Japanese Woodblock Prints

Color woodblock prints showcasing traditional Japanese scenes and characters, featuring women in elaborate clothing, nature motifs, and cultural narratives.

Parrot, c. 1772 print Two women, one standing, the other kneeling with food bowl in hands, looking at parrot on rack. In the background a glimpse out, with wooden veranda and pine. paper color woodcut adult woman (+ two persons). loggia, verandah, porch. bird on a cord or string

Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 1895 Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese. Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 55858

Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask 1794-1809 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Kitagawa Utamaro

Women Visiting Mimeguri Shrine. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1783-1793. Dimensions: 38.8 x 25.6 cm. Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Cock on Drum ca. 1825 Totoya Hokkei Japanese. Cock on Drum 54182

Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 1895 Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu Japanese. Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women) 55822

Chopsticks are short tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length, which are used as the traditional eating utensils of China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Generally believed to have originated in ancient China, they can also be found in some areas of Tibet and Nepal that are close to Han Chinese populations, as well as areas of Thailand, Laos and Burma which have significant Chinese populations. Chopsticks are most commonly made of wood, bamboo or plastic, but are also made of metal, bone, ivory. Chopsticks are held in the dominant hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.

Stopping place of the Tokaido, 1835 - 1845 print Love couple with gold -colored space screen with painting of plum blossom branches. paper. color woodcut coitus, cohabiting, sexual intercourse

Rzeka Chidori NO TAMAGAWA W PROWINCJI MUTSU / Mutsu no Kuni Chidori no Tamagawa

Two Women Carried Across a River by Porters, right sheet of the triptych Illustration of Two-Way Traffic on the Oi River. Date: third month 1853. Dimensions: 38 cm x 26 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: UTAGAWA KUNISADA.

Yokohama kenbutsu zuePicture of Sights in Yokohama: Woman with a Ringer, Lamp Post, a Steamboat at Full Sail and a Woman with a Sewing Machine. Artist: Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active ca. 1850-1870). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 14 3/4 x 10 in. (37.5 x 25.4 cm). Date: 11th month, 1860. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

(Untitled) 1797-1858 Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese. (Untitled). Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797-1858 Tokyo (Edo)). Japan. 1797-1858. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 9 June 1892) one of the last great masters of the classical Japanese colour woodcut, here the work Moon of the Pleasure Quarters

English man sorting fabrics for trade in Yokohama (Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zu), Japanese Prints - Hiroshige

Hazy Morning Sunlight at Ryoguku, from the series Elegant Eight Views of Edo Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, ca. 1766-1788). Hazy Morning Sunlight at Ryoguku, from the series Elegant Eight Views of Edo, 1766-1788. Color woodblock print on paper, 15 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (38.4 x 25.1 cm). Asian Art 1766-1788

Ebisu- Bishamon (Kyogen), from the series Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue) 1893-1903 Japan. Color woodblock print . Tsukioka Kôgyo

Evening Snow on the Heater late 18th century Suzuki Harunobu Japanese The interior scene in this print is fortified by double windows, both a series of bars and shoji sliding panels. The windows, however, are open. One woman, seated and holding a pipe, seems to expect that she will be seen by a man through the gaps and will be able to arrange an assignation.The other woman is making wadding by stretching sheets of floss silk over the lacquered dome-shaped heaters known as nurioke. Floss silk draped over a nurioke represents the "evening snow" in this print, one of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, which originated in China and became popular in Japan. The karazuri embossing technique outlines the shape of the floss silk, emphasizing its softness. This print is not a first edition: Slight variations in color and patterns on the walls were added, and the seal of the commissioner, Kyosen, was omitted for the commercial product.. Evening Snow on the Heater 56879

Wishes, 1801 print Fish seller, squatting a fish cut open, looking at a woman on high Geta a bowl -handing, watched by a woman with a tray in her left and boiler in her right hand; Interior of home in the background. print maker: Japanpublisher: Tokyo paper nishiki-e / color woodcut preparation of food. fisherman

Beauty Composing a Poem on a Tanzaku Card, Third Flower Viewing Gakutei Harunobu (Japanese, ca. 1786-1868).. Color woodblock print on paper, 8 1/8 x 7 3/16 in. (20.6 x 18.3 cm). Asian Art

