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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hour of the Monkey [4pm] (Saru no koku), from the series “The Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara” ("Seiro juni toki tsuzuki"), c. 1794

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Geisha of the West District, n.d.

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Drum Bridge and Yuhi Hill at Meguro (Meguro Taikobashi Yuhi-no-oka), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

Young Woman with Umbrella, c. 1740s

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A work made of color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych.

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, late 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Long Bridge at Seta (Seta no nagahashi), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", 1852

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Late 17th/early 18th century

Sekkei

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Courtesan Senzan of the Chojiya, from the series "Beauties of the Five Festivals (Bijin gosekku)", c. 1795/1800

Ichirakutei Eisui

A work made of woodblock print; sumizuri-e, oban yoko-e.

Flirting Lovers, c. 1673/81

Hishikawa Moronobu

A work made of color woodblock print; ōban.

The Evening Bell at Miidera (Mii no banshō), from the series "Eight Views in Omi Province (Omi hakkei no uchi)", 1837–38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; naga-oban.

Geisha (Geigi), from the series “Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties" ("Tosei bijin san’yu"), c. 1800

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Yagurashita no Bansho (Evening Bell at Yagurashita), Courtesan and Her Attendant at the Yagurashita Unlicensed Pleaser District in Fukagawa, from the series "Fukagawa Hakkei (Eights Views of Fukagawa)", c. 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; sheet from shikishiban hexaptych, surimono.

Minamoto no Yoshiie on horseback and a bird on a branch, from an untitled hexaptych depicting a pair of folding screens, c. 1825

Ryuryukyo Shinsai

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Night Rain of the Tea Stand (Daisu no yau), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)", c. 1766

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Twilight Moon at the Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku no yoizuki), from the series "Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)", c. 1831

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; kokonotsugiri-ban, surimono.

Zhuangzi (Japanese: Soshi), from the series "Shunshoku ressenkyo", c. 1801/18

Teisai Hokuba

Crowds on a Bridge

Crowds on a Bridge, n.d.

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Print shows a sweeping perspective view of a wide expanse of land and water rendered in pastel shades of yellow, green, and blue, the land cutting paths between pools. Figures work along these paths, beneath straw-roofed structures, and in fields. A lone snowy mountain rises in the distance, and clouds encroach upon the scene from the right.

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 58: Tarui, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

The Daruma Overcoat (Haori Daruma), from "Three Pictures of Harmony (Waki sanpukutsui)", c. 1725/30

Okumura Masanobu

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