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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Woodblock print of a seated woman holding a hand mirror, with shadows cast on a lattice shoji screen behind her.

Shadows on the Shoji

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of a long-haired woman playing with a laughing red-faced child wrapped in a patterned garment.

Yamauba Playing with Kintarō

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a wild-haired woman tying the topknot of a boy who sticks out his tongue.

Yamauba Tying Kintarō’s Topknot

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red and grey plum-patterned kimono with arms raised beside a black stage prop.

Portrait of Sanjō Kantarō in the Female Role of Yaoya Oshichi in the Play "Fuji no Takane" ("The High Peak of Mount F…

Torii Kiyomasu II, ca. 1730-40

Japanese woodblock print of a kneeling woman with gold hairpins beside a rolled paper, with a basket and maple branch above.

"Hanazuma of Hyōgoya, Kenbishi of Sakagami” from the series The Peers of Saké Likened to Select Denizens of Six House…

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1794

Woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a birdcage and screen, one holding a hand mirror, with calligraphy above.

Two Ladies

Suzuki Harunobu, 1764-72

Japanese woodblock print of two women, one holding a black lacquered mirror and one kneeling with a lacquer tray.

Two Ladies, Each with a Portion of a Lacquered Mirror

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woman in floral kimono tends a crawling baby while another woman gazes into a mirror beside a black vanity box.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1793

Woodblock print of a woman bending over a stone basin where a child sleeps, with a dog and leafy plants nearby.

Mother and Child

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Woodblock print of a woman poling a boat with a reclining bearded Daruma figure, reeds and water behind them.

Daruma in a Boat with an Attendant

Suzuki Harunobu, late 1760s

Ukiyo-e print of two women beside a black lacquer box, one holding a fan with a caricatured face.

Fan Vendor

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1797

Woodblock print of a woman before a mirror with two girls playing nearby, one blindfolded, in patterned kimono.

Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790s

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman tending a brazier while a standing man in a striped robe watches beside a screen.

The Seventh Hour of the Night

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

Japanese woodblock print of a bowing young man, two women beside a shoji screen, and a framed inset scene with a samurai.

A Young Man at the Side of a House

Kitagawa Utamaro

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with a net bag beside a kneeling child, with a samurai scene inset in the upper left.

A Woman Snatching a Bag of Sweetmeats from Her MotHer

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one playing a shamisen, with a parasol, a cat, and a mountain painting behind them.

Two Tori-oi, or Itinerant Women Musicians of the Eta Class

Kitagawa Utamaro

Woodblock print of two women on a riverbank with a parasol, staff, mountains, a pagoda and a waterfall behind them.

The Kōya no Tamagawa, Province of Kii

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Four women in kimono on a veranda overlooking a river and blossoming cherry trees, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Group of Women on the Engawa of a Country House, in the time of the Cherry Blossoming

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Woodblock print of three women in patterned kimono, a courtesan and two attendants, with elaborate yellow hairpins.

The Oiran Hanaogi of Ogiya attended by Two Shinzo and Her Kamuro Yoshino

Utamaro II, ca. 1806

Triptych print of courtesans and attendants strolling a lantern-lit street of shops in Yoshiwara, in patterned kimono.

Courtesans Promenading on the Nakanochō in Yoshiwara

Utagawa Toyokuni, ca. 1795

Two-panel woodblock print of women in kimono walking past pine trees and a stone lantern at a temple grounds.

Horinouchi Myo-ho-ji Eho Mairi no Zu

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1804

Woodblock print of women in kimono at a temple with a pine tree, red altar, and courtyard, split across two sheets.

Pilgrimage to Myōhōji in Horinouchi, Edo

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1804

Woman in patterned kimono tying a curtain beside a hanging chrysanthemum vase and a narcissus arrangement, Japanese woodblock

A Woman Tying up a Curtain, a Flower Arrangement of Chrysanthemums in a Boat-shaped Hanging Vase, and Narcissus Arran…

Utagawa Toyohiro, ca. 1805

Woodblock print of white suisen narcissus in a flat green dish on a red stand, with calligraphy at top right.

Flower Arrangement of Suisen (Narcissus) in a Flat Green Dish

Utagawa Toyohiro

Black and white woodblock print of an old man with a staff, a fox near a lantern, straw bundles and a crescent moon.

Trapping the Fox

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1808

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji behind clouds, with a rider on a white horse beside a pine tree and porters on a road.

The Top of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1800

Woodblock print of workers carving wooden ornaments by a river, with boats, a pine tree, and a lion sculpture.

Imadogawa

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1801-4

Woodblock print of a fisherwoman beside a large basket, with two boys and shellfish on the ground, plus calligraphy.

Fisherwoman with a Basket and Two Boys

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Figures in robes sit and stand around a low table on rocks, gazing at a moon above distant mountains in a Japanese print.

Nanamaro and His Followers Looking at the Moon in China

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Japanese print of men and women in layered court robes dancing, with vertical calligraphy and a folding fan at lower right.

Men and Women in Court Costume Dancing

Kubo Shunman, 19th century