Classic Japanese Woodblock Prints

Woodblock prints depicting scenes from Japanese theater, nature, and traditional life, showcasing serene landscapes and cultural narratives in vivid colors.

Mishima in morning mist Mishima asagiri (title on object) The 53 stations of the Tokaido (series title) Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (series title on object), Travelers in a sedan chair and riding a horse early in the village of Mishima, in the background the outlines of a torii (gateway to a Shinto shrine)., Hiroshige (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), 1828 - 1835, paper, colour woodcut, h 232 mm × w 366 mm

Ichi fuji ni taka san nasubi, First dream: fuji, hawks, and eggplants., Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753-1806, artist, [between 1798 and 1801, 1 print (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36.4 x 24.5 cm (left panel), 35.8 x 24.2 cm (center panel), 36 x 24.5 cm (right panel), Print shows five women, four men, and a child in a ferry; one man is poling the boat and one man is a porter seated at the back of the boat with baskets of eggplants, the women, child, and a man holding a falcon on his left forearm, and t

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798-1861. Asahina Yoshihide's Fight with Two Crocodiles in the Sea off Kamakura Kotsubo. Wathed by the Shogun Yoriie (Minamoto no Yoriie ko Kamakura Kotsubo no umi yuran Asahina Yoshihide shiyu no wani o torau zu). 1843. Oban vertical triptych.

The hills at Gotenyama, Edo, with a view of Edo bay, 1790 Ninth and tenth page from the book Fugenzo by Utamaro. Or paper. color woodcut

Japan: 'The Precincts of the Tenmangu Shrine at Kameido'. From the series 'Famous Places in Edo' by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858), 1853. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - October 12, 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred to as Ando Hiroshige, and by the art name of Ichiyusai Hiroshige. Among many masterpieces, Hiroshige is particularly remembered for 'The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido' (1834-1842) and 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' (1852-1858).

Japanese Cage and Manchurian Cranes, from a set Advertising Giant Straw Works in a FairAttraction. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese, 1760-1849

Piece Japan 18th-19th century

36 poets: train with a young prince. .

Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men). Artist: Yoshu (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838-1912). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: L. (page) 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm); W. (page) 9 1/4 in. (23.4 cm); thickness of album 1 9/16 in. (4 cm). Date: 1897. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Painting

Children playing, from 100 Children At Play scroll, Ming Period, 16th - 17th century, China, detail

Music company under a cherry tree View cherry blossom in Ueno (series title) Ueno hanami no tei (series title), Eight people behind a curtain attached to a branch of a blossoming cherry tree, two men playing music and a woman playing koto are sitting with five other women around a sake bottle and lunch boxes., Hishikawa Moronobu (attributed to), Japan, 1673 - 1677, paper, h 256 mm × w 387 mm

A scene of jealousy; a bespectacled older man spies on a couple from beneath a verandah. Coloured woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1830 ().

Album of Thirty Actor Prints. Artist: Sixteen prints by Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865); Fourteen prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 14 1/4 × 9 5/8 × 1/2 in. (36.2 × 24.4 × 1.3 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Empress Jingu was consort to Emperor Chuai (notionally 192 - 200 CE), she also served as Regent from the time of her husband's death in 209 until her son Emperor jin acceded to the throne in 269. No firm dates can be assigned to this historical figure's life or reign. Jing is regarded by historians as a 'legendary' figure because of the paucity of information about her. Legend has it that she led an army in an invasion of Korea and returned to Japan victorious after three years. However, this theory is widely rejected even in Japan as there is no evidence of Japanese rule in any part of Korea at this early period. Some believe that Empress Jing's conquest is only based on the Gwanggaeto Stele (in Jilin, China). But the legend of Jing's invasion of the Korean peninsula also appears in the ancient Japanese chronicles Kojiki written in 680 and Nihon Shoki written in 720.

