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Japanese Prints

11,210 works

Woodblock print of a seated samurai in blue robes surrounded by glowing skeleton warriors wielding swords and bows at night.

Ōya tarō mitsukuni

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1865

Woodblock print of women in kimono and a man with a sword under cherry blossoms, with a temple in the background.

Cherry blossom viewing at Ueno

Katsukawa Shunzan, 1781

Print of a seated woman seen from behind writing RICHARD WAGNER on a panel beside a leafy plant.

Immortality

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1886

Woodblock print of sailboats near a hilly shore at dusk, with a calm sea stretching to a pale horizon.

Evening sailboats

Ohara Koson, 1900

Woodblock print of two fishermen on rocks hauling lines, with breaking waves and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Kōshū kajikazawa

Katsushika Hokusai, 1900

Woodblock print of a red arched bridge over a river in rain, framed by dark trees and green foliage.

Rain over sacred bridge (shinkyō)

Uehara Konen, 1900

Woodblock print of a red five-storied pagoda and blue torii gate framed by tall cedar trees in green foliage.

Five-storied pagoda at Nikko

Uehara Konen, 1900

Etching of a cloaked man with raised arm and windblown hair on a dark hillside under a night sky.

Tristan and Isolde, Act II: Signal in the Night

Henri Fantin-Latour, c. 1886

Japanese woodblock print of travelers and porters with a palanquin, with the title Shimada in the upper right corner.

Shimada

Katsushika Hokusai, 1804

Woodblock print of a torii gate in snow with snow-covered pine branches, a bridge, and distant trees under a grey sky.

Mimeguri Shrine in snow

Uehara Konen, 1900

Woodblock print of travelers and moored boats beside a red torii gate on a blue sea, with a poem in the sky.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Lithograph of a pale veiled woman rising with raised arm beside a cloaked figure with a plumed hat in a dark setting.

Siegfried: Act III, Evocation of Erda

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1886

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono with a round fan, seated on a veranda with feet in water.

Evening cool

Otake Kokkan, 1900

Blue woodblock print of two sailboats on calm water with snow-capped Mount Fuji and pine trees behind them.

Sailboats and Mount Fuji

Uehara Konen, 1900

Monochrome woodblock print of travelers walking along hillside paths past thatched houses and pine trees.

Emon Hill, from the series "The Appearance of Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no tei)"

Hishikawa Moronobu, c. 1681/84

Teal woodblock print of large ocean waves curling and breaking into white foam under a pale sky.

Ocean waves

Uehara Konen, 1900

Woodblock print of a snipe bird standing on one leg among slender reeds beside a misty pool.

Snipe bird in reeds

Ohara Koson, 1900

Woodblock print of sailboats moored at night under a full moon, with bare trees and red-roofed houses on the shore.

Sailboats moored under the moon

Uehara Konen, 1900

Black-and-white Japanese print of samurai and women in a Yoshiwara street scene with wooden buckets and a fence.

Scene in the Yoshiwara, from the series "Views of Yoshiwara"

Hishikawa Moronobu, About 1680

Woodblock print of two snow-covered ferryboats moored by reeds on a river, with thatched houses and bare trees under falling

Ferryboats in snow

Uehara Konen, 1900

Japanese woodblock print of a busy post station with teahouse, travelers, braziers and a calligraphy poem.

Kuwana: The Post Station at Tomita (Kuwana, Tomita tachiba no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokai…

Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837/42

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one painting a willow screen, beside an inkstone and lacquer box in a tatami room.

Courtesan Painting a Screen, from a series of 12 erotic prints

Torii Kiyonobu I, c. 1711

Ukiyo-e print of a woman with a shamisen riding a mythical beast above a boat, watched by a monk beside a blossoming tree.

A Floating World Version of Saigyo at the Village of Eguchi (Ukiyo Saigyo Eguchi no sato)

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1715

Ink line drawing of a kneeling woman in a kimono beside columns of Japanese calligraphy and a seal stamp.

Happy Ending

Okumura Masanobu, c. 1715

Woodblock print of a temple beside waterfall and steep green mountains, with small figures on a path below.

Nihon Temple on Mount Yokogiri at Bōshū

Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1859

Woodblock print of a thatched tea house with red lanterns in a green field, framed by trees under a pink sky.

Tea house

Uehara Konen, 1900

Three women in patterned kimono stand before a lattice screen with calligraphy, Japanese woodblock print, c. 1729.

Beauties of the Three Capitals: Edo (right), Kyoto (center), and Osaka (left)

Attibuted to Torii Kiyomasu II, c. 1729

Small colored sketch of a seated woman in a dark kimono beside a green shrub, wooden fence and pink flower.

Oiran zu

Katsushika Hokusai, 1900

Ukiyo-e print of travelers with a black horse crossing diagonal fields lined with pines, with calligraphy in the upper right.

A parody of Narihira's eastern journey

Torii Kiyomitsu I, c. 1764

Woodblock-style print of a small red-capped bird perched on a stem beside a white lily with green leaves.

Small bird on lily plant

Baison, 1890

Japanese woodblock triptych of women in patterned kimono walking past willows, a torii gate and a tea house, by Torii Kiyohir

Girls of Fukagawa - A Triptych (Fukagawa musume sanpukutsui)

Torii Kiyohiro, c. 1755

Black crow with open beak perched on a snowy branch with icicles hanging below, on a tan background.

Blackbird in snow

Ikeda Koson, 1880