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Japanese Prints

11,210 works

Woodblock print of travelers wading a river beside a wooden bridge, with pine trees and a village in the distance.

Fujieda, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido wit…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono beside a yellow parasol, with hibiscus, bellflowers and chrysanthem

葛の葉狐市川團十郎

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1891

Woodblock print of Meiji-era officials in gold-braided uniforms and fur-trimmed hats, with a map and text panel behind them.

征韓論之図

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1877

Japanese woodblock print of two costumed figures, one grimacing and crouched, one standing, with a blue fan above.

ざしきげい茶番の当振三

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a woman with yellow flower hair ornaments and floral kimono, with a coastal seascape inset above.

山海愛度図会花をごらんあそばしたい

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852

Japanese woodblock sugoroku board showing Tokaido road stations with landscapes, bridges, boats and a central bridge scene.

新板東海道五十三次道中双六

Utagawa Yoshifuji, 1860

Japanese print with red lanterns bearing rabbit faces above columns of handwritten calligraphy on cream paper.

Egoyomi with Rabbits

Soshu, 1867

Japanese woodblock print of Ueno station with a steam train, brick buildings, rickshaws and pink blossoming trees.

上野ステイーシヨヲ繁栄ノ図

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1868

Japanese woodblock print grid of samurai battle scenes with horsemen, armor, a castle, and fire in colorful panels.

魁戦場出陣寿語録

Utagawa Yoshitora, 1866

Woodblock-style print of a boy in a purple kimono riding a toy horse, with Japanese calligraphy and red seals on paper.

Boy Riding a Toy Horse

Komatsubara Suiko, 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of Chinese officials in robes bowing on a ship deck beside uniformed Western naval officers.

威海衛陥落北洋艦隊提督丁汝昌降伏ノ図

Migita Toshihide

Woodblock print of men wading and carrying travelers across a river, with Mount Fuji and green hills in the distance.

Shimada, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido wit…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of Japanese soldiers charging at night with a rising sun flag, swords and rifles, through smoke and corn.

大日本ト清国ト両軍平城激戦之図

Utagawa Kokunimasa, 1894

Woodblock print of a woman in green kimono and a child by a windy river, with snowy mountains and floating paper.

山海名産尽近江の国源五郎鮒

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Colored woodblock print of porters and travelers crossing a sandy riverbank with rafts, pines and hills behind.

Kanaya, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a wooden railing, with red banners and calligraphy panels above.

同亢天のやあか・下谷すきや丁梅本小竹

Toyohara Kunichika, 1881

Triptych woodblock print of samurai battling across a river, with archers, arrows, red banners and distant mountains.

Battle at Kawanakajima

Katsukawa Shuntei, 1809

Woodblock print of soldiers in combat with swords as a large brown ox charges through a grassy battlefield.

鹿児嶋征討全記之内〔吉次越にて官軍牛に悩まされる図〕

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1877

Woodblock print of Japanese sailors firing from a warship deck in smoke, with a Japanese flag and officer in uniform.

日清海戦之図

Yōsai Nobukazu, 1894

Triptych woodblock print of a comic rosary procession with a giant octopus, demons, a mounted rider, and townspeople.

A comic Buddhist rosary procession

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1864

Japanese print of seated figures gathered on a red mat with cups and papers, with handwritten poem columns above.

Meeting of a Poetry Club

Fujii Teisa, c. 1860

Four-panel Japanese woodblock print of figures in historical dress, including a firewood carrier, a scholar, and a family gro

（二十四孝）かんの文てい,びんしけん,そうしん,しろ

Utagawa Sadahide

時代かゞみ享保之頃

Toyohara Chikanobu, 1897

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actors in costume with swords and staff, before pines, a castle, and a rising

The actors Seki Sanjūrō, Ichikawa Danjūrō, and Iwai Hanshirō

Utagawa Kunisada, 1818

Woodblock print of mounted samurai riding through marshland toward a fortified gate with lanterns and pine trees.

瓢軍談五十四場五十三保条直氏佐枝時家に着て降参を乞

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

Triptych woodblock print of a night river festival with lantern-lit boats, fireworks over a bridge, and crowds of figures.

Flourishing fireworks at Ryōkoku Bridge Kawabiraki ("opening the river" ceremony) in the eastern capital

Utagawa Kunisada, 1858

Woodblock print of porters carrying palanquins up a steep mountain road past thatched houses, with teal cliffs and a poem.

Nissaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido wit…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a blue robe with floral roundels, holding a sword, with a red title cartouche.

青砥孫三郎・源藤太常景・源左衛門美玉笹

Utagawa Toyokuni

Japanese woodblock print of a uniformed foreign officer beside a fur-clad seated man and a child, with cherry blossoms agains

南京於魯西亜

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1860

Japanese woodblock print of travelers in hats walking beside a moored boat with red banners and tall rigging at sunset.

東海道五十三次新井風景

Utagawa Yoshimori, 1863

Japanese woodblock print of the Seven Gods of Good Luck, with a fisherman holding a red fish above a crowd of robed deities a

The seven gods of good luck

Utagawa Kunisada, 1830

Vertical Japanese woodblock-style print of a woman with a bamboo flute beneath a drooping willow tree.

Komusō

Isoda Koryusai, 1772