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Japanese Prints

11,071 works

Japanese woodblock print of crowded Nihonbashi bridge and market with Mount Fuji rising in the distance.

Nihonbashi

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, early 19th century

Japanese print of writing tools, inkstone, seal stones and ink box with a potted flower and handwritten verse above.

Writing Implements and Seals

Kubo Shunman, 1799 or 1811

Japanese print of travelers with a palanquin on a shore, with Enoshima island and sea behind them and poems above.

Visitors to Enoshima, from the album "Mountains of the Four Quarters (Yomo no yama)"

Kubo Shunman, early 19th century

Japanese print of a long-haired yamauba beside a waterfall watching a boy wrestle a grey boar.

Yamauba Watching Kintaro Wrestle a Boar

Kubo Shunman, late 18th/early 19th century

Woodblock print of an armored samurai in horned helmet beside an orange banner, with waves and pine branches behind.

No. 3: Kato Kiyomasa, from the series "Three Tales of Valor (Buyu sanban tsuzuki)"

Katsukawa Shuntei, 1820

Woman with comb beside round mirror, child reaching for paper fish on bamboo, plum blossoms and calligraphy in a blue border.

A Woman as Ebisu, from the series "Seven Women as the Gods of Good Fortune for the Hanagasa Poetry Club (Hanagasaren…

Katsukawa Shuntei, c. 1820

Japanese print of a seated court lady in a brown robe beside a veranda with plum blossoms and a kneeling attendant.

A Court Lady as Daikoku, from the series "Seven Women as the Gods of Good Fortune for the Hanagasa Poetry Club (Hanag…

Katsukawa Shuntei, c. 1820

Woodblock print of seated figures in robes with armor, a sword, and a bonsai tree in an interior with a wave screen.

Watanabe no Tsuna receiving the sign post for Rashomon Gate from Minamoto no Yorimitsu

Katsukawa Shun'ei, n.d.

Woodblock print of court ladies on a veranda watching a chase in a yard under pine trees, with a bamboo fence and stream.

Court Ladies on a Balcony Watching a Woman and a Girl Chasing a Man in the Yard under Blossoming Cherry Trees

Katsukawa Shun'ei, late 1790s

Japanese woodblock print of a costumed warrior pulling a toy boat on a rope while a child follows, with cherry blossoms.

The Festive Custom of Asahina Continued by Jihinari for Twenty-three years (Nijusan-nen tsuzuki Jihinari kichirei Asa…

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1820

Woodblock print of a seated woman reading a poem slip beside a peony, with calligraphy, a fan, and a folding screen in an int

Young woman holding poem slip

Utagawa Toyohiro, n.d.

Ukiyo-e print of two women on a veranda, one reaching for a plum branch, with garden stones and calligraphy above.

The Daughter of Tomoyasu (Tomoyasu no musume), from the series "Three Beautiful Women (San bijin)"

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, c. 1820

Woodblock print of rice-laden cargo boats poling along a river past wooden houses and trees, with a heron at right.

Boats transporting rice on the Sumida River

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1800/05

Woodblock print of six robed poets writing on paper slips on a veranda, with a woman fanning herself and pines beyond.

Six immortal poets preparing for the Tanabata festival

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Woodblock print of two women netting goldfish in a garden, with a seated woman at a low table and a crouching figure by a tub

Goldfish farm

Katsushika Hokusai, n.d.

Travelers rest by a bay with pine trees and a sailboat, Mount Fuji rising in the distance, in a Japanese print.

Looking at the Fuji Mountain on the Route (Dochu fuji o nozomu)

Teisai Hokuba, 1805-1808

Woodblock print of peasants planting rice in paddies and a man washing a red horse beneath trees.

Rural Scene in Early Summer: Peasants Transplanting Rice and a Man Washing a Horse

Katsukawa Shun'ei, late 1790s

Japanese print of two court women by a river under a moon, with pine trees and a wooden veranda at right.

Illustration of The Bluebell (Asagao), Chapter 20 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)

Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, 19th century

Two women in patterned kimono walk under a checkered canopy beside a flowering tree in a Japanese woodblock print.

Yushima, from the series "A Comparison of Famous Things in the Eastern Capital (Toto meibutsu awase)"

Hotei Gosei, c. 1811/12

Woodblock print of a courtesan and two attendants in patterned kimono walking under a cherry tree in blossom.

Courtesan and Attendants Parading under Cherry Tree

Komai Yoshinobu, c. 1771

Etching of a rural landscape with a large tree, resting figures on a grassy bank, grazing sheep, and a distant village spire.

July in Picardie

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1909

Etched panoramic landscape of flat fields, tree lines, farmhouses and a distant town under an open sky.

Panorama Near Bloemendaal Showing the Saxenburg Estate (The Goldweigher's Field)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono beside a lattice screen, one holding a rounded object near her face.

Geisha Talking to Her Maid

Torii Kiyonaga, c. 1782

Woman in a kimono carries a black cat under a pale umbrella in the rain beside a green bamboo fence.

Honorable Mr. Cat

Helen Hyde, 1903

Woodblock print of two women in kimono, one holding an infant, with hanging wisteria above against a pale background.

A Monarch of Japan

Helen Hyde, 1901

Etching of workers at a canal lock beneath an iron footbridge, with factory chimneys and smoke in the distance.

Lock of the Canal Saint-Martin, plate six from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1890, published 1910

Title page of La Tentation de Saint-Antoine with an orange drawing of a grotesque winged creature and a coiled serpent.

Frontispiece/Title Plate for the Tentation de St. Antoine

Odilon Redon, 1896

Etched oval frontispiece titled Apocalypse de Saint Jean, showing a closed book, a perched bird, and flowers.

Cover-Frontispiece for the Apocalypse of St. John

Odilon Redon, 1899

Lithograph of a woman with a patterned headband and dark veil, her face lit by a glowing light against a shadowy background.

Dark Peak

Odilon Redon, 1887

Soft pencil sketch of a fantastical fish-like creature with large staring eyes and flowing fins on cream paper.

Menu of a Dinner for French Lithographers, April 1, 1887

Odilon Redon, Mar. 25, 1886

Lithograph of many small glowing faces floating over a dark smoky background with a shadowy form at lower left.

Why Should There Not Exist an Invisible World...?, plate 6 from Edmond Picard's Le Jure

Odilon Redon, 1887

Hand-colored Japanese woodblock print of a kimono-clad puppeteer holding two puppets beside a wooden box.

Puppeteer

Attributed to Okumura Toshinobu, c. 1730