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A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Takashima Ohisa, c. 1795

Kitagawa Utamaro

Panel of fabric and paper, central circle formed by thin vertical strips; top half colored blue.

Americans Baking Bread (Amerikajin pan wo yaku zu), 1861

Utagawa Yoshikazu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro Province (Yamashiro Arashiyama no Togetsukyo), from the series "Unusual Views of Famous Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyo kiran)", c. 1833/34

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Yamauba with Kintaro Holding a Toy Mask, c. 1801/04

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of 1/2 length & open, in brocaded, plain compound twill, silk & gilt & silvered paper, 2 strips to mm., also gilt paper wound on silk core..

Obi (Belt), 1901/1925, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of silk, rayon, and silver-leaf-over-paper strips, gold- and silver-leaf-over-paper-wrapped rayon, and rayon, plain weave with gauze crossings and plain and weft-float faced 1:7 satin interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Obi (Belt), 1901/25, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; interlining: silk fiber over cotton, plain weave.

Obi (Belt), 1901/25, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi"), c. 1794/95

Kitagawa Utamaro

A color woodblock print of an actor, seen from chest up, in a cream, red, black and green garment, a dramatic facial expression and hand gesture

The actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hanaogi of the Ogiya, from the series "Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase)", c. 1793/97

Eishosai Choki

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Ejiri—No. 19, 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; ōban.

Okabe: Mount Utsu (Okabe, Utsunoyama)—No. 22, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, 1847–52

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblcok print; oban.

Otsu—No. 54, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

Color print of Japanese man with sword making a funny face.

The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Snow at Mount Ibuki, 1920

Hashiguchi Goyô

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 color woodblock print of a white and blue waterfall on the left side, a river, bridge and house in the foreground, trees and mountains on the right side

Ono Falls on the Kisokaidō Road(Kisokaidō Ono no bakufu), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), About 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Ryogoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryogokubashi Okawabata), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1856

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of silk and gold-leaf on paper; warp-float faced 2:1 satin weave with supplementary weft float patterning.

Fragment (From an Obi), 1901/25, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

A work made of 1/2 length & open, in compound satin, silk & golt paper wound on silk core..

Obi (Belt), 1901/1925, Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)

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