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  • Japanese art: the formats of 2-dimensional works
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Related highlight objects

  • Hosokawa Honzō Yorinao, a woodblock print from Karakuri zui ('Illustrated Compendium of Clever Machines'
  • Okumura Masanobu (after), a wooden printing block for two illustrations from the album Yūkun Sennin ('Courtesans
  • Saitō Shūho, Kishi empu ('Mr. Aoi's Chronicle of Charm'), a colour woodblock printed book
  • Okumura Masanobu, Courtesans as Three Sake Drinkers, a woodblock print
  • Kitao Masayoshi, Partridges, a colour woodblock print
  • Kitao Masanobu, The courtesans Hinazuru and Chōzan a coloured woodblock print
  • Kitagawa Utamaro, Lovers in an upstairs room, from Uta makura ('Poem of the Pillow'), a colour woodblock
  • Kitagawa Utamaro, Ohisa of the Takashima tea-shop, a colour woodblock print
  • Katsushika Hokusai, Dragon ascending Mount Fuji from 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji' (Fugaku hyakkei),

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