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From the Streets to the Galleries: Japanese Woodblock Prints at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Hokusai Exhibit 2015 Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Clan Rules 1615- 1850 Kabuki theater Utamaro: Moon at Shinagawa (detail), 1788–1790 Brothel City Fashions UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI, TAKEOUT SUSHI SUGGESTING ATAKA, ABOUT 1844 A Young Man Dallying with a Courtesan about 1680 attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu Book of Prints – Pinnacle of traditional woodblock print making Driving Rain at Shono, Station 46, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokkaido Road, 1833, Ando Hiroshige Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Danshichi 1860, Artist: Kunisada The In Demand Type from the series Thirty Two Physiognomic Types in the Modern World Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 1820s The Mansion of the Plates, From the Series One Hundred Ghost Stories, about 1831, Artist Katsushika Hokusai Taira no Tadanori, from the Series Warriors as Six Poetic Immortals Artist Yashima Gakutei, About 1827, Surimono Meiji Restoration. Forecast for the Year 1890, 1883, Ogata Gekko Young Ladies Looking at Japanese objects, 1869 by James Tissot La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese costume) Claude Monet, 1876 The Fish, Stained glass Window, 1890, John La Farge Academics and Adventurers: Edward S. Morse, Okakura Kakuzo, Ernest Fenollosa, William Sturgis Bigelow New Age Japanese woman, About 1930s Edward Sylvester Morse Whaleback Shell Midden in Damariscotta, Maine Brachiopod Shell Brachiopod worm William Sturgis Bigelow Ernest Fenollosa Okakura Kakuzo Charles T. Spaulding https://www.mfa.org/collections /asia/tour/spaulding-collection Stepping Stones in the Afternoon, Hiratsuka Un’ichi, 1960 Azechi Umetaro, 1954 Reike Iwami, Morning Waves. 1978 Museum of Fine Arts Toulouse Lautrec and the Stars of Paris April 7-August 4 Uniqlo t-shirt. Hokusai, Uniqlo t- shirt Under the Wave at Kanagawa Hokusai Exhibit 2015.

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