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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with a long unrolled letter, an attendant below, and a man on a red balcony.

The Love Letter

Torii Kiyonaga, late 18th century

Woodblock print of a steamship with smoke and sailing boats near a dark mountain, with a mounted warrior on a grassy hill.

Fifty-three Stations of Suehiro: Warrior Looks at Passing Steamship

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1865

Woodblock print of travelers beside willow trees and a river, with snow-capped Mount Fuji rising behind distant hills.

Goyu

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

Woodblock print of a Yokohama drawing room with Western and Japanese figures, a musical instrument, and ships visible through

Drawing Room of a Foreign Business Establishment in Yokohama

Utagawa Sadahide, 9th month, 1861

Woodblock print of two women on a veranda beside a vine-covered screen, with fishermen and a winding river beyond.

The Rustic Pavilion

Isoda Koryusai, ca. 1770

Japanese woodblock print of two women reading a letter together, one holding a broom, in a tall vertical format.

The Idle Broom

Torii Kiyonaga, ca. 1780

Woodblock print of a woman with a basket and two children watching geese fly over autumn rice fields and mountains.

Rustic Scene

Chōkyōsai Eiri, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle and gold hairpins, holding a brush and writing a letter.

Portrait of Toyozumi of Chojiya House, Writing a Letter

Woodblock print of two women in kimono in an interior, with a moonlit landscape roundel in the upper left.

Gonpachi ni Komurasaki no Toko no Tsuki

Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono with feathered cloak and fan, with calligraphy in upper right.

Konami of Kurahashi-ya

Yanagawa Shigenobu, ca. 1825

Woodblock print of a woman combing another seated figure's hair beside a shamisen, on a wooden veranda with a cabinet.

Combing His Hair

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Woodblock print of two women in kimono on a shore, one reaching toward a crab, with a river village behind them.

The Clinging Crab

Suzuki Harunobu, 1770

Woodblock print of two sumo wrestlers embracing, seen from behind, with fringed belts and bare feet on a pale ground.

Two Famous Wrestlers Onogawa and Tanikase

Katsukawa Shun'ei, ca. 1795

Woodblock print of three children building a snowman beneath a snow-covered plum tree with red blossoms.

Three Boys Making a Snowman

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1767-68

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman by a brazier and a standing man at a fence, with a maple branch above.

Warming the Sake by Maple Leaf Fire

Suzuki Harunobu

Woodblock print of a man with umbrella below a lattice balcony where a woman reads a letter, with Japanese calligraphy above.

The Lovers O-Hatsu and Tokubei

Ippitsusai Bunchō, ca. 1770

Woodblock print of a muscular kabuki actor in wrestler costume with a maple-leaf robe and sword, c. 1770.

Actor Sakata Hongoro II as a Wrestler in a Play

Ippitsusai Bunchō, ca. 1770

Woodblock print of a tall waterfall in a rocky gorge, with three figures crouching on a ledge beside pine trees.

Kegon Waterfall

Woodblock print of a woman fishing from a riverbank while a standing man with a sword watches beneath drooping willow branche

Kyo Shi

Isoda Koryusai, ca. 1765

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji behind pine trees, rice fields and travelers with a pack horse on a road.

Yoshiwara

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a shallow river on boats and by wading, with Mount Fuji in the distance.

Shimada; Oigawa Shun-Gan, Banks of the Oi River

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Woodblock print of porters carrying boxes along a mountain pass beside thatched houses and green cliffs, with calligraphy abo

Nissaka; Sayo no Naka Yama, pass in the Bayo Mountains

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Woodblock print of porters carrying loads over a wooden bridge beside a weeping willow and thatched houses.

Goyu

Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1838

Pen drawing of a standing kabuki-style figure in white robes beside a fan-shaped portrait cartouche with Japanese text.

Drawing Intended as Design for an Actor Print

Utagawa Kunisada, 1833-47

Woodblock print of a figure in a floral kimono beside a stylized pine branch, with a Japanese inscription.

A Famous Actor of Women's Roles

Kitao Shigemasa, ca. 1764

Diptych woodblock print of two figures in kimono before Mount Fuji, one holding a walking stick, the other in a flat straw ha

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Tall Woman in a Flat Straw Hat

Katsukawa Shunshō, ca. 1778

Woodblock print of a bearded man in a blue hat riding a reddish horse, with a pink Japanese text scroll at upper left.

An American on Horseback

Utagawa Yoshitora, ca. 1861

Woodblock print of a naval officer and nurse beside a patient's bed in a hospital room with a window.

The Torpedo Officer (Suirai shikan), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 1, no. 8

Kajita Hanko, ca. 1900

Woman in a feathered hat and maroon jacket beside a street lamp, with a silhouetted man walking along a misty shoreline.

Print - Tsuneshige, 1900

Tsuneshige, ca. 1900

Woodblock print of a procession on a hillside with Western men and a woman in red, Japanese attendants, pines, and yellow-roo

Hodogaya

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 1865