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Mashiko Ware Teacup (style of Hamada Shôji); Old Mashiko Ware; style of Hamada Shôji

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Title: Mashiko Ware Teacup (style of Hamada Shôji)
Artist: Old Mashiko Ware
Physical Description: Stoneware tea bowl with short foot that flares out into the base of the tea bowl, and bends gently back inwards, until flaring slightly at the lip of the piece. Underglaze design of a circle and stylized design or plant decorates the side of the bowl.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1950-1960
Accession Number: 2003/2.18
Medium and Support: stoneware with underglaze iron painting and translucent glaze
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Small Plate; Old Mashiko Ware

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Title: Small Plate
Artist: Old Mashiko Ware
Physical Description: Small round ceramic plate. Brown and green, mostly a matte finish.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century - mid 20th century
Accession Number: 2013/1.299
Medium and Support: brown stoneware
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Small Globular Vase with Raised Mouth; Old Mashiko Ware

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Title: Small Globular Vase with Raised Mouth
Artist: Old Mashiko Ware
Physical Description: A short, globular vase with a very short neck and wide mouth. The ceramic is colored with alternatng stripes of white speckles, browns of various shades and orange. Brown and tan matte glaze.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: late 1960s - early 1970s
Accession Number: 2013/1.300
Medium and Support: dark stoneware
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Small Plate; Old Mashiko Ware

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Title: Small Plate
Artist: Old Mashiko Ware
Physical Description: Small round plate of a creamy matte white color and irregular pattern of oribe green on one side and black on half of the edge of the plate, gritty clay finish.
Object Creation Date: late 19th century - mid 20th century
Accession Number: 2013/1.321
Medium and Support: white stoneware with turned foot ring
Artist Nationality: Japanese

A Courtesan Seated on a Veranda Playing a Shamisen; Ômori Yoshikiyo

Title: A Courtesan Seated on a Veranda Playing a Shamisen
Artist: Ômori Yoshikiyo
Artist Life Dates: (active 1701 - 1716)
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1701-1716
Accession Number: 1960/1.140
Medium and Support: hand-colored woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Impression of a Violinist (Portrait of Suwa Nejiko) [Aru baiorinisuto no inshô]; Onchi Kôshirô

Title: Impression of a Violinist (Portrait of Suwa Nejiko) [Aru baiorinisuto no inshô]
Artist: Onchi Kôshirô
Artist Life Dates: 1891 - 1955
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1946
Accession Number: 1997/2.14
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

The Plume; Onchi Kôshirô

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Title: The Plume
Artist: Onchi Kôshirô
Artist Life Dates: 1891 - 1955
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1945
Accession Number: 1997/2.15
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Family of the Mountain; Onchi Kôshirô

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Title: Family of the Mountain
Artist: Onchi Kôshirô
Artist Life Dates: 1891-1955
Century: 20th century
Accession Number: 2008/2.193
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Small Teapot; Onda Kilns, Kyushu, Japan

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Title: Small Teapot
Artist: Onda Kilns, Kyushu, Japan
Physical Description: A wide diamond-angled teapot and lid with straw (or wood) wrapped handle. The pot is a blue-green color with copper-colored flecks throughout. Green glaze.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2013/1.323A&B
Medium and Support: reduction fired stoneware
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Storage Jar with Lid; Ôta Kumao

Title: Storage Jar with Lid
Artist: Ôta Kumao
Physical Description: Large jar with lid and mottled brown and black glaze. An incised wavy line circles the upper portion of the body.
Artist Life Dates: 20th century
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: mid 20th century
Accession Number: 1963/2.75
Medium and Support: stoneware with mottled brown glaze
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Eggplant and Calligraphy; Ôtagaki Rengetsu

Title: Eggplant and Calligraphy
Artist: Ôtagaki Rengetsu
Artist Life Dates: (Tajima Province, 1791 - 1875)
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1964/1.98
Medium and Support: fan painting matted for framing, ink on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

The Happy Life of Fishermen; Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)

Title: The Happy Life of Fishermen
Artist: Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)
Physical Description: A group of fishermen and families sit in reeds, resting, playing, drinking, eating, and chatting. Birds fly in the backgrounf, and the reeds bend under the wind. At top center is calligraphic text.
Artist Life Dates: (active Suzhou, ca. 1573 - ca. 1620)
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1610
Accession Number: 1985/2.29
Medium and Support: fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on gold paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

"The Sound of Rustling Leaves" (Chinese poem, calligraphy); Rai San'yô

Title: "The Sound of Rustling Leaves" (Chinese poem, calligraphy)
Artist: Rai San'yô
Physical Description: This is a hanging scroll. It is mounted on olive green fabric and includes a poem in Chinese calligraphic text about nature. Has three red seals: two in the lower left side, one in the upper right corner.
Artist Life Dates: 1780-1832
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1811-1832
Accession Number: 2002/1.164
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Raku Ware Black Tea Bowl Seal of Raku Ryônyû (1756–1834); Raku Ryônyû

