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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Sites around Edo (present-day Tokyo) were popular subjects of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) prints in the early 1800s. The calligraphy in the red circle on the upper right is the title of the series, The Famous Places in the Eastern Capital . The Ōmori district, on Edo Bay a few miles south of Edo, was known for its cultivation of nori, the crackly sheets of seaweed commonly wrapped around rice balls or sushi rolls. Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicted two women gathering seaweed from cultivation beds. One uses chopsticks, while the other gently rakes the seaweed into the baskets in their boat. The tip of another skiff behind the stand of plants on the right and the cultivation beds in the distance suggest the scale and importance of this industry.
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) — Poem by Emperor T
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) — Yokkaichi: View of
Utagawa Hiroshige — 東海道五十三次 見附 天竜川渡舟|Mitsuke
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) — Picture of the Ten
Katsushika Hokusai — 百人一首 うはかゑとき 天智天皇|Poem by Tenchi Tennō, 
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Utagawa Hiroshige II
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Ikeda Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848) — A Distant View of Snow o
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858) — The Fifty-Three St
