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ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige II (Artist) / 二代目 歌川 広重 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1862
DescriptionThis triptych shows the first Kamakura shogun, Minamoto no Yoritomo, paying an official visit to the emperor at his residence in Kyōtō.
ContributorsUtagawa Hiroshige (Artist) / 歌川 広重 (Artist) / Ezakiya Kichibei (Publisher) / 江崎屋吉兵衛 (Publisher)
Created1841 to 1842
DescriptionThis print is number 46 of the Gyōsho edition of Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road. It depicts the post house at Shōno (in present-day Mie prefecture), where travelers are changing horses mid-journey along the Tōkaidō Road.
ContributorsTakahashi Shōtei (Artist) / 高橋松亭 (Artist) / Watanabe Shōzaburō (Publisher) / 渡辺 庄三郎 (Publisher)
Created1932
DescriptionWoodblock print depicting a wagon puller during a nighttime rain shower in the Asagaya district of Tokyo.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
Description
Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1874
DescriptionThis newspaper nishiki-e depicts the prelude to the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident. Mito clan conspirators Saitō Kenmotsu and Ōzeki Washichirō lie in wait for the target of their assassination plot: the chief minister to the Tokugawa government, Ii Naosuke.