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Title: Door Picture: Trader and Urban Worker
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: In this image a worker and peasant face one another, each with his own horse carrying the fruits of his labor. The text reads "Mutual aid between the cities and the countryside."
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1948
Accession Number: 2006/2.48.1-2
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
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Secondary Object Type: woodblock

Title: Tibetan monk-scholar: print from inside conch trumpet
Artist: Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
Physical Description: A woodblock print on paper, with large tears at the upper right hand and lower left hand corners, much abraded. Formerly placed insite the conch trumpet 1982/2.42 as a talisman.
Century: late 18th-early 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1982/2.42B
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
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Secondary Object Type: woodblock

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Title: The Rooster Protects the House from Suzhou
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Polychrome woodblock print of a rooster holding a praying mantis in its mouth with four characters at top center framed by a floral scrolling border
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.47
Medium and Support: color woodblock print mounted on stiff board with silk borders
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Secondary Object Type: woodblock

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Title: Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: Two male figures wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side on thrones. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter. The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is basin filled with coins and rarities such as jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a smaller male figure holds a horse on a tray while his counter part on the left holds a brush and a scroll. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2006/2.49
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
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Secondary Object Type: woodblock

Title: Stove God and Wife with Calendar
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: This print is typical, depicting the Stove God and his wife with halos and elegant clothing. Before them is a table with common worship instruments, including candles, an incense burner, and flowers. Standing in the bottom corners are two officials, and between them a container of jewels. The jewels are flanked by a dog and rooster; animals thought to be symbols of domesticity with auspicious connotations. Above the scene a calendar for the year 1949 is framed by an auspicious dragon motif.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1948
Accession Number: 1989/2.116
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
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Secondary Object Type: woodblock

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Title: Hôeidô Tôkaidô Series: Ishibe, Megawa Village
Artist: Andô Hiroshige
Physical Description: The snow scene of a village. Several groups of tavellers are walking toward a house located on the side of the road. Two figures carrying heavy stuff are walking away along the path.
Artist Life Dates: 1797-1858
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1833-1834
Accession Number: 1948/1.131
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
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Secondary Object Type: Color Woodblock

Title: Hôeidô Tôkaidô Series: Goyû: Women Soliciting Travelers
Artist: Andô Hiroshige
Physical Description: In the main street of Goyu village at nightfall, female touts aggressively solicit travelers by dragging them into the tea-house on the right, where one is already resting. The large circle on the wall bears the sign of the publisher of the series, Take-no-Uchi, which was omitted in later issues. On the sign-boards inside are given the names of the engraver, Firobei; the printer, Heibei; and the artist, Ichiryusai.
Artist Life Dates: 1797-1858
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1833-1834
Accession Number: 1960/2.141
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper, ôban yoko-e size
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Secondary Object Type: color woodblock

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