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JAPAN  -- THE PORTRAYALS


The images presented here are done so in the interests of education.  The footnote numbers below the images correspond to the appropriate footnotes on the text pages where the full image is described.  Those footnotes not included here belong to images which either are too small to do justice to the subject or have not yet been gotten.  Please note that as most of the portrayals depict these magical miniature landscapes as part of a larger human scene, the images cannot always be completely separated from the surrounding figures or background.  An "*" indicates that the color version of the image is still to be gotten.

This Page Last Updated: March 4, 2001





Note:    Pre-1600 Japanese Portrayals will be displayed in a future update to this page.


From  Japan -- Tokugawa Period (Part I)

 17th cent. [1]
 17th cent. [2]
 Torii Kiyomasu, early 18th cent. [3]
Torii Kiyomitsu, c.1760s [4]

 
 Yanagisawa Ki-en, mid-18th cent. [9]
Suzuki Harunobu, late 1760s [11]
 Suzuki Harunobu, mid-18th cent. [12]
 Suzuki Harunobu, mid-18th cent. [13]

 
* Koryusai, late 18th cent. [15]
Eishosai Choki, late 18th cent. [16]
 Torii Kiyonaga, c.1770s to pre-1790 [17]
 Torii Kiyonaga, mid-1770s [18]

 
Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779 [19]
 Utamaro Kitagawa 1786-88 [23]
 Utagawa Toyokuni, late 18th cent. [27]
 Torin Tsutsumi, c.1795 [28]

 
 
 
 Lacquered inkbox, c.mid-18th cent. [30]
 Koma Yasutada, 18th - 19th cent. [31]
 
 

From  Japan -- Tokugawa Period (Part II)
 Ryuryukyo Shinsai, 1822 [4]
Ryuryukyo Shinsai, 1822 [4]
 Keisai Eisen, early 1820s [5]
 Keisai Eisen, 1825 [6]

 
 Keisai Eisen, late 1820s [7]
Keisai Eisen, early 19th cent. [8] 
* Katsushika Hokusai, 1822 [9]
Katsushika Hokusai, 1822 [10] 

 
Katsukawa Shuntei, c.1823 [11]
Tosaian Namboku, 1820 [12]
Katsushika Taito II, 1831 [13]
Katsushika Taito II, early 1830s [14]

 
Ando Hiroshige, early 19th cent. [16]
 Utagawa Kuniyoshi, mid-1840s [17]
 Utagawa Kunisada, 1853 [18]
 Utagawa Kunisada, 1853 [18]

From  Japan -- Meiji Era
 
 
 
 Tessai, 1890 [4]
 
 
 

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