1970P129.63, 1970P129.64, 1970P129.65, 1970P129.66 Framed together. Album of Theatrical prints, c.1786-1865. Printer: Kunisada Utagawa

Honorable Mr. Cat. Helen Hyde; American, 1868-1919. Date: 1903. Dimensions: 176 x 183 mm (image/block); 265 x 280 mm (sheet). Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Goyi Hashiguchi (Hashiguchi Goyi, December 21, 1880 - February 24, 1921) was a Japanese painter and woodblock artist. Hashiguchi was born Hashiguchi Kiyoshi in Kagoshima Prefecture. His father Hashiguchi Kanemizu was a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijo style. His father hired a teacher in the Kano style of painting in 1899 when Kiyoshi was only ten. Kiyoshi took the name of Goyo while attending the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated best in his class in 1905.

Tiger, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1765-1777. Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Katsukawa Shunshi (1726 - January 19, 1793) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshi studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chi shun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunshi is most well known for introducing a new form of yakusha-e, prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars to be 'the best in the second half of the 18th century'. Shunshi first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began his own style, which would later be dubbed the Katsukawa school. Among his students were the famous ukiyo-e artists Shunchi, Shun'ei, and Hokusai.

Tickling her foot 1760-1770 Japan. Color woodblock print; chuban . Suzuki Harunobu

. Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych . Utagawa Toyokuni I

Bush Clovers in Summer, from the series "Choicest Odes Upon Flowers of the Four Seasons (Shuku awase, shiki no hana)". Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1781-1801. Date: 1787-1795. Dimensions: 26 x 20.3 cm (10 1/4 x 8 in.). Color woodblock print; chuban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

7. 'The emergence of the moths', depicting two girls watching moths lay eggs on a piece of paper, another standing and looking at the scene. Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1753 - October 31, 1806) was a Japanese printmaker and painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Sumida outing. Edo. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Utagawa Kuniyasu.

Portrait of Ichikawa Tomiemon, The Actor Ichikawa Tomiemon, full-length, in the role of the rich farmer Inokuma Mombei, holding a large hoe behind his back, against yellow background. Scene from the play Keisei sanbon karakasa, performed at Miyako-za in 1794, Ichikawa Tomiemon I, Toshusai Sharaku (mentioned on object), 1794, paper, colour woodcut, h 325 mm × w 151 mm

Shangguan Wan'er (664-21 July 710), imperial consort rank Zhaorong, posthumous name Wenhui, was the granddaughter of Shangguan Yi (formally Duke of Chu) and was one of the women most famous in Chinese history for her talent. She was a poet, writer and politician of the Tang Dynasty, as well as an imperial consort (concubine) of Emperor Zhongzong.

Japan: Amerikajin - Bango Wakai ('Americans - Japanese Translations of Barbaric Languages'), woodblock print , Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 1850 - 1870), 1863

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as the Thunder God, an Incarnation of Sugawara Michizane, in the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eighth Month, 1776 1771-1781 Japan. Color woodblock print; hosoban . Katsukawa Shunsho

The Jewel River at Ide (Ide no Tamagawa), from the series Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa) 1764-1770 Japan. Color woodblock print; hashira-e . Suzuki Harunobu

Horn-Blower, Japanese Prints

Nederlander En Een Chinese, Utagawa Yoshikazu, 1861 print A Dutchman with a cigar in his hand stands next to a Chinese with a bottle. In the background a Western ship. (Yokohama-e). paper color woodcut Europeans (with NAME). Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Illustration for lyrics du Fu; 1959-1962 (1959-00-00-1962-00-00);

Cherry Blossom Rain. Helen Hyde; American, 1868-1919. Date: 1905. Dimensions: 432 x 250 mm (image/block); 493 x 296 mm (sheet). Color woodcut on paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Women on a Balcony of a Yoshiwara Teahouse. Katsukawa Shuncho; Japanese, active c. 1780-1801. Date: 1780-1789. Dimensions: 36.4 x 26 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.). Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Rzeka IDE NO TAMAGAWA W PROWINCJI YAMASHIRO / YAMASHIRO NO KUNI IDE NO TAMAGAWA