Ferry boat. Katsushika Hokusai ; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1804-1814. Dimensions: 18.4 x 51.4 cm (7 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.). Color woodblock print; nagaban, surimono. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The Brazier of Elegance and the Bell of Damnation (Fuga hibachi muken no kane). Okumura Masanobu; Japanese, 1686-1764. Date: 1734-1745. Dimensions: 32.7 x 45.7 cm. Hand-colored woodblock print; oban, beni-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

'Heir Teacher'. China, late 19th - early 20th century. Dimensions: 54x31 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Dancer and four musicians, 1802, Nakamura Hōchū, Japanese, died 1819, 10 x 14 3/8 in. (25.4 x 36.5 cm) (image, sheet), From a woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, Page from Kōrin gafu (琳畫譜), vol. 2

Unit of the knight Rikiya breaking down the door of Moronao Castle, 2nd episode from the 11th act /Youchi no ni rannyu, from the series: Treasury of fideIIty /Chushingura HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai (1797 1858)

Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo), Masamochi, Ishikawa, Utaba, Haikai, Utamaro, Kitagawa, Waka Ebisu, Lion dance, Street scene with dancers and some people under a cloth with a lion's head, and spectators behind a window. In book with kyoka (comic poems) and images of New Year's customs., book, print, prints, Japan (collection), height 258 mm, width 185 mm, Japanese, 1753 - 1806, print maker, printmaker, 1790 - 1795, fourth quarter 18th century, paper, colour woodcut, 1753 - 1829, writer, 1753 - 1830, editor, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Playing blind man, View of the Kankanro teahouse with different courtesans in the garden blind man playing with a man in black kimono, blind man's buff, Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), Tokyo, 1792 - 1796, paper, colour woodcut, h 387 mm × w 250 mm × h 386 mm × w 250 mm × h 385 mm × w 250 mm

Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, mid 1700s. Attributed to Tatebayashi Kagei (Japanese, active mid-1700s). Two-fold screen; ink, color, and gold on paper; image: 170 x 182.8 cm (66 15/16 x 71 15/16 in.); overall: 174.4 x 187.2 cm (68 11/16 x 73 11/16 in.); closed: 94 x 4 cm (37 x 1 9/16 in.).

Yokohama Gankiro gaikokujin gyoretsu no zuPicture of a Procession of Foreigners at Yokohama. Artist: Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active ca. 1850-1870). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image (a): 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (36.2 x 24.8 cm)Image (b): 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (36.2 x 24.8 cm)Image (c): 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (36.2 x 24.8 cm). Date: 2nd month, 1861. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Shutendōji, Blatt 18.

Piece 19th century Japan. Piece 67568

Chintz Fragment (India); cotton; Warp x Weft: 37 x 51 cm (14 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Battle scenes from the Tale of Heike (Heike Monogatari) by Anonymous / Art Gallery of South Australia / First third of 17th cen. / Japan / Watercolour and ink on paper / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 155x357

The Port of London, England (Igirisu Rondon no kaiko), from the series "Collection of Scenic Places in Foreign Lands (Bankoku meisho zukushi no uchi)". Utagawa Yoshitora; Japanese, active c. 1836-87. Date: 1862. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Humayun, Mughal Emperor, miniature on cotton by Mir Sayyid Ali, Persia 16th Century.

Nissaka, Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, 1804., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 11.2 x 16.6 cm., Print shows a man standing on a large square of cloth spread on the ground, he is playing miniature drums suspended from his waist and is wearing a miniature torii over his shoulders; behind him, sitting on the cloth is another man playing drums; coins are scattered on the cloth.

Oriental figures

Gong; The big tail. Humorous erotic print; Group of naked men and a dressed hostel, two running men encouraging; When striking a gong hanging on a penis.

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion first quarter of the14th century Japan This action-packed fragment is one of fourteen salvaged from a handscroll illustrating the epic narrative The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion, which describes the confrontation in late 1159 between two military clans: the Minamoto (also known as the Genji) and the Taira (Heike). Their conflict led to the collapse of aristocratic courtier control of the government, and the rise of autocratic rule by a series of warrior clans. The original handscroll was severely damaged in the eighteenth century, and the portion that survived was cut into sections which were then remounted as hanging scrolls; fourteen are still extant. This detail from a battle scene depicts a frantic melée of armored soldiers and horses, with two warriors of the Taira clan closing in on a Minamoto soldier. As the latter draws his sword, one of the Heike warriors grabs for his horses trappings while another seizes his helmet and

Scroll 3, scene 18. 1650 - 1699. Illustrations, Manuscripts. Spencer Collection

Two Chinese men in a landscape; New converted sinesen with great Moeyte signed and is given in it, by P. Schenk Jun (...), first part. Links two Chinese men in a landscape. A river in the middle. On the right a building.

