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Ukiyo-e (Edo Period)

12,764 works

Pen drawing of a standing kabuki-style figure in white robes beside a fan-shaped portrait cartouche with Japanese text.

Drawing Intended as Design for an Actor Print

Utagawa Kunisada, 1833-47

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a black robe at a red railing, with a seated attendant below.

踊形容外題尽樓門五三桐南禅寺の場

Utagawa Kunisada, 1857

Woodblock print of three courtesans in green patterned kimono, with a man holding a parasol and an attendant.

Courtesans Drawn in Osaka style (right), Kyoto style (center), and Edo style (left), from "Courtesans of the Three Ca…

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1748

Woodblock print of a figure in a floral kimono beside a stylized pine branch, with a Japanese inscription.

A Famous Actor of Women's Roles

Kitao Shigemasa, ca. 1764

Three kamuro attendants in patterned kimono in a room with buckets and flowers, Japanese woodblock print by Okumura Masanobu.

Child Attendants: A Set of Three (Kamuro sanpukutsui)

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1744/51

Diptych woodblock print of two figures in kimono before Mount Fuji, one holding a walking stick, the other in a flat straw ha

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Tall Woman in a Flat Straw Hat

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1778

Woodblock print of travelers in rain crossing a snowy plain below mountains, with a red title cartouche at upper right.

末広五十三次.原

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1865

Woodblock print of a standing figure in a straw hat and black robe holding a checkered staff, with patterned yellow kimono.

The Actor Tsutsui Kichijuro

Okumura Toshinobu, c. 1725

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a straw hat holding a sword, wearing a yellow kimono with plum blossom patterns.

The Actor Sawamura Kamesaburo as Nagoya Kosanza in the play "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya," performed at the Nakamura Theat…

Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu, 1731

Woodblock print of a bearded man in a blue hat riding a reddish horse, with a pink Japanese text scroll at upper left.

An American on Horseback

Utagawa Yoshitora, ca. 1861

Japanese print of an ornate drum with dragon and cloud designs, small chickens below, and calligraphy on pale paper.

Chickens and Drum

Rintei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a naval officer and nurse beside a patient's bed in a hospital room with a window.

The Torpedo Officer (Suirai shikan), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 1, no. 8

Kajita Hanko, ca. 1900

Japanese woodblock print of a standing woman in a red kimono and a seated man in green beside a box and fans.

Osome and Hisamatsu

Okumura Toshinobu, c. 1720

Woman in a feathered hat and maroon jacket beside a street lamp, with a silhouetted man walking along a misty shoreline.

Print - Tsuneshige, 1900

Tsuneshige, ca. 1900

Woodblock print of a procession on a hillside with Western men and a woman in red, Japanese attendants, pines, and yellow-roo

Hodogaya

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1865

Woodblock print of fishermen in boats among lotus flowers, with pavilions, pine trees and a bridge along the shore at sunset.

Lotus Pond at Shinobazu in Ueno

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1843

Hand-colored Japanese woodblock print of a flower vendor in red kimono with a lattice hat, carrying blossoms on a pole.

The Actor Hayakawa Hatsuse as a Flower Vendor

Okumura Toshinobu, mid-1720s

Japanese woodblock print of a uniformed man, a woman in a violet dress and feathered hat, and a child under cherry blossoms.

Blossoming Cherry Trees in Ueno Park (Ueno kōen kaika zu)

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1888

Woodblock print of a uniformed man in a plumed hat among five kimono-clad women, with peonies and cherry blossoms behind them

Emperor among Court Ladies

Toyohara Chikanobu, ca. 1880

Woodblock print of a covered bridge over a gorge with autumn maples, a stream, and a temple on a hill.

Tsuten-kyo Bridge, Tofuku Temple, Kyoto (Kyoto Tofukuji Tsutenkyo bashi) from the series “One Hundred Famous Views in…

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859

Woodblock print of three women and a girl in Western dress with a small dog beneath cherry blossoms, by Chikanobu, 1889.

Western Clothing from the series An Array of Auspicious Customs of Eastern Japan (Azuma fūzoku, fukuzukushi-Yōfuku)

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889

Japanese print of a man and woman under a plum tree, with a circular inset of a reader at a desk.

The Demon Gold (Konjiki yasha)

Mizuno Toshikata, ca. 1903

Woodblock print of a naval officer on a ship deck shading his eyes toward a smoking enemy ship amid rough seas.

Sakamoto Otasuku

Mizuno Toshikata, ca. 1894

Woodblock print of two lovers lying on bedding beside a painted folding screen with willow trees, in soft colors.

Lovers

Suzuki Harunobu, 1765

Woodblock print of a courtesan on a green balcony, with a laughing man in a red jacket dancing above holding an umbrella.

Shin Yoshiwara: The New Yoshiwara

Shōsai Ikkei, ca. 1875

Japanese woodblock triptych of three kabuki actors in colourful robes among bamboo, one wielding a long sword.

Näyttelijät Onoe Kikugoro III, Ichikawa Monnosuke ja Seki Sanjuro II näytelmässä Ise heishi ume no mitekura (Jumalill…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1820

Woodblock print of two women in a room with a latticed window, one sewing and one kneeling beside white folded cloth on the f

Evening Snow on the Nurioke, from the series Eight Parlor Views

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766

Japanese woodblock print of a caricatured Russian officer held by two Japanese soldiers, one with a rising sun flag.

Print from the series Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1904-5

Woodblock print of a caricatured officer in white uniform on a stone bridge, with camellias and Japanese text.

Farce of the Death at stone bridge from the series Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs (Nihon…

Kobayashi Kiyochika, October 1904

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of troops reviewed at a training ground, with Mount Fuji and a horse-drawn carriage proc

Review of Troops at the Aoyama Training Grounds

Utagawa Kunimasa V, February 1889

Woodblock print of two women with a falcon and potted eggplants, with Mount Fuji visible through a shoji screen window.

Lucky Dream for the New Year: Mt. Fuji, Falcon and Eggplants

Suzuki Harunobu, 1768

Woodblock print of a spotted deer calling out beside rocks and maple branches, with Japanese calligraphy above.

The Cry of the Stag

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1760