Banquet at a Foreign Merchant House in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shoka shuen no zu). Utagawa Sadahide; Japanese, 1807-1873. Date: 1861. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Young Woman Hanging a Painting. Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1766-1776. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; hashira-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron). Artist: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm); W. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm)medium-size print (chu-ban). Date: 1764-72.Of all ukiyo-e prints of lovers, this one creates the most romantic and melancholic mood. Harunobu emphasizes the intimacy of two lovers strolling in the snow, even suggesting perhaps a michiyuki, a path to a love suicide. The couple walk together in the quietly falling snow, in what is known as an ai ai gasa pose, literally, the sharing of an umbrella and love. Harunobu, the originator of the polychrome print, or nishiki-e, shows his mastery of color, rendering the couple's robes in paired black and white, characterized as "crow and heron." In contrast to the plain colors, he decorates both the inner robe and the obi of each figure with elaborate polychrome patterns. Embossing brings out the soft, flaky texture of the snow and the patterns of the woman's kimono and hood. This pr

Bijinga: three beautiful girls resting at the river. Utamaro, Kitagawa (1753-1806), graphic artist

Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1753 - October 31, 1806) was a Japanese printmaker and painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). He is known especially for his masterfully composed studies of women, known as bijinga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Japanese woman wearing kimono by Utagawa Kunisada, Color woodcut, circa 1820, 1786-1865, Private Collection

Widow and young man, 1815 - 1823 print Man in black cloak the love with naked woman. paper color woodcut man and woman cohabiting

'Fairy Magu'. China, City of Peking, late 19th - early 20th century. Dimensions: 55x99 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

The letter. Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926. 1891. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Couple Lighting Pipes Under a Plum Tree. Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1767-1777. Dimensions: 27 3/4 x 5 in. Color woodblock print; hashira-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

'The Three Laughers', 16th century (1886). Artist: Unknown

On the threshold of the a teahouse. Okabe, from the series: Fifty Fifty three stops on the Tokaido highway /Tokaido gojusan tsugi Katsushika, hokusai (1760 1849)

Among the Five Nations Americans (Gokakoku no uchi, Amerikajin) 1861 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban . Utagawa Yoshikazu

Two Sages Gazing at a Beauty Treading Cloth (parody of Kume Sennin) 1764-1770 Japan. Color woodblock print; hashira-e . Suzuki Harunobu

Barcelona. Cartel de los grandes almacenes de novedades para señora La Innovación. Año 1925.

Puppeteer. Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu; Japanese, active c. 1717-50. Date: 1725-1735. Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

HET BEZOEK, HOSODA EISHI, 1788-1792 print Princess, with court ladies, visiting the home of Edelman. print maker: Japanpublisher: Tokyo paper color woodcut visiting; receiving guests; elegant company. housing. parasol, sunshade

American Horsewoman 1st month, 1861 Utagawa Yoshitora Japanese. American Horsewoman. Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active ca. 1850-80). Japan. 1st month, 1861. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Women in a Palanquin Carried by Porters Across a River and Mount Fuji in the Distance, central sheet of a triptych. Date: 1847-1852, Edo. Museum: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Author: UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE.

Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital in Hiroshima (Yasen byōin gyōkō no zu) 1895 Kobayashi Kiyochika Japanese. Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital in Hiroshima (Yasen byōin gyōkō no zu) 55348

. Color woodblock print; hashira-e . Isoda Koryusai

Painted figures come to life. Painter, sitting in front of his canvas, looking at the painted figures.

Amerikajin. Artist: Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active ca. 1850-1870). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (36.8 x 24.8 cm). Date: 1862. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Japan's Fairest, Japan still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

In the omnibus.. Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926. 1891. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Shanghai advertising poster, c1930s. Artist: Unknown

A Couple of Lovers Playing with a Monkey 1780 Torii Kiyonaga Japanese. A Couple of Lovers Playing with a Monkey 55360

In the Snow at Tokyo 1900 United States. Color soft ground etching on paper . Helen Hyde

Sur les talus , Embankments, Walking. Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923). Lithographs

Blossom Child 1902 United States. Color etching on ivory Japanese paper . Helen Hyde

Merchants of Yokohama: French Woman on Horseback (Yokohama shokan, Furansujin umanori no zu). Utagawa Sadahide; Japanese, 1807-1873. Date: 1861. Dimensions: . Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Scaramouche and Columbine ca. 1741 Meissen Manufactory German. Scaramouche and Columbine 203073

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