Japan, Yoshiiku, Utagawa, A flourishing English trading house in Yokohama, Right sheet of the triptych., print, prints, Japan (collection), height mm, width mm, Japanese, 1833 - 1904, print maker, printmaker, 1871-08 - 1871-08, paper, woodcut

No. 3 - Autumn: Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series "Pleasures of the Four Seasons (Shiki no asobi)". Okumura Toshinobu; Japanese, active c. 1717-50. Date: 1725-1735. Dimensions: 6 3/8 x 13 1/2 in. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban yoko-e, urushi-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Scroll 3, scene 38. 1650 - 1699. Illustrations, Manuscripts. Spencer Collection

Serenade; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); 1908 (1908-00-00-1908-00-00);

Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) ca. 1634 Painting by Tawaraya Sōtatsu Japanese This poem card comes from a set of more than twenty surviving sheets, each of which is illustrated with a scene from the tenth-century Tales of Ise and accompanied by a poem from the relevant chapter inscribed by a calligrapher of the day. In this episode, a courtier traveling on Mount Utsu (literally, mountain of sadness”) meets an itinerant monk on his way to Kyoto and asks him to give his regards to a lover in the distant capital.Suruga naru Utsu no yamabe no utsutsu ni mo yume ni mo hito ni awanu narikeri Amid the sad hills”of Mount Utsuin Suruga Province,I cannot meet my lover,not even in my dreams.—Trans. John T. Carpenter. Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) 52988

Blindemannetje playing, Nakamura Hôchû, 1826 print Group of men and children around a blindfolded man. Or paper color woodcut blind-man's buff

China: Qingming Shang Tu or 'Along the River During the Qingming Festival' (detail), Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145) original scroll painting dating from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

Suhara, DownPour, Board 40 from the Series: Sixty Nine Stages of the Kiso Kaido Road /Kaido Rokujukyuu TSUGI NO Uchi

Tokyo, Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo), Japan, Shunsen, Katsukawa, The Ide Tama River, lower right - stamped, Woman on horseback, accompanied by four maids walking through a shallow river whose banks are overgrown with shrubs with yellow flowers (yamabuki)., print, prent, prints, prenten, Japan (collection), height 246 mm, width 364 mm, Japanese, print maker, prentmaker, 1800 - 1810, first quarter 19th century, paper, papier, nishiki-e, colour woodcut, blind stamp, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Fragment of a wall covering with Chinese genre scenes, anonymous, c. 1775 - c. 1790 Fragment of a wall extension with Chinese genre scenes. In the foreground a jank with crew. On the rocky bank four men and two boys, ranging to the left, dressed in dark robbery and cone -shaped white hat with red brush and followed by four men, two on horseback. In the middle plan a terrace with a red gallery, in which women with trumpets and lanterns go to the left, followed by women and children with pajengs and musical instruments. Three Chinese people look over a wall. Background with flowering bushes and with rocks, on which a Kijlin with thunder motifs on the left, a carbouw is driven on the right and children with a ball (hedgehog). Visit with mountain tops and houses. A bird in the air. China satin Fragment of a wall extension with Chinese genre scenes. In the foreground a jank with crew. On the rocky bank four men and two boys, ranging to the left, dressed in dark robbery and cone -shaped whit

