Browse Items (56 total)

Chinese Movable Types

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A box of Chinese movable types, probably of wood. It is unknown when and where they were made.
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library

Chinese Woman and Attendant

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From the series A Mirror of Stone Rubbings by Ancient and Modern Masters of the Brush
Designed by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Woodblock printed colors on paper, 1832-33
Gift of the Johnson Family Trust 2000.1.84

Cicada and Snow Peas
By Yang Yi, 16-17th c.

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Colors on silk
Pettus Collection 2026, Scripps College

Eternal Grasses: A Book of Illustrations, Ehon Tokiwagusa

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Designed by Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1750), published by Murata Shotaro of Osaka
Woodblock printed books, 3 volumes, ink on paper, dated 1731
Gift of the Johnson Family Trust, 2003.6.1, Scripps College

Insects, Birds and Flowers
Artist unknown (doubtful signature of Qian Xuan, 1235-1305), 18-19th c.

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Colors on silk handscroll (87” long), conserved 2009 by Bokusendo, Kyoto
Munthe Collection xx.1.35, Scripps College

Japanese woodblock plate, with sample printout.

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Japanese woodblock plate, with sample printout.
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library

Mongolian Woodblock Plate

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Mongolian woodblock plate carved with Buddhist sutra.
Date and origin unknown.
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library

The Priest Raigo of Miidera

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From the series Yoshitoshi’s New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts
Designed by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Woodblock printed colors on paper, 1891
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer 93.3.33, Scripps College

十朝聖訓, 清光緒四年(1878)刻本
Imperial Edicts of Ten Dynasties of the Qing Empire
Qing dynasty, Guangxu 4 (1878)

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Woodblock-printed book, ink on paper, 10 x 6.4 in. (26 × 16 cm)
250 volumes in 40 cases,DS754.Sh61
Special Collections & Libraries, Claremont Colleges Library