Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e.

Shikata nue, from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)", c. 1705/06

Okumura Masanobu

A color woodblock print showing the artist Hokusai resting upon rocks in red garments by a river with his fishing pole, a Japanese inscription in the upper right corner

Self-Portrait as a Fisherman, 1835

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Fujieda station on the Tokaido, c. 1796

Katsushika Hokusai

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

The Courtesans Shizuka and Akashi of the Tamaya, c. 1797

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Akasaka, 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.

Cherry Tree and Pheasant, 1765

Komatsuya Hyakki

A work made of pastel on japanese paper (mitsumata fiber), graphite.

Sketch for the print "Portrait of Yamada Kosaku", 1938

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of color woodblock print.

Hair Style of a Married Woman, July 1924

Ito Shinsui

A work made of color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych (right sheet: 1963.613).

Beauty standing beside morning glories, c. 1814/17

Kikukawa Eizan

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Shirasuka: View of Shiomi Slope (Shirasuka, Shiomizaka 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 hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actors Sanjo Kantaro (right) and Fujimura Handayu (left) as musicians playing under wisteria, c. 1717/18

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

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

Katsushika Hokusai

A work.

Kesa, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th/early 19th century

A color woodblock print of blossoming cherry trees in soft pinks and greens surrounded  by mist. A simple outline of Mt Fuji in the background at center.

Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom, c. 1801/05

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Yoshiwara: The Famous Sight of Mount Fuji on the Left (Yoshiwara, meisho hidari Fuji)—No. 15, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of triptych.

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tsukimasu, Acting as Sakura-maru, in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock prints; right sheet of oban triptych (complete triptych: 1930.388).

Wakana, Part 1 (Wakana, jo), from the series "A Fashionable Parody of the Tale of Genji (Furyu yatsushi Genji)", c. 1789/94

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; chutanzaku.

Moon over Ryogoku Bridge in Summer (Natsu Ryogoku no tsuki), from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons (Shiki Koto meisho)", c. 1832/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Ichikawa Omezo I (R) as Tomita Hyotaro and Otani Oniji III (L) as Kawashima Jibugoro, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

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

The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo II as Mushanosuke, Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo, and Matsushima Kichisaburo as Ochiyo's spirit in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744, 1744

Torii Kiyonobu II

<<<9101112 >>>