half the towering torii of Tenman-gu is surrounded by the tiny figures of shrine visitors there for the festival. A thick pink mist hangs low over the scene. Past the mist is the dark silhouette of the tree line against the deep blue night sky.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Festivals -- 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.U61_N3_0014
Type: woodcuts (prints)
Collection: Japanese prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100865
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