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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 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 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; 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 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 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.

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

Tōshūsai Sharaku

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 color woodblock print; oban.

Descending Geese at Katada (Katada rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", 1857

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Evening Bell of Dojoji (Dojoji no bansho), no. 1 from the series "Eight Views of Children (Osana hakkei)", c. 1764

Torii Kiyomitsu I

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 Actor Bando Shucho III as Shizuka Gozen, from the series “Collection of Portraits by Shunsen (Shunsen nigao shu)", 1925

Natori Shunsen

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Pipe, from the series Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women (Fujin sogaku juttai) (Kiseru), 1802/03

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

Abalone Divers, c. 1797/98

Kitagawa Utamaro

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