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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Autumn Moon over Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print, oban.

Reflective Love, from the series "Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (Kasen koi no bu) (Mono-omou koi)", c. 1793/94

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku), About 1803

Kitagawa Utamaro

A color woodblock print of a white and blue waterfall cascading down from green rocky terrain with a figure standing below in the foreground

Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province (Mino no kuni Yoro no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku Takimeguri), c. 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Ishibe: Megawa Village (Ishibe, Megawa no sato), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A color woodblock print of a landscape scene, blue-green grasses, a winding road with a few travellers, papers blowing in the wind, Mt. Fuji in the background

Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshu Ejiri), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of kaftans in resin.

Untitled (filament), 2016

Kevin Beasley

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Woman Holding a Tortoise-shell Hair-comb, c. 1795/96

Kitagawa Utamaro

A color woodblock print of blue and white showing a man on the edge of a rock casting lines into a river with Mt. Fuji in the distant background

Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu Kajikazawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of woodblock print; oban.

Murasaki Shikibu, from the series Ukiyo-e Genji, Edo period (1615–1868), about 1710

Okumura Masanobu

A work made of a: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-dyed (kasuri) plain weave with creped wefts and with supplementary brocading wefts (chirimen nuitori) bound by main warp in weft float faced 1:5 's'twill interlacings b: silk, wild silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, warp-stripe plain weave with paired wefts and strips of 3:1 interlacing in alternation with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in plain interlacings.

Katagawa Obi (Side Patterned Belt), Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1914

A work made of color woodblock print, oban.

Portrait of Santo Kyoden, the Master of Kyobashi (Edo hana Kyobashi natori), c. 1795

Rekisentei Eiri

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Evening Glow at Ryogoku Bridge (Ryogoku sekisho), from the series "Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)", c. 1804/18

Utagawa Toyohiro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Inatori Bay in Izu, 1926

Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Sawamura Yodogoro II (R) as Kawatsura Hogen and Bando Zenji (L) as Onisadobo, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Perspective Picture of a Kabuki Theater (Uki-e Kabuki shibai no zu), c. 1776

Utagawa Toyoharu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban triptych.

Actor Sawamura Sôjûrô III as Oda Kazusanosuke Harunaga in “Muromacho Chronicle in Kana Script” (“Kanagaki Muromachi bundan”), About 1791

Katsukawa Shun'ei

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Chrysanthemum festival, from the series "Precious Children's Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi)", c. 1801

Torii Kiyonaga

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

Dalliance, c. 1685

Sugimura Jihei

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actors Nakajima Wadaemon (R) as Bodara Chozaemon and Nakamura Konozo (L) as Gon of the boat-keeper Kanagawaya, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

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