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Japanese Prints Collectioncirca 1765-1964 (bulk 1780-1860)MS.2013.043http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3820

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Japanese Prints Collection MS.2013.043

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Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3

Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5

Historical note - Ukiyo-e prints ..................................................................................................................... 6

Biographical note - Morrissey family ........................................................................................................... 7

Biographical note - Laforet family ................................................................................................................ 8

Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 8

Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 9

Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 10

I: Morrissey collection .............................................................................................................................. 10

II: Laforet collection ................................................................................................................................. 22


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Summary Information

Creator - art: Suzuki, Harunobu

Creator - art: Torii, Kiyonaga

Creator - art: Isoda, Kory#sai

Creator - art: Katsukawa, Shunk#

Creator - art: Takahashi, Sh#tei

Creator - art: Tomikawa Fusanobu

Creator - art: Ishiwata, K#itsu

Creator - art: And#, Hiroshige

Creator - art: Katsushika, Hokusai

Creator - art: Saito, Kiyoshi

Creator - art: Kitagawa, Utamaro

Creator - art: Kubo Shumman

Creator - art: Utagawa, Toyokuni

Creator - art: Utagawa, Kuniyoshi

Creator - art: Ikeda, Eisen

Creator - art: Hosoda, Eishi

Creator - art: Kikukawa, Eizan

Title: Japanese prints collection

Collection Identifier: MS.2013.043

Date [inclusive]: circa 1765-1964 (bulk 1780-1860)

Date [bulk]: 1780-1860

Physical Description 26.25 Linear Feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 3 framed items)

Language of theMaterial:

Japanese

Abstract: This collection consists primarily of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. It alsoincludes a few examples of the mingei (folk art) and sosaku hanga("creative prints") movements of the early 20th century. The bulk ofthe ukiyo-e prints are by Ando Hiroshige; other notable artists includeKatsushika Hokusai, Katsukawa Shunko, Kitagawa Utamaro, andIsoda Koryusai.


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Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Japanese Prints Collection, MS.2013.043,John J. Burns Library, Boston College.


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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Processed by Erin Furlong in April 2014. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Restrictions on use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S.Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, includingbut not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Anymaterials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Theoriginal artists may retain copyright to the materials.

Provenance

Gifts (1949-1971) from Arthur M. Morrissey in honor of James W. Morrissey, and gifts (1994-1995)from Eugene and Mitsuko LaForet in honor of Dr. Shiro Tashahiro.


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Historical note - Ukiyo-e prints

The term ukiyo was originally used in Buddhist practices to refer to "the condition of impermanencecreated by daily life and its desires." At the start of the Tokugawa era (1603-1868), the term beganto shift in meaning and use to convey the idea of a "floating world" that was applied to the emergingculture of pleasure, parties, and a preoccupation with the present moment. Ukiyo-e ("pictures of thefloating world") rose to prominence in the seventeenth century as increases in agricultural productiondrove economic development, creating a literate, wealthy, urban merchant class interested in art thatrepresented their own lifestyles. Ukiyo-e included paintings, screens, and illustrated books, but thefocus of the movement was on woodblock prints. Popular ukiyo-e subjects were famous kabuki actors,courtesans, and sumo wrestlers. Other frequently used themes were famous teahouses, city quarters,historical heroes, ghosts, erotic books, and most aspects of ordinary life, with landscape prints beginningto appear in the 1830s.

The ukiyo-e woodblock prints were traditionally carved on cherry-wood blocks using a negative copyof an original sketch by an artist. Prints were usually created in orders of 400 to cover initial expensesand then reprinted if the image proved successful. A traditional ukiyo-e print would be the product ofthe work of four to five different people, with the artist having no hand in the physical production of theprint. The design would be created by the artist with consultation from the publisher, and would then begiven to skilled craftsmen who carved the design and sent the woodblock to another group of specializedworkers who would print the actual image. Ukiyo-e prints were initially created entirely in black ink,while hand applied colors began to be used in 1688 with limited options of tan-e ("orange-red pigmentpictures") or beni-e ("rose colored pictures") used until the development of full color woodblock printingin 1765.

