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Calligraphy (top), Old Man Sharpening a Sickle (bottom), from the harimaze series Handbook of Calligraphy and Painting of Recent Times (Kinsei shoga tekagami)

Calligraphy (top), Old Man Sharpening a Sickle (bottom), from the harimaze series Handbook of Calligraphy and Painting of Recent Times (Kinsei shoga tekagami)

(Japanese, 1817–1880)
(Japanese, 1775–1844)
(Japanese)
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban (harimaze); 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession number00.1465
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ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)
Wrapper for Board Game of Famous Places in Edo and Actor Portraits (Edo meisho sugata-e sugoroku)
Wrapper for Board Game of Famous Places in Edo and Actor Portraits (Edo meisho sugata-e sugoroku)
Miyagi Gengyo
Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan, by Ichiryûsai Hiroshige (Dai Nihon Rokujûyoshû meisho zue, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga)
Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan, by Ichiryûsai Hiroshige (Dai Nihon Rokujûyoshû meisho zue, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga)
Miyagi Gengyo
1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month
Calligraphy (top); Butterfly by Yugai and Cherry Branch by Keirin (bottom), from the harimaze series Handbook of Calligraphy and Painting of Recent Times (Kinsei shoga tekagami)
Calligraphy (top); Butterfly by Yugai and Cherry Branch by Keirin (bottom), from the harimaze series Handbook of Calligraphy and Painting of Recent Times (Kinsei shoga tekagami)
Miyagi Gengyo
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month
Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan, by Ichiryûsai Hiroshige (Dai Nihon Rokujûyoshû meisho zue, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga)
Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan, by Ichiryûsai Hiroshige (Dai Nihon Rokujûyoshû meisho zue, Ichiryûsai Hiroshige ga)
Miyagi Gengyo
1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month
Top to bottom, right to left: Calligraphy; Man and Woman Walking, by Moronobu; Bees and Hive, by Unpô; Calligraphy, from the harimaze series Old and New Poems and Writings (Shinko shoga awase)
Top to bottom, right to left: Calligraphy; Man and Woman Walking, by Moronobu; Bees and Hive, by Unpô; Calligraphy, from the harimaze series Old and New Poems and Writings (Shinko shoga awase)
Miyagi Gengyo
1853 (Kaei 6), 12th month
Picture of a Hakutaku (Hakutaku no zu)
Picture of a Hakutaku (Hakutaku no zu)
Miyagi Gengyo
1858 (Ansei 5), 8th month
The Bird of Unselfishness; Also Called Kaichû, It Lives at Manshôzan (Muyoku no tori, Manshôzan ni sumu, ichimei kaichû to iu)
The Bird of Unselfishness; Also Called Kaichû, It Lives at Manshôzan (Muyoku no tori, Manshôzan ni sumu, ichimei kaichû to iu)
Miyagi Gengyo
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)
Wrapper for the book Shinsen eyô tategu hinagata
Wrapper for the book Shinsen eyô tategu hinagata
Miyagi Gengyo
First edition 1852 (Kaei 5)
Title page, from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)
Title page, from the series The Fifty-three Stations [of the Tôkaidô Road] by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi)
Miyagi Gengyo
about 1857 (Ansei 4)
Wrapper for the book Yumiharizuki haru no yûbae (The Crescent Moon in Spring Twilight), Ch. 20
Wrapper for the book Yumiharizuki haru no yûbae (The Crescent Moon in Spring Twilight), Ch. 20
Miyagi Gengyo
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1)
Wrapper for the book Shiranui monogatari, Ch. 32
Wrapper for the book Shiranui monogatari, Ch. 32
Miyagi Gengyo
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1)
Wrapper for the book Shiranui monogatari, Ch. 33
Wrapper for the book Shiranui monogatari, Ch. 33
Miyagi Gengyo
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1)