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A work made of color woodblock print; koban.

The Farmer (No) from the series Beauties Illustrating the Four Social Classes (Adesugata shi no ko sho), c. 1779

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration cut from a book.

Courtesans of the Shin Kanaya, from the series "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2, 1776

Kitao Shigemasa

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

Sparrowhawk (Konori taka), c. 1716

Torii Kiyomasu I

A work made of hand-colored woodblcok print; right sheet of hosoban diptych, urushi-e.

The Actor Ichimura Takenojo IV as Kanaya Kingoro in the play "Ima wa Mukashi Omokage Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1737, 1737

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

In the Mountains of Totomi (Totomi sanchu), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

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

Lady Tamamushi raising a fan target, c. 1681/98

Sugimura Jihei

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban, nishiki-e.

Carrying a Lantern Decorated with a Pavilion, Gohei, Flowers, and Fan (Sekiguchi-cho Rosoku-cho no banto), from the series "The Festival of the Kanda Shrine (Kanda go-sairei)", 1779

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Fukagawa Susaki and Jumantsubo (Fukagawa Susaki Jumantsubo), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Fukurokuju, from the series "The Seven Gods of Good Luck in the Floating World (Ukiyo Shichi Fukujin)", c. 1769

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Gorobei, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

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

Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Wisteria at Kameido (Kameido Tenjin fuji hana), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)", c. 1839/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print.

11 p.m., from the series "Twenty-Four Hours at Shinyanagi (Shinyanagi nijuyoji)", 1880

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

The Scoop-Net, c. 1800/01

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II (formerly Utagawa Shirogoro) as Matsuomaru and Azumo Tozo I as Sakuramaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater, 1750, 1750

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban septaptych.

Yoshiwara Impromptu, c. 1797/98

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print (album sheet).

Fox, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu), c. 1814

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Woman Holding a Round Fan, c. 1797

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

The Actors Yamamoto Iwanojo as the courtesan Katsuragi and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Fuwa Bansaku in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748, 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

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

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I (right), Sanogawa Ichimatsu I (center), and Sanogowa Senzo (left), from the triptych "Negura sanpukutsui", c. 1748

Torii Kiyonobu II

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