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Ukiyo-e (Edo Period)

13,005 works

Woodblock print of Japanese sailors firing from a warship deck in smoke, with a Japanese flag and officer in uniform.

日清海戦之図

Yōsai Nobukazu, 1894

Japanese print of seated figures gathered on a red mat with cups and papers, with handwritten poem columns above.

Meeting of a Poetry Club

Fujii Teisa, c. 1860

Four-panel Japanese woodblock print of figures in historical dress, including a firewood carrier, a scholar, and a family gro

（二十四孝）かんの文てい,びんしけん,そうしん,しろ

Utagawa Sadahide

時代かゞみ享保之頃

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in costume with swords and staff, before pines, a castle, and a rising

The actors Seki Sanjūrō, Ichikawa Danjūrō, and Iwai Hanshirō

Utagawa Kunisada, 1818

Woodblock print of mounted samurai riding through marshland toward a fortified gate with lanterns and pine trees.

瓢軍談五十四場五十三保条直氏佐枝時家に着て降参を乞

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Triptych woodblock print of a night river festival with lantern-lit boats, fireworks over a bridge, and crowds of figures.

Flourishing fireworks at Ryōkoku Bridge Kawabiraki ("opening the river" ceremony) in the eastern capital

Utagawa Kunisada, 1858

Woodblock print of porters carrying palanquins up a steep mountain road past thatched houses, with teal cliffs and a poem.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a blue robe with floral roundels, holding a sword, with a red title cartouche.

青砥孫三郎・源藤太常景・源左衛門美玉笹

Utagawa Toyokuni

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a checked kimono holding a brush beside a writing box, with yellow chrysanthemums at u

Proper

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1839

Japanese woodblock print of a uniformed foreign officer beside a fur-clad seated man and a child, with cherry blossoms agains

南京於魯西亜

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1860

Japanese woodblock print of travelers in hats walking beside a moored boat with red banners and tall rigging at sunset.

東海道五十三次新井風景

Utagawa Yoshimori, 1863

Japanese woodblock print of the Seven Gods of Good Luck, with a fisherman holding a red fish above a crowd of robed deities a

The seven gods of good luck

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a wooden arched bridge beside a torii gate and pine trees, with mountains behind.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a standing courtesan in patterned kimono with wisteria blossoms above her head.

The courtesan Hanaōgi of the house of Ōgi

Chobunsai Eishi, 1794

Color print of three carved seal stones, one topped with a monkey figure, beside vertical Japanese calligraphy on cream paper

The Monkey Seal

Osa Toho, spring 1884

Woodblock print of armored samurai on horseback fighting in battle before a red and blue roofed gate with banners.

Battle between the Minamoto and the Taira at Taiken Gate

Utagawa Kunisada, 1817

Japanese print of plum blossoms and a folded almanac beside a column of handwritten Japanese verse, with a red seal.

Almanac

Matsui Toka, 1883

Japanese woodblock print of pine trees, thatched houses, and a loaded pack horse beside calm water and distant hills.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Two-panel woodblock print of kabuki actors: a man in a checked robe beside flames and a pine, and men in blue and striped kim

Actors in the roles of Oyone Magoshichi and Taheiji

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1848

Japanese woodblock print of two women and a seated man beside a painted screen with pine branches, interior scene.

House of Daifuku

Torii Kiyonaga, 1785

Japanese woodblock print of travelers and a horse on a riverbank, with boats crossing a river under pine trees.

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations o…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of Hamamatsu: travelers and horses on a road past inns, with a multi-tiered castle, pines, and sea beyond.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock diptych of samurai warriors and a demon, with a mounted warrior in patterned robes and a snarling figure with a swo

Raikō Shitennō (Minamoto Yorimitsu and his fellow warriors, ) and Kidōmaru

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1811

Japanese print with calligraphy columns and a gold cloud-shaped border holding flowering grasses and plants.

Clouds of Prince Genji

Shibata Zeshin, summer 1885

Woodblock print of a young woman in a patterned kimono reading a letter, with ornate hair combs.

Young lady reading a letter

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844

Woodblock print of a red bowl with gold characters, a black lacquer box with green cord, and white blossoms on blue cloth, be

The Cup of Long Life

Shibata Zeshin, spring 1883

Engraving of Saint George in armour with a halo, standing beside a slain dragon, with a lance and a distant town and boats.

De Heilige Joris staand naast de gedode draak

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Engraving of a haloed armored knight on horseback holding a banner, beside a slain dragon on the ground.

De Heilige Joris te paard naast de gedode draak

Albrecht Dürer, 1508

Print of an inkstone, brush rest and red and green silk cloths beneath columns of Japanese calligraphy, by Shibata Zeshin.

Layers of Kikaku Poetry

Shibata Zeshin, 8th month, 1885

Triptych Japanese print of elegant figures on a boat with Mount Fuji, a hawk and eggplants, by Utamaro, 1798.

First dream: Fuji, hawks, and eggplants

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798

Japanese print of a sailboat with a red sail showing landscape scenes, beside reeds, with columns of calligraphy filling the

Poetic Travel

Shibata Zeshin, 1st month, 1883