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Title: Zuiken Hill in the Lower Ajikawa River/ 下安治川随見山 (Shimo Aji-kawa Zuiken-yama)
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The top of a ship sail takes up the lower right-hand corner. one of the support ropes of the sail cuts diagonally across the image. Behind the cropped sail is the river and grassy riverbank. Beyond the high grass is small hill surrounded by a grove of trees, gate, and stone lantern indicating a holy site.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Sailing ships -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0017
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100868

Title: The Zesai Pharmacy in Tenga-chaya/ 天下茶やぜさい (Tenga-chaya Zesai)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Depicted is a busy street scene outside the titular pharmacy that is positioned diagonally across the top half of the image. A variety of men, women, and children pass on the street. Several men have stopped at the pharmacy for consultations with staff waiting outside.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0038
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100889

Title: Zakoba-Tsukiji and Kawaguchi/ 川口雑喉場つきじ (Kawaguchi Zakoba-Tsukiji)
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Various townspeople cross the bridge in the foreground, including two geisha likely coming from the tea house/geisha house on the right-side image overlooking the water. Across the water is a large structure that may be some kind of audience hall or performance stage. there are two figure in that structure dressed in formal clothing of the samurai class.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0015
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100866

Title: Zakoba Fish market
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Along the left side boats are docked in a line along the water's edge. On the right is the large wooden market building . Groups of men work together to move boxes and baskets of fish from the boats into the market building.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Markets -- Japan -- Art; Waterfronts -- Japan-_Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0076
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100927

Title: Yui/ 由井
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A teahouse and veranda along the right side are built overlooking a rocky coast. Behind the building steep cliffs drop into the body of water that takes up the left side of the composition. Various travelers rest at the teahouse and admire the view as they pass.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Tearooms -- Japan -- Art; Coasts -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0018
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100755

Title: Yui: The Yui River/ 由井由井川 (Yui, Yuigawa)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Travelers cross a series of simple trestle bridges connected an island in the middle of the river to the two banks. In the background is a large green sloping hill with pine trees scattered all over it. A village can be seen slightly obscured at its base.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0017
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100811

Title: Yui: The Frightful Satta Pass/ 由井薩多峠親知らず (Yui, Satta toge oya shirazu)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A perilous cliff overlooks the sea, even called frightful in the title of the print. At its base the water is rough as it crashes and churns against the rocks. Travelers climb the steep path up the cliff, pine trees line the road as they go. Fuji is above the foot hills and sea, set against a sunset sky.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0017
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100630

Title: Yui: Satta peak/ 由井薩埵嶺 (Yui, Satta Mine)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A snow-capped Fuji can be seen in the distance beyond the harbor where sailing ships travel along the shore. In the foreground, a series of jagged cliffs topped with vegetation and pine trees cut diagonally from the bottom right corner to the top left. On the upper precipice in the top left, two travelers look out over the watery vista dwarfed by the cliff face around them.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0029
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100699

Title: Yuhigaoka at Meguro in the Eastern Capital/ 東都目黒夕日か岡 (Toto meguro Yuhigaoka)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored print), ink and color on paper. Yuhigaoka meaning 'Twilight Hill' is depicted in the fall cover in Japanese maples with bright red-orange leaves. Across the river are open fields and a road leading to a small village. Fuji is the center of the images partially obscured by the trees. Site located in Meguro, Tokyo.
Series: Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji/ 富士三十六景 (Fuji Sanjurokkei)
Subject: Fall foliage -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_F8_0011
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100587

Title: Young Pal Stallings Interview, October 16, 2021
Date: October 16, 2021
Creator: Stallings, Young Pal; Shenk, Katy; Stallings, Young Pal; Shenk, Katy
Description: Young Pal discusses his Japanese identity and his experience in an American school. He speaks to the importance of Chinatown for Asian American communities and describes his poster, which he painted with Japanese characters and phrases, inspired by Miu Eng's theme of migration.
Subject: Miu Eng; art; Chinatown; Asian American history; Japanese American; school; poster; migration
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3207
Rights statement: Copyright for this object is held by American University and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Young boy watches girls carve totumas, or calabash gourds, El Plátano, Panama
Date: 2012-09-22
Creator: Teter, Rachel
Publisher: American University. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Carving (Decorative arts); Gourds -- Panama; Lagenaria siceraria
Country: Panama
Local Identifier: PCCA_Teter_0324
Type: digital images
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:384
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Yotsubashi Bridges
Creator: Utagawa Yoshitaki/ 歌川芳滝 (Signature: Yoshitaki ga/芳瀧画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A view of four bridges crossing over the intersection of the Nagahorigawa and Nishi-Yokoborigawa canals. The townspeople crossing the square of bridges carry umbrellas to protect them from the rain falling in long dark lines across the image. On the far shore of the intersecting canals, a sea of buildings leads back into the image.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Bridges -- Japan -- Art; Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0077
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100928

