A work made of ink on paper.

Sketch for Autumn Moon at Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama no shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views in Omi Province (Omi hakkei)", c. 1859

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

A work made of color woodblock print; edition 4/50.

Rescued Bird, 1957

Azechi Umetaro

A work made of color woodblock print.

Matsue, Izumo, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshū), 1924

Kawase Hasui

A pair of white, blue, pink, and black cranes, one with wing extended, perch on a wide, knotty, snow-covered pine branch.

Cranes on snow-covered pine, c. 1834

Katsushika Hokusai

A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

The Heron Maiden, c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print.

Nocturne, 1955

Uchima Ansei

A work made of color woodblock print.

Bird, from Milestones of the Season (Shibunshū “Kisetsu-hyō”)Season (Shibunshû “Kisetsu-hyô”), 1935

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition.

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Courtesan Likened to the Chinese Sage Zhang Guolao (Japanese: Chokaro), c. 1715

Okumura Masanobu

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

The Actors Tamazawa Saijiro I as the pageboy Umezaburo and Segawa Kikunojo I as Oroku in the play "Sazareishi Suehiro Genji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1744, 1744

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Goldfish, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)", c. 1802

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; two sheets of oban triptych.

Sino-Japanese War, 1895

Kobayashi Ikuhide

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Arai, 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

Print in color of two sailboats on blue water carrying cargo. One boat has five humans in it, two wearing red with wide hats, three in blue. A black mountain range, sparse with trees, rises in the background. Japanese characters appear in black ink in the upper portion of the image, with additional text on a red vertical banner in the the upper-right corner and in red at lower left.

Maisaka: The Ferry at Imagiri (Maisaka, Imagiri funawatashi), 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.

A Perspective View: The Two Deva Kings Gate of Kinryuzan Temple (Ukie: Kinryuzan niomon no zu), 1781/89

Katsushika Hokusai

Three adult figures walk on a boardwalk over reed-filled water, one carrying a baby, wearing clothes in red, blue, and gray tones, with shadowy trees and a tent structure in the background. Japanese characters in red and black ink appear at upper left and bottom right.

No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; vertical nagaban.

Li Bai (Japanese: Ri Haku), from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)", c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

Small iron sculpture of a dragon with a serpentine body, legs with talons, and long tail, all made of moveable joints.

Articulated Dragon, c. 1880

School of Myochin

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Asakusa Imado, from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)", c. 1832/33

Utagawa Kuniyoshi