General Sites About Japanese Woodblock Prints

Antique Japanese Woodblock Prints, Screens and Scrolls http://www.kateigaho.com/int/mar04/antiques-prints.html -- Learn more about collecting from this article in Kateigaho International Edition, Japan’s art and culture magazine

artnet.com Magazine Reviews: Art from the East http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/stern/stern5-7-01.asp -- Learn a little about Frank Lloyd Wright and his interest in Japanese woodblock prints

Birds and Flowers http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/hoytema.htm -- Some images and exposition showing the relationship between some Japanese woodblock print artists and a Dutch artist

CGFA http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/japanese.htm -- Virtual gallery includes a few dozen Japanese artists with one or more woodblock prints each

Ciudad de la Pintura http://www.pintura.aut.org/SearchAutor?EmpNum=15.362 -- Over a thousand works by almost a hundred artists with text partially in Spanish

CollectingChannel.com http://www.collectingchannel.com/cdsDetFeat.asp?PID=102213&CID=98 -- Read a few short articles and follow some links about collecting Japanese wood block prints

Eating Scenes from Ukiyo-e http://www.oysy.net/ukiyoe/index.html -- Watch a slide show with 9 prints featuring food and drink presented by oysy.net

Edo Ukiyo-e Net http://www.big.or.jp/~tom/top.html -- Site with several works, as well as information about artists and books; Japanese text only

FightingArts.com http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=249 -- Site houses an article by Love Liman about the history, making and development of the woodblock print

Hans Johansson http://www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/ -- Site for all matters related to ukiyo-e wood block prints, including a gallery, guide to Internet links, signatures and Q&A bulletin board

Ichiyusai http://homepage2.nifty.com/ICHIYUSAI/index.htm -- More than a hundred woodblock prints by various artists and featuring Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige and Yoshitoshi

Information on Collections of Japanese Art http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/00art_images_buckland.htm -- Detailed site includes listing other sites with images and/or database

Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch/JapanWoodblocks.htm -- A brief article by Arthur Lazere on “Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era: 1868-1912” and two Chikanobu triptychs

Japan, Historic Japanese Woodblock Prints http://www.exploitz.com/pictures/4291/index.php -- Review about 2 dozen vintage woodblock prints from 1688 to 1915 posted by an exploitz.com member

The Japanese Connection http://www.thejapaneseconnection.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=1&Category_Code=Maeda -- Site offers works by the national treasure, Morikazu Maeda

Japanese Culture, Arts, Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints http://www.japan-zone.com/culture/ukiyoe.shtml -- Brief article on ukiyo-e with woodblock prints by Utamaro, Hiroshige and Hokusai

Japanese Prints, Old and Sold Antiques Auction & Marketplace http://www.oldandsold.com/articles01/article804.shtml -- A subjective analysis of Japanese woodblock print themes called “Japanese Prints Are Spirit Or Mood Pictures

Japanese Woodblock Prints - Seasons http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/mus/jseasons.htm -- The Bristol City Council site includes several seasonal works by Utamaro, Keigetsu and Hiroshige

Japanese Woodblock Prints and the World of Go http://www.kiseido.com/printss/cover.htm -- Very detailed site with lots of woodblock prints and background information on ukiyo-e and the ancient game of go

Japanese Woodblock Prints http://www.asia-art.net/japan_prints.html -- Site provides some basic information and history

Japonisme http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/amico/images-disabled/japan/japonisme.html -- Interesting juxtaposition of Japanese woodblock prints to European art, such as Hiroshige to Manet

John Fiorillo http://optometry.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/ -- Comprehensive site on ukiyo-e, shin hanga and sosaku-hanga woodblock prints, including introductions, biographies, publications, links, FAQs and various topics

Jonathan Weaver Culture of Japan http://www.bridgewater.edu/~dhuffman/soc306/Weaver/ -- Brief description of ukiyo-e along with several images

Kites in Ukiyo-e http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/scrap-02 -- Two dozen kite scenes are featured on Masami Takakuwa’s kite site

Kumon http://www.kumon.co.jp/kodomo/ukiyoe/ukiyoe_index.html -- A number of woodblock prints are displayed with Japanese text only

