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Ukiyo-e (Edo Period)

12,785 works

Hand-colored lithograph of many small caricatured figures in top hats and period dress, with horses and a dog, titled Une Mac

Macedoine

Paul Gavarni, 1824

Small fan-shaped painting of a seated man with a fan, a white bowl, and butterflies above him.

A man with a fan, butterflies, and a bowl of water

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock print of a snowy street with bamboo, flying sparrows, pedestrians with umbrellas, and a blue canal.

Atagoshita in Winter

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Japanese woodblock triptych of kimono-clad women and men walking past stone lanterns and a pine tree at a temple.

Visiting a temple dedicated to Fudo

Katsukawa Shuncho, c. 1780/1801

Ink sketch of a man sleeping face-down on tan paper, one arm stretched forward and his robe loosely draped.

Sleeping Man

Katsushika Hokusai

Triptych print of women in kimono on a veranda and among irises in a garden with pine and green hills.

Iris Garden

Katsukawa Shuncho, c. 1781/89

Ink painting of a dragon with clawed feet curling through dark swirling clouds, with calligraphy and a red seal at lower left

Dragon and clouds

Katsushika Hokusai

Triptych Japanese print of women in kimono viewing hanging scroll paintings in an interior with a landscape beyond.

Women Viewing Scroll Paintings of the Gods of Good Fortune

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1790

Triptych print of women in kimono viewing a dragon and tiger in a garden, with fans, blossoms and a child nearby.

Women viewing dragon and tiger made of tobacco pouches

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1795

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors by a river, one with a parasol and drawn sword, under cherry blossoms.

Näyttelijät Ichikawa Danjuro VIII ja Ichikawa Kodanji IV näytelmässä Kagamiyama kokyo no nishikie (Vanha värikuva Kag…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1853

Hanging scroll with a fan-shaped painting of a flying cuckoo beside columns of black ink calligraphy.

Flying Cuckoo

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Goose

Katsushika Hokusai

Triptych Japanese woodblock print of elegant women in kimono near a palanquin, on stairs, and entering a veranda with pines.

Fuji no uraba, from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)"

Chobunsai Eishi, c. 1789/94

Japanese triptych print of three courtesans in patterned kimono beside a large phoenix and red feathers.

The Courtesans of the Chojiya on Display in the Daytime (Chojiya hirumise)

Chokosai Eisho, c. 1796/98

Back view of a man in a blue robe and yellow trousers holding a cloth and carrying a broom at his waist.

Man with broom and cloth

Katsushika Hokusai

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women on a veranda drying clothes, with infants, a cat, and Mount Fuji in the distanc

Drying Clothes (Monohoshi)

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1790

Triptych Japanese print of women and men in kimono relaxing in a garden under a pine tree and on a veranda.

Enjoying the Cool in a Garden

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1788/90

Hanging scroll of a long scaled dragon descending through dark clouds, mounted in gold-flecked silk brocade.

Descending dragon

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink painting on a hanging scroll of a standing figure in a grey robe and patterned kimono, holding a pink fan.

Young man

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink line drawing of a seated woman in a kimono holding a cat against her shoulder, on pale paper.

Lady Holding a Cat

Katsushika Hokusai, 1810

Hanging scroll of a seated courtier in a green patterned robe and black hat, with a red sword hilt, on a pale ground.

Six Immortals of Poetry: Fun'ya no Yasuhide

Katsushika Hokusai, 1800

Hanging scroll of a standing courtesan in a black blossom-patterned kimono with a red sash, head bowed.

Courtesan

Katsushika Hokusai

Ink line drawing of a standing man in layered Japanese robes and trousers, with a topknot, on tan textured paper.

Standing figure of a man

Katsushika Hokusai

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Fishmonger Gorobei from the play A Medley of Tales of Revenge

Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

Woodblock print of two women and a child in an interior with a brazier, screen, and vertical calligraphy text.

Kaksi naista ja lapsi interiöörissä. Fuzoku-ga

Suzuki Harunobu, 1750

Ink and color sketch of a seated man in a green robe painting characters on a pink panel beside an inkstone.

The Calligrapher

Katsushika Hokusai

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women at a seaside outing, with fishermen hauling a net and boats on the waves.

A seaside outing

Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1801/04

Triptych woodblock print of women washing and beating cloth beside a stream under a tree, by Utagawa Toyokuni I.

Washing Cloth in a Stream

Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1797

Triptych Japanese print of women drawing water at a well under a tree, with a woman on a veranda behind a blind.

The Seventh Month, from the series The Twelve Months by Two Artists (Ryoga juni ko)

Utagawa Toyohiro, n.d.

Hanging scroll of two women in an interior, one kneeling and writing, with a blossoming tree screen and calligraphy above.

Interior: a courtesan writing; another looking on

Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock triptych of a boat with umbrella-carrying passengers on a misty river, snowy trees and houses along the bank.

Second Month: Matsuchi Hill in Snow at Dusk (Kisaragi, Matsuchiyama yuki no tasogare), from the series "True Views of…

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1896

The Lion Dance

Katsushika Hokusai