While the strong push for modernization during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras leftthe traditional practice of ukiyo-e in decline, the prints continued to be produced with the traditionalthemes of kabuki actors and beautiful women, as well as more Western and modernized images. Scenesfocusing on Western clothing and inventions and battle scenes depicting the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars became popular in the middle of the Meiji period. In the 1910s, Watanabe Shozaburosought to revitalize the traditional ukiyo-e focus on kabuki actors and native landscapes, forming theshin-hanga ("new print") movement, which emphasized the original collaborative process of differentcraftsmen and artists creating each part of the print. This contrasted with the competing concurrent artmovement of sosaku-hanga ("creative prints"), which focused on the creation of woodblock prints madeentirely by one artist, for the sake of art.

Sources

Kobayashi, Tadashi. Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints. Tokyo: KodanshaInternational, 1992.

Calza, Gian Carlo. Ukiyo-e. London: Phaidon, 2005.


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Berglund, Lars. "The Art of Ukiyo-e – A Short Historical Survey." In Impressions: Japanese Prints andPaintings In the Utagawa Tradition, edited by The Utagawa Society of Japan. Nagano: Soei Publishing,1994.

Jenkins, Donald. "A Mirror on the Floating World." In Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japanin Prints and Paintings, 1680 – 1860, edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, 15-32. Singapore: AsiaSociety and Japanese Art Society of America, in association with the University of Washington Press,2008.

Smith, Lawrence. "Japanese Prints 1868-2008." In Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts,1868 – 2000, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, 361-407. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012.

Biographical note - Morrissey family

James W. Morrissey (1897-1949) graduated from Boston College (1920), as did all four of his brothers:Francis Morrissey (1921); Dr. Leonard Morrissey (1923); William Morrissey (1925); and Dr. Arthur M.Morrissey (1929). He then worked for the McDonald Steel Company in South Boston before servingin in Venezuela during World War II, and postwar became the president of Morrissey Brothers TractorCompany in Watertown, Massachusetts. Long interested in Japanese culture, James W. Morrisseycollected woodblock prints as well as books related to Japanese art. This collection passed to his brotherArthur at his death.

Dr. Arthur M. Morrissey (1906-2004) was an ophthalmologist and a veteran of World War II. Morrisseydonated his brother's collection of Japanese prints to Boston College in December 1949 as a memorialto his brother, and continued to add to the Library's collection for many years. Dr. Morrissey also laterdonated his own collection of Haitian paintings from his work as a volunteer with Catholic Charities inthe late 1960s.

Sources

Connolly, Terence, S.J., letter to Arthur Morrissey, December 20, 1949, Archives and Library Records,John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Delaney, Patricia. "Haiti Before the Quake: Exhibit at Burns Library." February 9, 2010. http://www.bc.edu/offices/pubaf/archive/news/haitian_paintings_exhibit2010_0209.html

"Dr. Arthur M. Morrissey," The Boston Globe, October 2004.

"James W. Morrissey," Medford Mercury, July 14, 1949.

Morrissey, Arthur M., letter to Terence Connolly, S.J., September 25, 1949, Archives and LibraryRecords, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Morrissey, Arthur M., letter to Terence Connolly S.J., March 26, 1953, Archives and Library Records,John J. Burns Library, Boston College.


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U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current. Ancestry.com. Accessed January 31, 2014.