The Manyo’an Collection http://www.gitter-yelen.org/newsite/ukiyoe.htm -- The Gitter-Yelen Art Center presents more than a dozen woodblock prints by artists including Eishi, Gosei and Hokuba

Masami Teraoka and Lynda Hess’ Studio http://www.lava.net/~artbeat/ -- Works by current artists

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/woodblks.html -- The Woodblock Prints of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu presents 100 Poems by 100 Poets, which enables you to read a poem and then look at the corresponding woodblock print

Otokoyama http://otokoyama.hokkai.or.jp/english/otoko_b/otoko_b2/otoko_b23/index.html -- The Otokoyama sake company shows half a dozen woodblock prints featuring their product

ShinHanga.net http://shinhanga.net/ -- Offers resources for non-members and even more features for members

Shotei Gallery http://shotei.com/ -- Features Shotei, Hiroaki and a handful of other artists along with articles, publishers and seals

Shunsen Art Museum http://shunsen.art-museum.city.minami-alps.yamanashi.jp/KENSAKU/index.html -- Actors and others by Shunsen in Japanese text only

Sobako Co. http://www.sobako.co.jp/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.htm -- Several woodblock prints related to soba noodles as presented by the Sobako Co.

Stamps http://www.onlineworkshop.net/ThinkQuest/Prize/ -- An interesting collection of Japanese woodblock prints reproduced on Japanese postage stamps

Ukiyo-e Art of the Floating World http://www.theblackmoon.com/Ukiyoe/ukiyoe.html -- The Black Moon displays a dozen woodblock prints by artists including Shunko, Ito and Hokusai

Ukiyo-e Gallery http://www.mms-net.com/ukiyoe/index_e.html -- Small exhibition showing some works by Eisen, Keisai and Shusui Taki

Ukiyo-e http://mtsbm6ar.ld.infoseek.co.jp/ukiyoe.htm -- Several woodblock prints with Japanese text only

Ukiyo-e http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/1787/ukiyoe.html -- Maki Hirotani describes the historical periods and several artists

Ukiyo-e http://www.gunmanet.or.jp/asakusau/asakusa/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.htm -- Eight scenes related to bathing in Japanese text only

Ukiyo-e: The Floating World http://www.geocities.com/ukiyo_e_prints/ -- Over a dozen artists are profiled via 18^th century, 19^th century, Meiji era and Shin Hanga periods

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese Woodblock Print Master http://www.japan-101.com/art/utagawa_kuniyoshi.htm -- Japan-101 offers a biography and a list of some of Kuniyoshi’s most important woodblock print series

Welcome to Hakone http://www.kankou.hakone.kanagawa.jp/alacarte/alacarte_e.html -- Everything Hakone including several woodblock prints

Woodblock Print Depicting the Construction of Himeji Castle http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/english/himeji/node51.html -- Interesting woodblock with links to other aspects of the castle

Woodblock Printmaker, David Bull http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xs3d-bull/main_page.html -- A lively overview of one man’s printmaking passion

Woodblock prints http://www.e-budokai.com/woodblock/ -- Basic background information is followed by closer looks at works by several artists including Kunisada and Toyokuni

Particular Artists

Gakutei (1786-1868)

The University Art Museum, Santa Barbara http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/Surimono_exhibition.html -- Exhibit of two surimono woodblock prints

Hirosada

EonArt – Oriental Art and More http://www.eonart.com/hirosada/index.html -- Offering includes woodblock prints, diptychs, triptychs and quadraptychs

Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Hiroshige – Stewart Guide to Japanese Prints http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~johnxyz/hiroshige/stewart/stewart.htm -- This site makes Basil Stewart’s book available in selected chapters, including “The Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido”

Hiroshige Art Museum http://homepage3.nifty.com/yuicho/e_hiros2.html -- This site provides several images of Hiroshige’s work

Tokaido fukei zue http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/treasures/jp_prints/tokaido/html/top.html -- In Japanese only, Keio University exhibits Tokaido albums

WebMuseum: Hiroshige  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hiroshige/ -- Nicolas Pioch describes Art of the Edo Period and provides a short biography and several images of Hiroshige’s work

The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~johnxyz/index.html -- Presentation of several woodblock print series, plus references, lists, links and articles

Hokusai (1760-1849)

