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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban, surimono.

The Love Letter, 1765

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Chrysanthemum festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)", c. 1801

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of color woodblock print; chutanzaku.

Rooster on a hillside in winter, mid–1830s

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Kusatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)", c. 1806

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Miya, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Kuwana: The Post Station at Tomita (Kuwana, Tomita tachiba no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Child's nightmare of ghosts, c. 1800/01

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Nakajima Wadaemon (R) as Bodara Chozaemon and Nakamura Konozo (L) as Gon of the boat-keeper Kanagawaya, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print.

Kakogawa Konami, Oboshi Rikiya and the Maidservant Suki, (Kakogawa Konami, Oboshi Rikiya, gejo Suki) from the series "Models of Love Talk: Clouds Form Over the Moon (Chiwa kagami tsuki no murakumo) ", c. 1798/1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

Rectangular, mostly brown textile made up of many small fabric squares of the same pattern, featuring flora and fauna in green, blue, and cream.

Kesa, Edo period (1615–1868), 18th century

A color wood block print of a human ghost head with long black hair and blue/white plates for a spine, emerging out of a broken barrel shape

The Mansion of the Plates (Sara yashiki), from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)", 1831-32

Katsushika Hokusai

A color woodblock print of a view looking down over a cliff side village toward a large thrashing whale surrounded by multiple boats with green flags.

Whaling off the Coast of the Goto Islands (Goto kujira tsuki), from the series "One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)", c. 1831–33

Katsushika Hokusai

A color woodblock print of a landscape scene, blue-green grasses, a winding road with a few travellers, papers blowing in the wind, Mt. Fuji in the background

Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshu Ejiri), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hashira-e, benizuri-e.

Young woman and gibbon, second half of 18th century

Torii Kiyomitsu I

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Tonase (?) in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1787 (?), c. 1787

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

The View from Komagata Hall, from the series "Eight Precincts of Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa (Asakusa Kinruzan hakkei)", c. 1782

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of wood with polychromy.

Gozanze Myo-o, 1680

Nakabayashi Gennai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask, c. 1801/04

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The actor Fujimura Handayu II as Nowake no Mae in the play "Tategami Teika Kazura," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1719, 1719

Okumura Toshinobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779, c. 1779

Katsukawa Shunsho

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