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Uchiwa picture: a type of nishiki-e that was created assuming that it would be cut out and used as a fan. NDL

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Fans Painting By Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) Tokyo National Museum

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"Kariginu" (Noh costume), Paulownias and square-shaped crests on dark blue ground Edo period, 18th century Tokyo National Museum

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A cylindrical silver tea caddy and cover. The raised design with many fish among foaming waves. Signed Masayoshi.

Japan, Meiji period. 9.5 cms x 7.5 cms

Brandt Asian Art

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Young Woman with an Otsue Demon Dressed as an Itinerant Priest, ca. 1804

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By Kitagawa Utamaro, about late 18th century.

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Kitagawa Utamaro, No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", 1793

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Kitagawa Utamaro, "Love for a Farmer's Wife", 1795-1796

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Hinazuru of the Keizetsuro, from the series "Comparing the Charms of Beauties (Bijin kiryo kurabe) (Keizetsuro Hinazuru)", 1789

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Kitagawa Utamaro's 'EAGLE ON PLUM TREE', about late 18th c.

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman Reading a Letter, from the series Ten Classes of Women's Physiognomy (Fujo ninso juppon) (Fumi yomu onna), 1787

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Shaving a Boy's Head, c. 1801

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Okita of the Naniwaya Teahouse, ca. 1793

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Kitagawa Utamaro, No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", 1793

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Okita the tea house girl, by Kitagawa Utamaro, late 18th c

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Kitagawa Utamaro, A Wife of the Lower Rank (Gebon no nyobo), from the series "A Guide to Women's Contemporary Styles (Tosei onna fuzoku tsu)", 1796

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Jihei of Kamiya Eloping with the Geisha Koharu of Kinokuniya, from the series “True Feelings Compared: The Founts of Love” (Jitsu kurabe iro no Minakami), ca. 1798–99