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24,211 works

Japanese woodblock print of three women in kimono, a child with lanterns, a dog, and a boy peeking from a sign.

Enjoying the Evening Cool in Hirokoji (Hirokoji no ryosho), from the series "Eight Contemporary Views of Ryogoku (Tos…

Santō Kyōden, late 18th/early 19th century

Woodblock print of three women in kimono with a small dog, one holding a round fan, dated late 1780s.

Flowers of Yamashita (Yamashita hana), from the series "Contest of Contemporary Beauties (Tosei bijin iro kurabe)"

Santō Kyōden, late 1780s

Hand-colored engraving of roses, blue and yellow blossoms, and green leaves in a blue vase on a stone ledge.

Vase of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 1660

Woodblock print of women in kimono and a man gathering flowers in a grassy field, with butterflies overhead.

Gathering spring flowers

Kubo Shunman, c. 1789

Japanese print of two women with water buckets on a shore beneath a red maple tree, with a sea horizon at left.

Matsukaze and Murasame

Kubo Shunman, c. 1810

Japanese print of a woman carrying a kettle and food box past rice planters bent over paddies under a pine tree.

Taking Food to Rice Planters

Kubo Shunman, late 18th/early 19th century

Japanese print of three travelers pausing at a stream beside yellow flowering shrubs, with a kneeling attendant and sandals.

The Ide Jewel River

Kubo Shunman, c. 1781/89

Hand-colored engraving of a spiny African aloe plant in a blue ornate urn, numbered plate 47.

African Aloe, plate 47 from Phtanthoza Iconographia

Published by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, 1736

Japanese woodblock print of two women and a child by a fence, with men reading on a veranda above under a pine tree.

Returning from a Poetry Gathering

Kubo Shunman, c. 1785/89

Ukiyo-e print of three women in patterned kimono with a child, beside a lantern, irises and small white spirit figures.

Good and Evil Influences (Zendama akudama)

Eishosai Choki, c. 1795

Japanese woodblock print of four women in kimono walking beneath cherry blossoms against a yellow background.

The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chojiya and Her Attendants

Eishosai Choki, early 1790s

Woodblock print of two women with upswept hair and gold ornaments in patterned kimono, facing each other against grey.

Kan, a waitress of the Izutsuya, and the geisha Fuseya of the Ogiya

Eishosai Choki, c. 1794

Muted watercolor of a flat shoreline with silhouetted factory chimneys on the left, small boats on the horizon, and a heavy c

Southampton Water

Attributed to James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Osumi, a Tayu of the Tsuchiya in the Shinmachi Quarter in Osaka

Eishosai Choki, c. 1796/97

Woodblock print of a woman washing her hair beside a wooden tub, with a bamboo screen and attendant behind her.

Mirror of Elegance (Furyu kesho kagami)

Tamagawa Shūchō, c. 1795

Pen and wash drawing of Hercules raising a club while struggling with a three-headed dog in a rocky landscape.

Hercules

Richard van Orley, n.d.

Watercolor of a striped kudu antelope with spiral horns walking across grass, with blue mountains behind it.

A Kudu

the younger Nicolas Huet, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with a fan painted with a white rabbit, and a scroll with a rooster in the corner.

An Elegant Series of Amulet Paintings (Furyu nanatsume e awase): Rabbit and Cock

Tamagawa Shūchō, c. 1797

Woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono holding a parasol beneath blossoming cherry branches.

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Shizuka Gozen (?)

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1767

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono holding a sword beside bamboo, with a screen behind him.

The Actor Bando Hikosaburo III as Kichisaburo in the play "Junshoku Edo Murasaki," performed at the Ichimura Theater…

Torii Kiyonaga, 1779

Japanese woodblock print of a seated older man in patterned robes holding a pipe, with bonsai trees in pots before a lattice

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sansho Dayu (?)

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1780

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in patterned kimono beside chrysanthemum plants, by Torii Kiyonaga, 177

Bando Mitsugoro II as Tennen no Mansaku-kitsune and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Nikaido Shinanonosuke and Iwai Hanshiro…

Torii Kiyonaga, 1778

Woodblock print of two women in kimono in an autumn garden, with geese flying overhead and a flowering shrub nearby.

Geese Descending in Mid Autumn (Seishu no rakugan), from the series "Eight Scenes of the Four Seasons (Shiki hakkei)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779

Woodblock print of three women in kimono in a interior setting, one arranging flowers beside a kettle, one standing with a ha

Morning of Iris, from the series "Five Festivals in the Pleasure Quarters (Hanakuruwa gosechi no asobi)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779

Woodblock print of women in kimono and children playing with a rope under falling grass blades, yellow ground.

The Fifth Month (Satsuki), from the series "Fashionable Twelve Seasons (Furyu juni kiko)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1779

Japanese woodblock print of travelers by a pine tree, with a palanquin, a woman with a parasol, and a man smoking a pipe.

Yumoto, from the series "Seven Famous Hot Springs of Hakone (Hakone shichito meisho)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1780

Japanese woodblock print of three women in a wooden room, one lifting a bamboo blind, with a flowering plant and fence outsid

Discovering the Address of a Husband's Lover, from the series "A Collection of Humorous Poems (Haifu yanagidaru)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1790

Woodblock print of two ducks on a muddy bank with grey lotus pods and leaves in misty water behind them.

A pair of ducks by a lotus pond

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1879

Woodblock print of a woman in a straw hat beside a kneeling porter, with pine trees and Mount Fuji behind them.

Totsuka, from the series "Mount Fuji in the Four Seasons (Shiki no Fuji)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1785

Woodblock print of a man with a sword and two women in kimono beside a shrine rope and pine branches.

A visit to a shrine, from the series "Twelve Scenes of Popular Customs (Fuzoku juni tsui)"

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1786