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    366 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Results for "Beauty Playing a Shamisen"12 records

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Beauty Playing a Shamisen by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beauty Playing a Shamisen

Unrecorded maker

second quarter of the 17th century · Remounted section of a screen; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (d. 1664)

1645–50 · Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined

Cleared · Public Domain

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Beauty of the Kanbun Era by Unidentified artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Unidentified artist

late 17th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Man in a Kneeling Posture Bending Forward and Listening to an Oiran who is Playing the Shamisen by Okumura Masanobu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Man in a Kneeling Posture Bending Forward and Listening to an Oiran who is Playing the Shamisen

Okumura Masanobu (d. 1764)

ca. 1705–7 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Lady Playing the Tanpura by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Lady Playing the Tanpura

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1735 · Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Enjoying the Cool of Evening on a Pleasure Boat, Sheet Two of a Pentaptych (Suzumi-bune gomai-tsuzuki, ni) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Enjoying the Cool of Evening on a Pleasure Boat, Sheet Two of a Pentaptych (Suzumi-bune gomai-tsuzuki, ni)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1796 · Second sheet of a pentaptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Children playing at Horses, from "Illustrated London News" by William Luson Thomas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Children playing at Horses, from "Illustrated London News"

William Luson Thomas (d. 1900)

November 29, 1862 · Wood engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shamisen (三味線) by Shigemoto, Isohachi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shamisen (三味線)

Shigemoto, Isohachi

ca. 1875 · Wood, cloth, skin

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shamisen by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shamisen

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Wood, cloth, skin

Cleared · Public Domain

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An Oiran Playing the Shamisen to a Young Man Kneeling by Her Side in Rapt Attention by Okumura Masanobu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Oiran Playing the Shamisen to a Young Man Kneeling by Her Side in Rapt Attention

Okumura Masanobu (d. 1764)

1912 · Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Biwa

Wakamura workshop

ca. 1891 · Wood, lacquer, gold, white coral?, leather, ivory

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Han Koto

Wakamura workshop

ca. 1891 · Paulownia wood, lacquer, red coral

In copyright

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