A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo nagamonogatari) ca. 1400 Unidentified artist A Long Tale for an Autumn Night represents a genre of story that became popular in Japan in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It tells of an amorous affair between a Buddhist monk and a younger male acolyte (chigo). The usual outcome of these tragic tales is the monk's attainment of religious salvation after repenting his obsession with carnal pleasures. A Long Tale for an Autumn Night comprises three illustrated handscrolls (emaki), with the narrative progressing from right to left. Note the use of a device called iji dzu (literally, "different time, same illustration"), in which the same figures appear multiple times in a single pictorial segment so that several events can be depicted simultaneously. At an earlier point, the first section of this handscroll was excised and mounted separately as a hanging scroll. In 2005 the Museum acquired the missing section and restored it to its ori

Scroll 3, scene 4. 1650 - 1699. Illustrations, Manuscripts. Spencer Collection

SIXTY NINE STAGES OF THE KISO ROAD /KISOKUJUKYU TSUGI NO UCHI Eisen, Keisai (1790 1848), HIROSHIGE, Ichiryusai (1797 1858)

Edo, Utamaro, Kitagawa, The Second Floor of a Brothel, Eighteenth and nineteenth pages of part one of Utamaro`s book: Events in the Pleasure Houses During the Year., page, prints, Japan (collection), height 224 mm, width 158 mm, Japanese, 1753 - 1806, print maker, printmaker, 1804 - 1804, first quarter 19th century, paper, colour woodcut

Takanawa Igirisu kan (British house in Takanawa) 1868 by Hiroshige, 1842-1894. Japanese print shows buildings with people walking and a man riding horseback on the street in the foreground;a Japanese flag flying in the background.

'Lu Menchzhen Does Not Get Dinner'. China, late 19th - early 20th century. Dimensions: 60x35 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Mori Ranmaru Killed in Battle at Honnoji (Honnoji ni Mori Ranmaru uchijini no zu), from the series The Record of Toyotomi's Achievements (Toyotomi kunkoki) 1886 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban triptych . Utagawa Yoshifuji

Building the Great wall of China. 16th cent. engraving CHINA.

Yotsuya Naitō Shinjuku (new lodging houses). Colour woodcut by Hiroshige, 1857.

Scene from The Kōrin Picture Book (Volume 1), 1800s. Nakamura Hōchū (Japanese, d. 1819). Color woodblock printed book; Ogata Korin (1658-1716) was one of the most admired artists of Rimpa, or "decorative school painting." These books by the charming later-generation Rimpa artist Hochu record Korin's inventive designs.

The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin September 14, 1792 James Gillray British. The Reception of the Diplomatique and his Suite at the Court of Pekin. James Gillray (British, London 1756-1815 London). September 14, 1792. Hand-colored etching. Hannah Humphrey (London). Prints

Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, mid 19th century, Ikeda Koson, Japanese, 1802 - 1867, 68 1/16 × 68 3/8 in. (172.88 × 173.67 cm) (image)69 1/2 × 69 7/8 × 3/4 in. (176.53 × 177.48 × 1.91 cm), Ink and color on silk, Japan, 19th century, The throng of figures on this two-panel screen is identifiable as the so-called 'Thirty-Six Immortal Poets,' recognized as paragons of classical Japanese poetry already in the tenth century. The left panel features eighteen poets, while the right features only seventeen. A thirty-sixth figure, Saigū no Nyōgoone of five female poets in the groupis hidden behind a curtain at upper right. Ikeda Koson’s composition is based on a seventeenth century original by Ōgata Kōrin, a prominent artist of the Rinpa school of Japanese painting.

View of a Military Review Parade at Aoyama. Artist: Utagawa Kunisada II (Japanese, 1823-1880). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Triptych 13 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. (35 x 70.5 cm). Date: Feb. 1889 (Meiji 22). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Yokkaichi, Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, 1804., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 11.4 x 16.4 cm., Print shows two women travelers smoking pipes, sitting in baskets on a horse, with a male attendant, at a shrine.

360 professions "; early 20th century () (1901-00-00-1910-00-00); was downloaded from the Muse of the National Museum in Warsaw; printing / print / color printing; products from W Paper; height 37.0 cm, width 51.8 cm; Skazvr 89 MNW; all rights reservation.