Title: Yoshiwara: the Famous Sight of Mount Fuji on the Left/ 吉原名所左り富士 (Yoshiwara, meisho hidari Fuji)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Two women one on foot and the other on a horse led by a porter travel together in the bottom right corner along a pine tree-lined road. Behind them are several other travelers coming in and out of frame. To the left beyond the road are green rice fields and a darker green tree line. Beyond the trees, Fuji rises in the distance just slightly left of the center.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Travelers -- Japan -- Art; Fuji Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0016
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100753

Title: Yoshiwara: Mount Fuji on the Left/ 吉原左富士 (Yoshiwara, hidari Fuji)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Three women sitting in a balanced saddle atop a horse led by a man travel a road raised above the rice fields and lined with pine trees. The road winds to the left and reveals other travelers up ahead. In the distance, tree groves and mountains are hidden in the fog. The summit of Fuji rises above them on the horizon.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Travelers -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0026
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100696

Title: Yoshiwara: Fuji on the left at Nawate/ 吉原左り富士ノ縄手 (Yoshiwara, hidari Fuji no nawate)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A path through the rice field goes from the lower right corner to the left middle ground and lined with various trees. Multiple travelers walk along the path. In the background, another line of trees goes along the base of mt. Fuji, rises above the tree line and is framed by the gradients of blue and orange in the sky.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0015
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100809

Title: Yoshiwara: Floating islands in Fuji Marsh/ 吉原不二の沼浮島が原 (Yoshiwara, Fuji no numa ukishima ga hara)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Fishermen float on the edges of the marsh in the foreground. In the midground the roofs of buildings can be seen among towering pines. This is set against the backdrop of a dominating Fuji with clouds drifting around the base and a line of plovers fly across its face. The archive’s print features the striations at the top of Fuji rendered in blue, other versions have these striations in gray.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Marshes -- Japan -- Art; Fuji, Mount (Japan) -- In art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0015
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100628

Title: Yoshida/ 吉田
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the bottom left hand corner, a large bridge crosses the river. Several groups of travelers walk over the bridge. There is a noblewoman in a veil on horseback, two other women traveling on foot, and two men with a child. Down in the water small boats carrying goods dock along the banks of the river. Down the river on the opposite shore the towers of the nearby castle rise above the tree line.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T67_0035
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100829

Title: Yoshida: The Toyokawa River Bridge/ 吉田豊川橋 (Yoshida, Toyokawabashi)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. On the right side, the foreground is Toyokawa Castle, surrounded by scaffolding as painters work on the exterior. To the left, a large trestle bridge crosses the river toward a village surrounded by pines and mountains just beyond.
Series: The Sequel to the Scenes of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/東海道五十三驛風景續畫 (Tokaido gojusantsugi Fukei Tsuzukie)
Subject: Castles -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T65_0047
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100717

Title: Yoshida: The Tenno Festival on the fifteenth Day of the Sixth Month/ 吉田六月十五日天王祭 (Rokugatsu Jugonishi Tennosai)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In a parade scene, viewers watch on either side of the road as the parade leaders, musicians, and ceremonial riders enter from the bottom right-hand corner. According to the title, this is the Tenno Festival which is an annual festival in the Aichi region dedicated to the deity Gozu Tenno, the God of plague, pestilence, and health. In the current day, Gozu Tenno has been amalgamated with the deity Susanoo, the god of sea and storms.
Series: The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road/ 東海道五十三次 (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Subject: Festivals -- Japan -- Art; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T66_0036
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100773

Title: Yoshida: Great Bridge on the Toyo River/ 吉田豊川大はし (Yoshida, Toyokawa ohashi)
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige/ 歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. The head of a daimyo’s procession crosses the bridge over the Toyo. Two peasants are kneeled to the side to let the procession pass and to show their respect to the feudal lord. Cargo ships large and small fill the Toyo river below. The towers of the castle can be seen rising from the mist and trees in the distance.
Series: Famous Sites of the Fifty-Three Stations/五十三次名所図会 (Gojusantsugi Meisho Zue)
Subject: Rivers -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.A5_T64_0035
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100648

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