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Ukiyo-e (Edo Period)

13,003 works

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a striped kimono holding a sword, with a hexagon-patterned backdrop and calligraphy cart

〔茨木明治１６年４月上演新富座〕

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1883

Woodblock print of a court lady reading a letter by a silk curtain, with attendants, a garden stream and a painted screen.

夢浮橋

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of snowy rooftops along a canal with Mount Fuji rising in the distance under a pink sky.

Sukiya Bridge in the eastern capital

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a village road with thatched houses, blue banners, plum trees and a green mountain behind.

石部

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Woodblock print of a courtier in blue robe with a fan on a veranda, gazing at a full moon beside a poem cartouche.

月百姿かしかまし野もせにすたく虫の音よ我たになかくものをこそおもへ

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890

Japanese print of plum blossoms on a branch beside a biwa lute, with handwritten calligraphy in a column on the left.

Plums and Biwa

Tanomura Shosai, 1860s

Color woodblock print of Japanese soldiers charging up a hillside, an officer on horseback raising a sword under a rising sun

日本大勝利成歓ノ戦ニ清兵ヲ破

Yōsai Nobukazu, 1894

Woodblock print of a wooden bridge over a river with boats, pine trees on a hill, and Mount Fuji under a red sky.

Ochanomizu in the eastern capitol

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a floral kimono holding a baby, with a night bridge and fireworks scene inset above.

東都名所両国橋之涼

Woodblock print of a crowded Edo-period street with pedestrians, a palanquin, willow trees, and wooden buildings.

Fuchu: View of the Licensed Quarter in Nichomachi (Fuchu, Nichomachi kuruwa no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stat…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of Ryōgoku Bridge over a river with Mount Fuji, boats, rowers, and two women in kimono under willow branches.

Ryōgoku in the eastern capital

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a checkered robe, with a smaller inset portrait and calligraphy above.

市村家橘

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1862

Woodblock print of autumn maples on a hill above fields and a river, with Mount Fuji rising in the distance at sunset.

Sunset Hill, Meguro in the eastern capitol

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a chrysanthemum-patterned kimono holding a fan beside yellow flowering branches.

おそめ瀬川路孝

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a night market with red lanterns, a full moon, and two figures on a balcony above a crowd.

浅草年之市

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of armored samurai wading through a castle moat toward a gate, with a samurai in red and green at the entranc

瓢軍談五十四場十二ひゃうたんの相図に寄手水門より討入稲葉山落城

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji behind green hills and pine trees, with white-sailed boats on a bay.

Noge, Yokohama in Musashi Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a samurai with drawn sword confronting a seated man, with calligraphy panel and round vignette ab

誠忠義臣名々鏡ま早野和助常成

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Woodblock print of a seated man by moonlit reeds with two armored warriors watching from the left under a full moon.

月百姿淮水月伍子胥

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji over a bay, with a yellow-sailed boat in the foreground and a pine tree at right.

Honmoku no hana in Musashi Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Multi-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in varied costumes arranged in framed portrait cartouches.

〔役者似顔絵双六〕

Toyohara Kunichika, 1868

Woodblock print of travelers at a roadside teahouse with a pack horse, stone wall and tree, colorful Edo-period style.

Mariko, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Japanese woodblock print of a blue bay with many sailing ships, hillside houses and pine trees on the cliffs.

東海道神奈川台并かるい沢ヨリ横浜海岸町同本町横浜木村を見渡其海面数万の大船を見る図ナリ

Utagawa Sadahide

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji seen across a bay, with fishing boats, pine trees on rocky shore, and a red sky.

Sea at Miura in Sōshū Province

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in striped kimono applying makeup from a box, on a red and purple floral backgroun

〔御存白石噺明治１３年１月上演新冨座〕

Yōshū Chikashige, 1880

Woodblock print of two women in a room with a potted pine and a screen showing flowering branches and a bird.

本銀丁福屋マンキチ・本石丁升や小美代

Toyohara Kunichika, 1881

Woodblock print of a woman at a wooden screen and a man in a plaid robe holding a child, with a poem cartouche above.

十郎兵衛・おゆミ

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of two women punting a boat under a blossoming cherry tree above blue waves.

風流六花撰ノ内

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of travelers on a coastal path past green hills, pine trees and the sea beyond.

白須賀

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Japanese woodblock print of a man with a flowering branch and scroll, with columns of handwritten text on the left.

Man Holding Cherry Blossom Branch and Love Letter

Tanaka Shûtei, 1854

Woodblock print of two women in kimono walking beneath a blossoming cherry tree, one pointing ahead.

四季の詠隅田堤のさくら

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1894

Woodblock print of a seated samurai with sword beside a morning glory scroll and calligraphy, with shadow figures on the wall

源氏雲浮世絵合朝顔

Utagawa Kuniyoshi