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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

16,136 works

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

Two men in kimono sit on a bench by a river at night, with boats, lanterns and a starry sky in a Japanese woodblock print.

“Enjoying the Evening Cool near Lord Nabeshima’s Warehouses” (Fūryū Nabeshima yūsuzumi)

Jukakudō Masakuni, ca. 1825

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with white face makeup and black kimono, holding a sword, inside a fan-shaped frame.

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as the Sword Master Kyōgoku Takumi, from the series Issei ichidai atari Kyōgen (Hit…

Shunkōsai Hokushū, 1825

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in black kimono and purple headband holding a red fan, framed by cherry blossoms.

Kabuki Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō II as Kajiwara Heiji, in the play Hiragana seisuiki (Records of the Battles between t…

Gigadō Ashiyuki, 1827

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with topknot in a patterned kimono, holding a red cup, within a blue circle.

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan Backstage (Nakamura Shikan rakuya no zu)

Juyōdō Toshikuni, 1826

Two kabuki actor portraits in woodblock print, framed by cherry blossoms and blue patterned borders, one holding an open fan.

Kabuki Actors Onoe Kikugorō III as Shizuka Gozen and Nakamura Utaemon III as Kitsune Tadanobu, in the play Yoshitsune…

Gyokuryūtei Shigeharu, 1830

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned costume beside a snowy waterfall with a blue bird on a rock.

Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi

Gigadō Ashiyuki, 1832

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a sword recoiling from a ghostly face with long hair on a torn lantern.

Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on a Broken Lantern, Referri…

Shunbaisai Hokuei, 1832

Woodblock print of a tattooed warrior with a bamboo staff beside a pine tree, with blue sky and snowy hills behind.

Three Heroes of the Water Margin Capture the Bandit Queen Ichijōsei, from the series One Hundred Eight Heroes of the…

Shunbaisai Hokuei, ca. 1835

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with an umbrella in rain, wearing a blue patterned kimono inside a circular frame.

Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Akogi Heiji, from the print series Tōsei keshōkagami (Makeup Mirrors of Our Time)

Shunbaisai Hokuei, 1835

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned grey kimono holding a fan, with calligraphy and red seals beside him.

The Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Wrestler Iwakawa Jirokichi

Shunbaisai Hokuei, 1837

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor as a pale ghostly woman in blue kimono with wisps of spirit against black.

Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugorō III as the Spirit of the Courtesan Yonakishii

Hasegawa Sadanobu, 1841

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with white face makeup, blue patterned kimono, and a sword hilt at his side.

Nakamura Shikan IV as the Fishmonger Aratota

Hasegawa Sadamasu, 1841

Woodblock print of a female performer in a patterned kimono and blue hakama, with blossoms in her hair and a text cartouche.

Yotsu of the Matsukiyo Brothel Performing as a Shirabyōshi, from the series Sacred Dances in Shinmachi

Gochōtei Sadahiro, 1841