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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,015 works

Japanese triptych print of a harbor with steamships, sailing ships, a pier, and Western-dressed figures on the shore.

Illustration of a Large French Port Trading with Many Nations (Furansukoku oominato shokoku kōeki zu)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 4th month, 1866

Japanese triptych woodblock print of elephants attacked by tigers, with men on elephants and spearmen in grass.

Big Elephants Being Attacked

Isshinsai Yoshikata, 2nd month, 1863

Woodblock print of a couple embracing under a green mosquito net, with a sleeping figure inside and a pine-decorated screen b

Lovers Beneath a Mosquito Net

Suzuki Harunobu, 18th century

Woodblock print of a courtesan embracing a bearded foreign man in a black hat, framed by a pine branch and a red lacquer stan

Dutchman and Maruyama Courtesan

Chōkyōsai Eiri, 18th century

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue striped kimono holding a folding fan and hand mirror against a red patterned background.

Woman with a Folding Fan and Hand Mirror, from the series Sensuous Young Women of Contemporary Times

Utagawa Kunisada, 1838

Woodblock print of a leaping tiger above a boy in red and yellow robes beside a pine tree and waterfall.

Yang Xiang (Yō Kō), from the series A Child’s Mirror of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijūshi kō dōji kag…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1843

Woodblock print of figures strolling among irises near a tea house with lanterns, under a leaning pine, in blue tones.

View of Iris Gardens at Horikiri

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1861

Ink line-block proof of women with an umbrella on a riverbank beside boats and a sail, with a mountain in the distance.

Proof Line-Block Print for Fan

Utagawa Sadahide, 19th century

Ink drawing of two women on a hillside under pine trees overlooking rooftops and the Zenpukuji Temple in the distance.

Two Women Admiring the Sights from a Vantage Point Overlooking the Zenpukuji Temple

Utagawa Sadahide, 19th century

Three-panel black ink print of multi-masted foreign ships with rigging anchored in a harbor before a Japanese town.

Foreign Ships Offshore at Yokohama

Utagawa Sadahide, 19th century

Ink drawing of an armored samurai warrior holding a bow, with arrows, a sword, and a crescent banner behind him.

Preparatory Drawing for a Warrior Print

Utagawa Yoshitora, 19th century

Triptych woodblock print of a night street with blooming cherry trees, lanterns, carriages, and people in kimono.

Cherries at Night at New Shimabara

Utagawa Yoshitora, 19th century

Woodblock triptych of women bathing and dressing in a crowded Japanese public bath, with wooden tubs and hanging signs.

Interior of a Public Bath

Utagawa Yoshiiku, 19th century

Triptych print of a courtier in green robe on a moonlit beach with crescent moon, rocks, pine tree and calm sea.

Heian Period Courtier on a Moonlit Beach

Kobayashi Kiyochika, 19th century

Triptych woodblock print of a circus with horse riders, acrobats, clowns, tigers in a cage, and elephants on green ground.

Chiarini's Circus (Sekai daiichi charine daikyokuba)

Utagawa Masanobu, September 4, 1886

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono bracing against wind with cherry petals swirling around her.

Twenty-six Prints Constituting an Album (Azuma fūzoku fuku tsukushi) 東風俗福つくし

Toyohara Chikanobu, late 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono adjusting her hair, with an inset of porters and a red clock tower.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Dragon

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman with a parasol in windblown snow, beside a scroll and poem cards with calligraphy.

Selected Scenes from One Poem Each by One Hundred Poets: Poem by Emperor Kōkō

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print with a steamship in a harbor above and a kabuki actor with red face makeup and a woman below.

Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Inspired by Famous Pictures

Utagawa Kunisada, 1864

Woodblock print of a woman in patterned kimono with a blue hood, a child with a bird, and a plum garden inset.

Six Poetic Sages as Young Women at the Plum Garden at Kameido

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman with gold hairpins and a child with cards, a red clock tower and crowd at a window above.

Twelve Hours of Spring Pleasures: Hour of the Goat

Utagawa Kunisada, 19th century

Woodblock print of a seated woman in kimono beside a potted azalea, with a panel above showing a photographer and camera.

Twenty-Four Hours at Shinbashi/Yanagibashi: 12 Noon. (Shinyanagi nijūyo-ji, gozen jūni-ji)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1880

Japanese woodblock print of a samurai with a drawn sword and dragon tattoo against a dark night background.

Kurahashi Densuke Kiyohara Takeyuki

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 19th century

Woodblock print of a woman in a striped robe reading an open book at a table, with calligraphy above.

Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, January, 1878

Ink drawing of a mounted rider, seated figures and a bearded ascetic beneath trees, with a distant army on a hill.

Rama and Lakshmana Visit the Hermitage of an Ascetic

Nainsukh, ca. 1775-80

Woodblock print of a seated man with a fan beside a low table, and a reclining man spinning a large top with his feet.

Hayatake Torakichi from Osaka: Spinning Tops in Ryogoku

Utagawa Yoshiharu, 1857

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a red and green costume holding a yellow fan, with a red sun behind him.

Nakamura Utaemon III as Taira no Kiyomori

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1812

Two kabuki actor woodblock prints on checkered yellow ground; left in purple robe with crests, right raising a sword.

Kabuki Actors Asao Yūjirō as Sano Genzaemon and Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Miura Arajirō, in the play Keisei Sano no Funab…

Shunkōsai Hokushū, 1822

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in white face paint wearing a black robe with skeleton motifs over red kimono.

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Tōken (China Dog) Jūbei, in the play Benimurasaki ai de someage (Red and Purple, R…

Shunkōsai Hokushū, 1822

Woodblock print of two kabuki actors in patterned kimono beneath pink cherry blossoms, one holding a sword.

Bandō Mitsugorō III as Daihanji Kiyozumi and Arashi Koroku IV as Koganosuke

Shunkōsai Hokushū, 1821