Japan: Illustrated Biography of Prince Shotoku in ten panels, panels five and six. Painting on silk, Hata no Chitei, Heian Period (11th Century), Tokyo National Museum

Fan: The Races at La Marche. John Lewis Brown; French, 1829-1890. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 380 × 750 mm. Lithograph printed in five colors on ivory wove paper, mounted on a fan armature. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: John Lewis Brown.

Drawing, One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man; japan watercolor on silk or paper; 1908-17-12

One of Sixteen Scenes of the Death and Burial of a Man, Japan watercolor on silk or paper, From a series of sixteen scenes of the death and burial of a man in Japan., Japan, 19th century, Drawing, Drawing

Soviet Propaganda Magazine Interior, Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Atheist at his Bench) Magazine, Illustration by Nikolai Kogout, 1920's

Picture of a Parade of the Five Nations 3rd month, 1861 Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide Japanese. Picture of a Parade of the Five Nations. Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (Japanese, 1807-1878/79). Japan. 3rd month, 1861. Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Two warriors fighting, painting by Dervish Muhammed from the Tabriz School, 1480, 15th Century.

Drawing, The Little Fish and the Fisher-Man, Illustration for Aesop's Fables; Victor Wilbour; USA; pen and red ink, crayon on white board; 15.2 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.); 1918-44-11

Ishiyakushi, Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, 1804., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 11.3 x 16.4 cm., Print shows an elderly traveler or monk reading banners hanging above a watering trough; his hat is on the ground behind him.

fine arts, Japan, graphics, ""the doctor Hua Tuo operating arm of wounded general Guan Yu"", second half 19th century, colour woodcut, private collection,

With some 2000 religious sites - 1600 Buddhist temples and 400 Shinto shrines, as well as palaces, gardens and architecture, Kyoto is one of the best preserved and most culturally distinguished cities in Japan. Among the most famous temples are Kiyomizu-dera, a magnificent wooden temple supported by pillars off the slope of a mountain; Kinkaku-ji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion; Ginkaku-ji, the Temple of the Silver Pavilion; and Ryoan-ji, famous for its rock garden. The Heian Jingu is a Shinto shrine, built in 1895, celebrating the Imperial family and commemorating the first and last emperors to reside in Kyoto. Three special sites have connections to the imperial family: the Kyoto Gyoen area including the Kyoto Imperial Palace and Sento Imperial Palace, homes of the Emperors of Japan for many centuries; Katsura Imperial Villa, one of the nation's finest architectural treasures; and Shugaku-in Imperial Villa, one of its best Japanese gardens. The 'Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto

A Picture of Prosperity: America (Amerika shin no zu). Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu); Japanese, 1826-1869. Date: 1861. Dimensions: 37.2 x 75.2 cm. Color woodblock print; oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

'Banquet'. China, 20th century. Dimensions: 51,5x37,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Netherlands, Deventer, Lange, Jan de (II), Sjog, dear sitt'se bier to drinken, Kan nei kanne fol to seinken (...), Beer wagons, verso - stamped, Sheet with 2 representations of beer wagons. Above an eight-line verse in Frisian., print, prent, volksprent, prints, prenten, volksprenten, height 334 mm, width 400 mm, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, 1799-04-21 - 1849-11-06, publisher, uitgever, 1822 - 1849, paper, papier, houtcut, letterpress printing, boekdruk, kleuren, print maker, prentmaker

Adachi Ginko (1853-1908) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist active during the 19th century. Born as Adachi Heishichi in 1853, he studied under the painter Goseda Horyu and began designing woodblock prints as early as 1870, though his earliest surviving prints date to 1873. He was very active as a member of the Utagawa school and worked in different genres, from portraits to landscapes, illustrations, satirical works and triptychs of contemporary events. His most successful work were a series of triptychs in the late 1880s called the 'Pictorial Outline of Japanese History'. Ginko was arrested and jailed in 1889 for his caricatures of the Meiji Emperor during the controversial era of the Meiji Constitution decree. He was imprisoned for a year, but continued to produce prints after his release, with his last known work dating to 1908, after which he disappears from any public record.

Men with Animal Heads, watercolor

Japanese Album. 1865. Photographs. Albumen prints in album

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