Biographical note - Laforet family

The Laforet collection was donated to the John J. Burns Library by Dr. Eugene Laforet and his wife,Mitsuko Tashiro Laforet, in honor of her father, Dr. Shiro Tashiro. Dr. Shiro Tashiro (1883-1963) wasborn in Kagoshima prefecture and immigrated to the United States in 1901. He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Chicago in 1912 and then taught there in the department of physiological chemistry until 1918,when he accepted a position at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine as the associate professorof biochemistry. Tashiro was well known for his publication A Chemical Sign of Life, which studied theability to measure carbon dioxide levels in organisms as a sign of life. Tashiro married Shizuka Kawasakiin 1915 and had two sons, Kazuo and Kiyoshi, and one daughter, Mitsuko. Dr. Mitsuko Tashiro Laforet(1920-2006) received her bachelor's degree from Goucher College (1942), her master's in physiologyfrom Vassar College, and her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. After marrying Dr.Eugene Laforet, she moved to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where she worked as a hematologist at thePeter Bent Brigham Hospital and Children's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Eugene Laforet (1924-2002) wasa graduate of Boston College (1944) and Tufts Medical School (1947). Laforet was a retired captainin the United States Navy Medical Corps and a Korean War Veteran. He practiced medicine in Bostonuntil his retirement in 1985 and taught a medical ethics course at Boston College with T. P. O'Malley,S.J. Sources Day, Stacey. "Tashiro, Shiro." In Encyclopedia.com. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830904255.html Eugene G. Laforet Biomedical Ethics Collection, John J. Burns Library, BostonCollege. "Eugene Laforet." Boston Globe, June 2002. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-g-laforet&pid=362125 Laforet, Eugene. "Commitment to Life." The Heights,September 15, 1975. http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=bcheights19750915.2.31 "MitsukoLaforet." Boston Globe. December 2006. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=mitsuko-laforet&pid=20280831 "Mitsuko Tashiro Joins Physiologists." Vassar Miscellany News,October 3, 1942. http://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=miscellany19421003-01.2.34O'Neill, Robert K., letter to Eugene G. Laforet, February 11, 1994, Archives and Library Records, John J.Burns Library, Boston College. Tashiro, Shiro. A Chemical Sign of Life. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1917. U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current. Ancestry.com. Accessed January 31, 2014.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains Japanese artwork dating from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.While the majority of this collection consists of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, there are also a number ofexamples of the mingei (folk art) movement and the sosaku hanga ("creative prints") movement of theearly 20th century, including pieces by Sadao Watanabe, Kiyoshi Saito, and Unichi Hiratsuka.

The bulk of the ukiyo-e prints are by Ando Hiroshige; other notable artists include KatsushikaHokusai, Katsukawa Shunko, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Isoda Koryusai. The collection contains 46prints from Hiroshige's famous series "The Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido Road," as well asseveral images from other series including "The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road" and


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"Chushingura" (sometimes translated as "The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers," "The Revenge of theLoyal Retainers," or "The Tale of the 47 Ronin"). Overall the collection contains excellent examplesof traditional ukiyo-e styles and themes, including bijin-ga ("beautiful women"), azuri-e ("blue print"),kabuki actors, folk tales, and landscape scenes.

Several of the items in this collection are not original woodblock prints, but reproductions from the seriesNihon Mokuhangasui, published in the 1920s by Nihon Shosui-sha. The original sleeves are stored withthese reproductions in Box 7. The collection also includes one painting.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series reflecting original provenance: I. Morrissey collection; II.Laforet collection. Within each series, materials are arranged alphabetically by artist's name.

In the Laforet collection, the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road are arranged in the order originally issued.


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Collection Inventory

Series I: Morrissey collection, circa 1766 - 1964

. Act Eleven: Part 1 from the series Ch#shingura, woodblock print,ink and color on paper, circa 1835-1839


Link to digital version: http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2013_043_ref15

box 1 folder 3

. Act Eleven: Part 6 from the series Ch#shingura, woodblock print,ink and color on paper, circa 1835-1839



box 1 folder 4

. Act Nine from the series Ch#shingura, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1835-1839



box 1 folder 2

. Act One from the series Ch#shingura, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1835-1839



box 1 folder 1

. Aoi Slope, Outside Toranomon Gate from the series OneHundred Famous Views of Edo, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, 1857



box 2 folder 14

. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama Temple from the series Eight Viewsof Ômi, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1834-1835



box 1 folder 6

. Bamboo Yards, Kyôbashi Bridge from the series One HundredFamous Views of Edo, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,1857


box 3 folder 7

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. Echizen Province: Tsuruga, Kehi Pine Grove from the seriesFamous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, woodblock print, inkand color on paper, 1853



box 3 folder 13

. Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1857


box 8 folder 10

. Fireworks at Ryôgoku from the series One Hundred FamousViews of Edo, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1858



