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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Japanese woodblock print of a dancing woman in a patterned kimono, wearing a headdress and carrying a sword.

Dancing Girl Wearing a Sword

Woodblock print of a butterfly dance costume with patterned wings, red cloth, a rooster and a beaded headdress, with calligra

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2: Costume for the Butterfly Dance (Kochō no mai)

Kubo Shunman, 1810s

Japanese woodblock print of a young woman in a maple-patterned kimono holding a turquoise box, with calligraphy above.

Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2: Young Woman with a Birdcage

Ryūgetsusai Shinkō, 1810s

Woodblock print of a patterned porcelain bowl with plum blossom branches and vertical Japanese calligraphy above.

Porcelain Bowl with Whitebait (Shitasu) and Plum Blossoms

Kubo Shunman, 1810s

Woodblock print of a brown goldfish inside a round glass bottle, with pink flowers and green leaves at lower left.

Gold-Fish in a Glass Bottle

Totoya Hokkei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a nine-tailed fox inside a dark circle, with a red ribbon looping below and Japanese calligraphy above.

Mirror With the Design of a Nine-Tailed Fox

Harukawa Goshichi

Woodblock print of a courtesan in a patterned kimono holding a plum-blossom fan, with calligraphy beside her.

Courtesan Usugumo

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a kneeling woman in a patterned kimono holding a large yellow fan, with Japanese calligraphy beside her.

Lady Komachi

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Japanese print of a court woman in patterned robes holding a large fan, with a poem panel at upper left.

Princess Fujitsubo in Court Costume with a Fan

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a patterned kimono releasing a bird from a cage, with calligraphy beside her.

Lady Murasaki Sets a Bird Free from a Cage

Yashima Gakutei, 19th century

Japanese print of arching rice stalks with grain heads and a pale chrysanthemum-like flower, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Rice Plant and Butter-Burs

Kubo Shunman, 19th century

Woodblock print of cherry blossom trees below pavilions and pines, with strolling figures and a blue pond.

Sendagi Dangozaka

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856

Woodblock print of weeping willows, a wooden watchtower, and hanging blue cloth banners over a grassy yard at dusk.

The First Race Course, Horse-Dealer's Street

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Japanese print of a standing samurai beside a plum branch, with two seated women and a child at a writing table.

Street Scene in the Springtime

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, 19th century

Woodblock print of a hanging scroll with plum blossoms and calligraphy, resting on brocade beside a wooden box.

Kakemono and Its Box

Kubo Shunman, 18th-19th century

Japanese woodblock print of white and red peonies, a purple iris and green leaves, with vertical calligraphy at upper left.

Peonies and Iris

Yanagawa Shigemasa, 18th-19th century

Woodblock print of a white rat resting on patterned cloth beside bundled paper strips and a green fabric, with calligraphy.

White Rat and Bundles of Cloth

Kubo Shunman, probably 1816

Ink drawing of a plum branch with round blossoms, accompanied by Japanese calligraphy and a red seal on pale paper.

Plum Blossoms

Yomo no Utagaki Magao

Woodblock print of a moonlit veranda overlooking a bay with sailboats, a lantern, and a pine tree.

Moon-Viewing Location (Tsuki no Misaki), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo Hyakkei)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Japanese woodblock print of Mount Fuji seen across a bay with sailboats, pine trees on a rocky shore, and a red dusk sky.

The Sea at Miura in Sagami Province (Sōshū Miura no kaijō), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjū)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Woodblock print of a Noh mask, lacquered box, folding fan and braided cord on cloth, with handwritten calligraphy above.

Mask and Other Objects for the Noh Dance

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

Woodblock print of a pine-lined sandbar across a moonlit bay with sailboats, birds and distant mountains.

Tango Amano Hashidate

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859-61

Woodblock print of a woman pouring tea for a seated man, with calligraphy and a pine decoration above.

Woman Entertaining Her Guest with New Year Wine

Japanese woodblock print of a potted pine, a wooden box of labeled herbs, a red-corded drum, and calligraphy.

Potted Pine Tree Drum and Seven Herbs Planted in a Box

Sunayama Gosei, 18th-19th century

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 full moon over Ishiyama cliffs, a red temple hall, pines, a river and a wooden bridge at night.

The Autumn Moon on Ishiyama

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Woodblock print of a snowy village street with thatched houses, travelers in straw hats, and a large tree under falling snow.

Fujikawa; Sanchu Yamanaka no Sato Miyajiyama

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

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 river landscape with boats, pine trees, a thatched teahouse, travelers and distant mountains.

Mitsuke

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855