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Japanese Prints

11,210 works

Japanese woodblock print of kabuki performers in patterned robes, a central dancer with fan, and musicians with drum and flut

Scene from the Drama "Lyric Dance of Shizuka Gozen (Taihei Shizuka Horaku no mai)"

Torii Kiyomasu I, c. 1711

Woodblock print of a white falcon perched on a rock beside chrysanthemums and banana leaves against a black background.

The White Falcon

Isoda Koryusai, 1780

Woodblock print of a woman in an orange kimono beside a sleeping child, a writing desk, and flowering plum branches.

Zhuangzi (Japanese: Soshi), from the series "Shunshoku ressenkyo"

Attributed to Teisai Hokuba, c. 1801/18

Woman in yellow kimono holding a tray beside a seated figure preparing herbs under pine branches, Japanese woodblock print.

Preparing Seven Herbs on the Seventh Day of the New Year

Kubo Shunman, 1798

Woodblock print of a turner at a lathe with an assistant in a kimono, with vertical calligraphy at left.

A turner and his assistant, from the series "Thirty-six Poets as Craftsmen (Shokunin sanjurokuban)"

Katsushika Hokusai, 1802

Woodblock print of a woman in kimono with a child and a cat, beside a potted plant and vertical calligraphy text.

Snake (Mi), from the series "Parody of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Mitate juni shi)"

Hotei Gosei, early 19th century

Japanese woody print of a woman seated at a low table beside flowers, a kettle, and lacquered boxes on shelves.

Blue Shell (Aogai), from the series "Five Colors (Goshiki no uchi)"

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, c. 1820

Woodblock print of a woman in kimono and a pipe-smoking attendant at a shrine gate with rope and streamers.

Woman and attendant at entrance gate of Enoshima

Totoya Hokkei, 1810s/1820s

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a kimono on a red balcony, with calligraphy and a floral border.

The Yang Guifei Cherry Tree (Yokihisakura), from the series "Cherry Trees for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika sakur…

Yashima Gakutei, c. 1821/22

Black woodcut print of oxen moving past women in headdresses beside a shrine, with hills in the background.

Wayside Shrine in Brittany, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Paul Gauguin, 1898/99

Black and white woodblock print of a pensive seated woman with her head in her hands, a pale dog and a dark animal nearby.

Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints

Paul Gauguin, 1898/99

Japanese triptych print of three women in kimono walking through falling snow, one holding a parasol, with snowy pines behind

Parody of Liu Bei (J: Gentoku) Visiting Zhuge Liang (J: Komei) in Wind and Snow (Gentoku fusetsu ni Komei o tazureru)

Utagawa Kunisada I, c. 1844

Woodblock print of three women fishing from a boat on choppy water, one standing in a pink checked kimono, two seated with ro

Fishing Excursion

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1799

Line drawing of a woman and children on a veranda, with a figure sweeping a landscape and geese flying overhead.

Min Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doj…

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1842

Black and white woodcut of a bull with angular, simplified forms and curved horns on a dark background.

The Bull

Franz Marc, 1912

Etching of a large tree over a landscape, with a robed figure, a group of people, a donkey, and a hilltop town in the distanc

Christ on the Morning of Palm Sunday

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1918

Japanese woodblock print of a figure in pink robes with a white horse beneath plum blossoms, and a seated woman beside a scre

The Harugoma Dance

Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68

Woodblock print of three women in kimono walking past dark-blue shops with white signboards along an Edo street.

Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hy…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858

Japanese woodblock print of a woman and attendant, with a tall box sign bearing calligraphy, in pink and yellow kimono.

A Woman Peddler of Needles and Thread

Hanegawa Chincho, c. 1730

Woodblock print of two women in kimono walking a riverbank as geese fly over a winding river, by Isoda Koryusai.

Geese Descending on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Prosperity in the Easte…

Isoda Koryusai, c. 1770/72

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a butterfly-patterned kimono holding an open painted scroll.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Soga no Goro Tokimune in the Play Kazoe Uta Ta Ue Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Thea…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1776

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned robe with a fan and sword, face painted red, against a lattice background.

Actor Sakata Hangorô III as Takechi Mitsuhide in “Muromacho Chronicle in Kana Script” (“Kanagaki Muromachi bundan”)

Katsukawa Shun'ei, About 1791

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in patterned kimono with plum branch, two swords and wooden clogs.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Matano no Goro in the Play Hana-zumo Genji Hiiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1775

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono holding two swords beneath a hanging curtain with a flower motif.

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Saito Sanemori in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Th…

Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1780

Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor in a patterned kimono holding a striped parasol and a black object.

The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as Lady Hotoke (Hotoke Gozen) in the Play Yukimots…

Katsukawa Shunkō I, c. 1785

Japanese woodblock print of a standing actor in a patterned kimono holding a red maple branch against striped background.

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunkō, About 1785

Woodblock print of a kneeling man in a patterned kimono raising a sword before a dark background and bamboo fence.

Actors Nakamura Nakazô I as Danshichi Kurobei and Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Issun Tokubei in “Mirror of Osaka in the Summ…

Katsukawa Shunkō, About 1779

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor in checkered robes with a sword and red box beside a torii gate and water spray.

The Actor Otani Hiroji III in an Unidentified Role

Ippitsusai Bunchō, c. 1770

Woodblock print of a standing courtesan in a red kimono with checkered sleeves, by Kikukawa Eizan, c. 1814.

Courtesan of the Chikiriya in Furuichi, Ise Province, from the series "Comparison of Proverbs and Customs (Tatoegusa…

Kikukawa Eizan, c. 1814

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a black kimono standing before a bamboo fence and blooming chrysanthemums.

Fashionable Beauties in a Chrysanthemum Garden (Furyu bijin kikubatake)

Kikukawa Eizan, c. 1810

Woodblock print of two women and two men viewing hanging votive paintings on a wooden gallery beside a pine tree.

Viewing votive paintings

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1800

Ukiyo-e print of two women with elaborate hairpins and striped and patterned kimono, by Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1801.

Tsukioka of the Hyogoya (Hyogoya uchi tsukioka), from the series "Seiro bijin meika awase"

Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1801