box 2 folder 12

. Fuchû: The Abe River from the series Fifty-three Stations ofthe Tôkaidô Road, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1833-1834



box 5 folder 9

. Fukagawa Lumberyards from the series One Hundred FamousViews of Edo, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1856



box 2 folder 13

. Gion Shrine in the Snow from the series Famous Views ofKyoto, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1834



box 1 folder 10

. Kazusa Province: Yasashi Bay from the series Famous Places inthe Sixty-odd Provinces, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,circa 1853



box 1 folder 8

. Kinuta Jewel River in Settsu Province from the series Six JewelRivers, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1835


box 5 folder 1
















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. Komachi Praying for Rain from the series Nana Komachi, fanprint, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 1 folder 11

. Misty Moonlight on the Sea at Tsukuda Island from the seriesFamous Places in the Eastern Capital, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1837-1838



box 5 folder 8

. Mitsuke: Tenryû River View from the series Fifty-three Stationsof the Tôkaidô, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1833-1834



box 2 folder 16

. Mount Kaso in Kazusa Province from the series WrestlingMatches between Mountains and Seas, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1858



box 4 folder 3

. Night Rain at Karasaki from the series Eight Views of Ômi,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1834-1835



box 1 folder 5

. Night View of Matsuchiyama and the San'ya Canal from theseries One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, woodblock print, inkand color on paper, 1857



box 3 folder 6

. No. 17, Yui, from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-threeStations, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1855


box 2 folder 17
















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. No. 39, Agematsu, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of theKisokaido Road, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1835-1838



box 3 folder 1

. Ochanomizu from the series Famous Places in Edo, woodblockprint, ink and color on paper, 1853



box 1 folder 9

. Ômi Province: Lake Biwa, Ishiyama Temple from the seriesFamous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, woodblock print, inkand color on paper, circa 1853



box 1 folder 7

. Parody of the Akashi Chapter: Evening Moon at Takanawa,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1843-1847



box 3 folder 5

. Rain at Onmayagashi from the series Famous Places in Edo, fanprint, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 1 folder 12

. Shôno: Driving Rain from the series Fifty-three Stations of theTôkaidô Road, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1833-1834



box 5 folder 11

. Sudden Shower over Ôhashi Bridge and Atake from the seriesOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1857


box 3 folder 18
















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. Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River from the seriesOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1856



box 3 folder 16

. Tomigaoka Hachiman Shrine at Fukagawa from the seriesFamous Places in Edo, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,circa 1832-1834



box 5 folder 10

. Totsuka: Motomachi Fork from the series Fifty-three Stations ofthe Tôkaidô Road, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1833-1834



box 2 folder 15

. Tsushima Province: A Fine Evening on the Coast from the seriesFamous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, woodblock print, inkand color on paper, 1856



box 2 folder 18

. Viewing Cherry Blossoms from the Kiyomizu Hall at TôeizanTemple in Ueno from the series Famous Views of the EasternCapital, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1839



box 5 folder 7

. View of the Naruto Rapids, Province of Awa, woodblock print,ink and color on paper, 1857


box 8 folder 11

. Mask of Noh-play, Maihime, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, 1948

Creator - art: Arashino, Ko#taro#


box 8 folder 6

. Niwaka Festival in Yoshiwara, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, undated

Creator - art: Eisho#sai, Cho#ki

box 6 folder 2
















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. Fete Day Dance, reproduction, print, ink and color on paper,circa 1920s

Creator - art: Hanabusa, Itcho#

box 7 folder 9

. Gate of Hikone Castle, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,1957

Creator - art: Hashimoto, Okiie

box 8 folder 9

. Shrine Garden, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1953

Creator - art: Hiratsuka, Un'ichi


box 7 folder 6

. Temple Gate, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1963

Creator - art: Hiratsuka, Un'ichi

box 8 folder 7

. Segawa of the Matsubaya, Kamuro Sasano and Takeno,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1788

Creator - art: Hosoda, Eishi


box 2 folder 5

. No. 15, Itahana, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of theKisokaido Road, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1835-1838

