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Lion training a cub by Utagawa Hiroshige — VisualArtsDB

Lion training a cub

Lion training a cub

Utagawa Hiroshige

1835–1845

Medium: Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet
Dimensions: 34.4 × 14.9 cm (13 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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View of Fuji san from the Mountains in the Province of Izu (Izu no Sanchu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

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Night View of Matsuchi Hill and the San’ya Canal (Matsuchiyama San’yabori yakei), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

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Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

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Miya: Kagekiyo Visiting the Kannon Temple (Miya, Kagekiyo Kannon mode), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi zue)"

Miya: Kagekiyo Visiting the Kannon Temple (Miya, Kagekiyo Kannon mode), section of sheet no. 12 from the series "Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Suijin Woods and the Shrine at Massaki (Suijin no mori, Massaki yashiro), section of a sheet from the series "Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)"

Suijin Woods and the Shrine at Massaki (Suijin no mori, Massaki yashiro), section of a sheet from the series "Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)"

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Suijin Shrine and Massaki on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Suijin no mori Massaki), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

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Autumn Moon at New Yoshiwara in Emonzaka (Shin Yoshiwara Emonzaka shugetsu), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"

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Numazu, Number 13, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)

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Utagawa Hiroshige, 1847

Hodogaya: Katabira River and Katabira Brige (Hodogaya, Katabiragawa Katabirabashi)—No. 5, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido

Hodogaya: Katabira River and Katabira Brige (Hodogaya, Katabiragawa Katabirabashi)—No. 5, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido

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Eastern Ascent to the Kanda Myojin Shrine (Kanda Myojin higashizaka), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"

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