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A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Ebisu, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in Modern Life (Tosei Shichi Fukujin)", c. 1769

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print.

Before the Mirror, July 1916

Ito Shinsui

A color woodblock print of a blue river with Mt. Fuji in the distant background, a figure in a boat in the river as well as a fgure with a horse on the shoreline

Tama River in Musashi Province (Bushu Tamagawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A stately white home outlined in black with columns, lattices, ornate ironwork, and a decorative frieze. A yellow sky with huge clouds and full, sienna-toned trees frame the home.

Old Munich, 1905

Gustave Baumann

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

Evening View of Eight Famous Sites at Kanazawa (Buyo Kanazawa hassho yakei), 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Ono no Komachi Washing the Book, Edo period (1615–1868), 1765/66

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hydrangea and Swallow, from an untitled series of large flowers, c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of pair of six-panel screens; ink and light color on paper.

Landscape of the Four Seasons, About 1560

Sesson Shukei

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, tan-e.

The Actor Sanjo Kantaro II as Oshichi in the play "Nanakusa Fukki Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1718, 1718

Torii Kiyonobu I

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Geisha Style (geisha fū) from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tōsei fūzoku tsū), 1801

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)", 1921

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print.

Kozu, Osaka, from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1924

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

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

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Egret Standing in Rain, 1928

Ohara Koson

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

Abstract print featuring a grid-like pattern of rectangular color blocks in green, yellow, and blue with a woodgrain pattern, red splotches dabbled throughout.

Objet No. 2, 1954

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hilltop View from Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenjin sakaue tenbo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1856

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

A Little Restaurant [at Night] (Ryoriya no yoru), 1933

Yoshida Hiroshi

A work made of hanging scroll, ink on paper.

Ink Landscape, Muromachi period, early 16th century

Kano Motonobu

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