Creator - art: Ikeda, Eisen


box 3 folder 2

. Chanting Farmers Praying for Rain from a series of the FourSocial Classes, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1880

Creator - art: Ishikawa, Toyomasa


box 8 folder 4

. Twilight in Imamiya Street, Choshi, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1932

Creator - art: Ishiwata, K#itsu


box 3 folder 15

. Evening Bell of the Clock from the series Fashionable EightViews of the Parlor, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,circa 1766


box 2 folder 3














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. Evening Snow at Yamashita, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1770



box 2 folder 4

. Falcon on a Perch, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1765-1788


box 8 folder 1

. Grasses of Shinda at the First Frost, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, undated



box 5 folder 2

. Toyoharu of the Chôjiya, Kamuro Tasoya and Takino from theseries Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as YoungLeaves, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1778-1780



box 8 folder 3

. Sangatsudo Temple, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,1962

Creator - art: Kasamatsu, Shiro


box 4 folder 4

. Kataoka Nizaemon, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated

Creator - art: Katsukawa, Shunk#


box 3 folder 9

. Women and Actor at Takanawa, woodblock print, ink and coloron paper, undated

Creator - art: Katsukawa, Shunsen


box 5 folder 4

. Actor in Tragic Role, reproduction, print, ink and color on paper,undated

Creator - art: Katsukawa, Shunsho#

box 7 folder 8

. Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province from the series Thirty-six Viewsof Mount Fuji, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1830-1831

box 1 folder 14
















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. Enoshima in Sagami Province from the series Thirty-six Viewsof Mount Fuji, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1830-1831



box 1 folder 15

. Sakai Cho (Theater Street), woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, 1800



box 4 folder 1

. Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats from theseries Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1830-1831



box 1 folder 16

. Snowy Morning at Koishikawa from the series Thirty-six Viewsof Mount Fuji, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1830-1831



box 1 folder 13

. A Wayside Meal, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated



box 4 folder 2

. Irrigation, As Seen in Sado from the series Souvenirs of TravelII, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1921

Creator - art: Kawase, Hasui


box 7 folder 4

. Part of the Byôdô-in Temple at Uji from the series Souvenirs ofTravel II, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1921

Creator - art: Kawase, Hasui


box 7 folder 3

. Cherry Blossom Viewing, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, 1809-1813

box 2 folder 10


















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. Three Fashionable Beauties Cooling Off in the Evening,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1814-1817



box 2 folder 9

. Courtesans of the O#giya, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, undated

Creator - art: Kitagawa, Tsukimaro


box 6 folder 1

. Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya with Attendants Shirabe andTeriha, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1793



box 1 folder 17

. Parody of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Treasure Boat,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 5 folder 5

. Portrait Head of an Unknown Courtesan from the series of EightTrigrams, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1803



box 3 folder 10

Kozan, Matsumoto, 1784-1866, and O#oka, Unpo#, 1765-1848.Goose and Swallows, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated


box 2 folder 7

. Votive Picture Hall at Muko#jima, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1785-1789



box 3 folder 3

. Votive Picture Hall at Muko#jima, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, undated


box 3 folder 4


















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. Geese in Snow Falling Sky, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1925-1930

Creator - art: Ohara, Koson


box 5 folder 12

. Moving, reproduction, print, ink and color on paper, undated

Creator - art: Okumura, Masanobu

box 7 folder 7

. Sakurada-Mon, Tokyo, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,1964


box 8 folder 8

. Winter in Aizu (3), woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated



box 7 folder 5

. A Hill in Early Spring, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,1948

Creator - art: Sasajima, Kihei

box 8 folder 10

. Faith from the series The Five Virtues, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, 1767



box 3 folder 17

. Poem by Shiseki from the series Fashionable Versions of Ink inFive Colors, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1768



box 2 folder 2

. Mount Fuji from Mizukubo, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1936

Creator - art: Takahashi, Sh#tei


box 3 folder 14

. Bamboo, Apricot and a Fisherman, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1930

Creator - art: Tekiho, Imoto

box 7 folder 2














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. Bamboo Grove, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1930

