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

Dalliance, c. 1685

Sugimura Jihei

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 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

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.

A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

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 sloping orange-red mountain with a single peak rises from the lower-left quadrant of the work, the peak cresting at upper right. The mountain’s base, speckled with trees, is green, while its peak, lined with white show, is mostly brown. A rich blue sky above the mountain is crowded with long, thin, fluffy clouds.

A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock prints; oban triptych.

Chinese Beauties at a Banquet, 1788/90

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)", 1919

Watanabe Shozaburo

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi rokkasen): Bishop Henjo, c. 1798

Chôbunsai Eishi

A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.

A Picture of Prosperity: America (Amerika shin no zu), 1861

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The Waitress Ohisa of the Takashimaya, c. 1792/93

Katsukawa Shunchô

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Okitsu: Kiyomigaseki and Seiken Temple (Kiyomigaseki, Seikenji)—No. 18, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

Earthenware plate decorated with colorful flower and grape border on the rim and central figurative scene depicting a fashionably dressed couple in the front with a barber serving a man at the back. The scene has an inscription "LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE" with five more lines at the bottom.

Commodore Perry, c. 1853/54

A color woodblock print of a blue river with Mt. Fuji in the distant background, a figure in a boat in the river as well as a fgure with a horse on the shoreline

Tama River in Musashi Province (Bushu Tamagawa), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hydrangea and Swallow, from an untitled series of large flowers, c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Geisha Style (geisha fū) from the series Guide to Contemporary Styles (Tōsei fūzoku tsū), 1801

Kitagawa Utamaro

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