Title: Raku Ware Black Tea Bowl Seal of Raku Ryônyû (1756–1834)
Artist: Raku Ryônyû
Artist Life Dates: 1756 - 1834
Century: Early 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1811-1834
Accession Number: 2000/1.30
Medium and Support: earthenware with black glaze
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Red Raku ware teabowl with imprinted leaf designs; Raku Tan'nyû

Title: Red Raku ware teabowl with imprinted leaf designs
Artist: Raku Tan'nyû
Physical Description: This rustic, earth tone ceramic tea bowl has a rough, natural feeling texture. Impressed into the outer sides of the tea bowl are the imprints of pine needles.
Artist Life Dates: 1795 - 1854
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1820 - circa 1840
Accession Number: 1954/1.537
Medium and Support: earthenware with red and gray glaze
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Poetry Competition: The Pink Shell (Kasen awase: nadeshikogai); Ryûryûkyo Shinsai

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Title: Poetry Competition: The Pink Shell (Kasen awase: nadeshikogai)
Artist: Ryûryûkyo Shinsai
Artist Life Dates: 1764?-1820
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1809
Accession Number: 2002/1.219
Medium and Support: full color woodblock print with metallic pigments on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Tsuba (Sword guard); Sadanobu

Title: Tsuba (Sword guard)
Artist: Sadanobu
Physical Description: It is a round, openwork tsuba, in the design of three interconnected bamboo leaves. It has the signature: Kishû jû, Sadanobu.
Artist Life Dates: 1809-1879
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1966/1.103
Medium and Support: iron
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Iwai Shijaku [I] as Shiorine (?) (female dressed as an itinerant monk, with sword raised); Sadanobu

Title: Iwai Shijaku [I] as Shiorine (?) (female dressed as an itinerant monk, with sword raised)
Artist: Sadanobu
Artist Life Dates: 1809-1879
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1831-1835
Accession Number: 2003/1.600
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Nostalgia (Boston); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Nostalgia (Boston)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Physical Description: The scene shows a group of buildings with white colored rooftops. Two buildings rise up in the foreground on the right and left. The right building has a red side with vertical lines hashed into it. The left building has two white triangles on its roof. In the middle ground is a smaller building with a green-domed tower rising up the middle of the composition. A small red figure stands on the white ground to the right of this tower. The background shows the large white rooftop of another building, with small dark rooflines of buildings visible behind it.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1956
Accession Number: 1958/2.36
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Gasshôzukuri Farmhouses in Snow; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Gasshôzukuri Farmhouses in Snow
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Physical Description: A native of Sakamoto in Fukushima Prefecture, the artist here depicts his far northern hometown with the snow-covered imagery to present a view of traditional Japan in a innovative and modern way.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1958
Accession Number: 1994/2.4
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Untitled [Winter in Aizu (F)]; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Untitled [Winter in Aizu (F)]
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1938
Accession Number: 1959/2.1
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Untitled [Winter in Aizu (B)]; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Untitled [Winter in Aizu (B)]
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1953
Accession Number: 1959/2.11
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Ancient City Nara (A); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Ancient City Nara (A)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1954
Accession Number: 1959/2.12
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Ancient City Nara (B); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Ancient City Nara (B)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1954
Accession Number: 1959/2.13
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Giôji Kyoto; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Giôji Kyoto
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1955
Accession Number: 1959/2.22
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Katsura Kyoto (C); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Katsura Kyoto (C)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1955
Accession Number: 1959/2.23
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Heart's Rest (New Mexico); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Heart's Rest (New Mexico)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1956
Accession Number: 1959/2.27
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Daitokuji, Kyoto; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Daitokuji, Kyoto
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1957
Accession Number: 1959/2.29
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Head of a bodhisattva; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Head of a bodhisattva
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1955
Accession Number: 1959/2.4
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Buddha Asyura (Ashura, Kôfukuji, Nara); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Buddha Asyura (Ashura, Kôfukuji, Nara)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1959
Accession Number: 1986/2.65
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Nara (D); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Nara (D)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Physical Description: This scene has two trees and some logs jutting vertically out of the ground in the foreground, with some buildings and a figure walking in the background. The tree on the left in the foreground has a split trunk, and we can see some roots. The four logs are spaced fairly evenly in the center of the foreground, and the second tree is on the right in the foreground and leans to the right. Some leaves can be seen on the trees at the top of the scene. The ground in the background is white, and the figure walks in front of the buildings in the center right of the scene. The main and tallest roofline of the buildings is in the center of the background.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1963
Accession Number: 1986/2.67
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese

Biyakugoji, Nara; Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Biyakugoji, Nara
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Physical Description: The composition has a wide path in the middle heading into the background, with buildings on eiher side and three telephone poles in the middle. The top of a tree can be seen over the buildings in the top left of the scene. The front center portion of the pathway has some darker horizontal marks, and a dark figure is on the pathway in the center right of the composition.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1963
Accession Number: 1986/2.68
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
Artist Nationality: Japanese