Creator - art: Tekiho, Imoto


box 7 folder 1

. Under the Willow Tree, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated



box 2 folder 6

. Under the Willow Tree, photographic reproduction, undated


box 2 folder 19

. Arrival at the Baths in Yumoto from the series Seven HotSprings in Hakone, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1780



box 2 folder 1

. Two Women and a Maid, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1783



box 1 folder 18

. Mat Maker, reproduction, print, ink and color on paper, circa1920s

Creator - art: Tosa, Mitsuoki

box 7 folder 11

. Mount Kusuri on the Road to Zenkô-ji in Shinano Province fromthe series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1859

Creator - art: Utagawa, Hiroshige


box 8 folder 2

. View of Asakusa, reproduction, print, ink and color on paper,circa 1920s

Creator - art: Utagawa, Kuninao

box 7 folder 10

. Monkey: Sun Wugong from the series Heroes Representing theTwelve Animals of the Zodiac, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1840


box 5 folder 3














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. Nichiren Praying for Rain at Ryôzengasaki in Kamakura in 1271from the series Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest, woodblockprint, ink and color on paper, circa 1830-1835



box 3 folder 8

. Actor Bando# Mitsugoro# as Samurai Kumagai Jiro# on hisHorse, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 6 folder 3

. Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, undated



box 6 folder 4

. Courtesan and Attendants on a Veranda Overlooking a Garden,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1790-1800



box 2 folder 8

. Ichikawa Yaozo# as Ume no Yoshibei and Segawa Kikunojo# ashis wife Koume, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 3 folder 11

. Somamura Gennosuke as Ume no Yoshibei and Segawa Roko#as his wife Koume, woodblock print, ink and color on paper,undated



box 6 folder 5

. Sukeroku: Flower of Edo, in a scene from a kabuki theaterproduction, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, undated



box 3 folder 12

. Mount Atago in Shiba from the series One Hundred BeautifulWomen at Famous Places in Edo, woodblock print, ink and coloron paper, 1857

box 5 folder 6


















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. Biblical Theme: Christmas, woodblock print, paint on momigamipaper, 1964

Creator - art: Watanabe, Sadao

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. Under the Wave off Kanagawa from the series Thirty-six Viewsof Mount Fuji, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1831-1833

Creator: Unidentified artist


box 2 folder 11

. Man with Staff, painting, ink on paper, undated


box 4 folder 5

. Nightingale on Bamboo Branch, screenprint and painting on silk,undated


box 8 folder 5

. Two women and a child, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, undated


frame 3

Series II: Laforet collection

53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, circa 1837-1842

General

This collection of the prints from the series "53 Stations of the Tokaido Road" by Ando Hiroshige is the KyokaEdition. This edition was produced circa the late 1830s to early 1840s and is characterized by a comic poemwritten on each of the prints.

. Nihonbashi, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


box 9 folder 1

. Shinagawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Kawasaki, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Kanagawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842

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. Hodogaya, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Fujisawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Oiso, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Odawara, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Hakone, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Mishima,woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Numazu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Hara, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Yoshiwara, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Kanbara, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Yui, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Okitsu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Ejiri, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Fuchu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Okabe, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Fujieda, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Shimada, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Kanaya, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Nissaka, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Kakegawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Mitsuke, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Hamamatsu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842

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. Maisaka, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Shirasuka, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Futagawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Yoshida, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Goyu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Akasaka, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Fujikawa, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Okazaki, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Chiriu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Kuwana, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Yokkaichi, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Ishiyakushi, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Shono, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842

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. Kameyama, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Seki, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Tsuchiyama, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842



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. Kusatsu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa1837-1842


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. Otsu, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Kyoto: The Great Bridge at Sanjo, woodblock print, ink andcolor on paper, circa 1837-1842


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. Kyoto: The Imperial Palace, woodblock print, ink and color onpaper, circa 1837-1842


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. Set of eight unidentified prints, undated


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Japanese prints collection - Boston College Libraries · Japanese Prints Collection circa 1765-1964 ... historical heroes, ghosts, erotic books, ... In Impressions: Japanese Prints