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A Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) a/ The Story of Hashidate
Hanshita-e (preparatory line drawing) oban
Fred and Isabel Pollard Collection AGGV
b/ The Story of Hashidate woodcut oban Asian Art Purchase Fund
AGGV 85.10
B Detail of Woodblock signed Kunifusa (19th century) cherry wood AGGV 85.21
Print from woodblock C Kento or guide marks
D Bunzaku (Sawamura Sojuro, etc. in playbill) (ca. 1800) woodcut
Stuart Jackson Gallery, Toronto
E Ikeda Eisen (1790-1848)
Two Lovers woodcut oban Private Collection
F School of Utamaro, 19th century Violation Scene woodcut oban Asian Art Purchase Fund AGGV
G a/ Detail of painting by Degas/
Manga sketch by Hokusai b/ Hiroshige print/van Gogh painting
Ukiyo-e Print Formats
their approximate dimensions (centimetres)
Ch�ban (�medium-sized print�) 25.5 x 19.0 Hoso-e or Hosoban (�narrow picture�) 33.0 x 13.0 Tanzuku (�narrow strip print�) 38.0 x 13.0
Oban (�large print��
the standard size) 38.0 x 25.5
Hashira-e (�pillar picture�) 73.0 x 12.0
Kakemono-e (�hanging picture�) 76.5 x 23.0
Colour Plates
FRONT COVER
Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921)
Woman Making Up 1918 woodcut 51.1 x 36.3 cm Gift of Dorothy Howland AGGV 85.28
BACK COVER
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
Head of a Woman woodcut oban
Gift of Misses A. and K. McEwan AGGV 50.7
I Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
Three Beauties Wading in Water woodcut chuban
Brian S. McElney Collection
II Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Kiyo Waterfall in Sakanoshita Series: Waterfalls of Various Provinces woodcut oban
Fred and Isabel Pollard Collection AGGV 63.83
III Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
No. 98, Fireworks at Ryogoku
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
woodcut oban
Gift of Mr. Theodore Lande
AGGV 84.54.14
IV Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Kambe Nobukata
Series: Heroes of the Taiheiki woodcut oban
Given in Memory of Suga Mutsu by her husband, Ian Mutsu AGGV 86.27.4
V Shibata Zeshin (1807-91)
Crows in Flight 1887 woodcut 21.5x24.5 cm Stuart Jackson Gallery, Toronto
VI Ito Shinsui (1896-1972)
Washing the Hair 1953 woodcut 52.2 x 37.7 cm
Collection of Steven F. Savittand Mary Lynn Baum
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