Hagi Uragami Museum http://www.hum.pref.yamaguchi.jp/ehon/ehon.htm -- In Japanese only, the site shows several Hokusai albums

Hokusai and Japanese Art http://www.andreas.com/hokusai.html -- Andreas Ramos provides wonderful analysis of several images

Hokusai Manga Vol. 1 http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1834/manga1/index.htm -- Several dozen manga images

Hokusai Museum in Obuse, Japan, http://www.book-navi.com/hokusai/hokusai-e.html -- Museum information as well as a chronology/biography of Hokusai and several images

Hokusai, Not Only “36 Views of Mt. Fuji” But. . . The wonderful Hokusai’s world http://www.hokusai.gr.jp/menu-E.html -- Uragami Sokyu-Do Co., Ltd. displays manga and ukiyo-e woodblock prints

24 Views of Mount Fuji http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/hokusai/24views.htm -- Inspired by Roger Zelazny’s story, Tim Eagen presents the 24 Hokusai images featured in the story

WebMuseum: Hokusai http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hokusai/ -- Nicolas Pioch describes Art of the Edo Period and provides a short biography and an image of Hokusai’s work

Kunichika (1835-1900)

Digital Museum for Toyohara Kunichika http://park.org/Japan/Kyoto/zoukei/vks/rcma/djp/d_kuni/d_kuni.html -- A digital experiment on ukiyo-e paintings as collected by Dr. Naokichi Ohe,
courtesy of Library Collections Management Office at The Kyoto University of Art and Design

Kunisada (1786-1864)

Fitzwilliam Museum, Kunisada and Kabuki Web Site http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/japan/gallery/texthomepage.htm -- Explore an introduction, various themes and a virtual gallery

Kunisada Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido http://www.eonart.com/kunisada/index.html -- EonART displays woodblock prints and diptychs

Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library http://www.tosyokan.pref.shizuoka.jp/contents/english/contents/library/ukiyoe.html -- Mostly in Japanese, this site provides a genealogy and a digital library from the collection of Juntaro Kamimura

Toshidama http://62.238.34.70/toshidama/index.htm -- Theo de Kreijger displays several woodblock print series and links plus an artist list and glossary

Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese Woodblock Print Artist http://www.japan-101.com/art/utagawa_kunisada.htm -- Japan-101 offers a biography and a list of some of Kunisada’s most important woodblock print series

The Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) Project http://www.kunisada.de/ -- Horst Graebner lists hundreds of series in addition to references, signatures/seals and Kabuki artists portrayed by Kunisada

Kyosai (1831-1889)

Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~kkkb/index.html -- Information mostly about the museum, hours, publications, etc.

Sharaku

The Mystery of Toshusai Sharaku http://members.aol.com/art135b/ -- David Cheung and Johnson Ma share various theories, Sharaku’s three artistic periods, some of his works, and even a game and a message board

Sharaku http://www.ukiyo-e.de/Sharaku/sharaku.html -- Several pages of text in German about the woodblock print artist

Yoshitoshi(1839-1892)

Tsukioka/Taiso Yoshitoshi (Owariya Yonejiro) http://www.sinister-designs.com/graphicarts/yoshitoshi.html -- Sinister Designs presents a detailed biography and a number of good images and analyses

Eight Views of Lake Omi (Hakkei)

Edo kinko hakkei no uchi http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/112/124.html -- All eight images presented by the National Diet Library

Eight Views (Hakkei) http://www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/serhak01.html -- Three of the views

Hakkei http://www1.seaple.icc.ne.jp/t-hirose/text/hakkei/index.html -- All eight views on Japanese site

Toyokuni II http://www3.ndl.go.jp/cgi-bin/osform/RM_Service?osform_template=nishiki_sumimg.oft&TITLEID=503&SERID=1&START_COMA=2|b2b73c&MOVE_FLAG=1  -- Seven of the views presented by the National Diet Library

Ronin - Chushingura

Chushingura: Revenge of the 47 Samurai http://www.ukans.edu/~sma/chushin/chushin.htm -- The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas presents the work of various artists and a summary of the 11-act play

Sugoroku

Sugoroku Collection Database http://library.u-gakugei.ac.jp/lbhome/sugoroku.html -- Dozens of images of Japanese board games with text in Japanese

Sugoroku Library http://www.sugoroku.net/lib/index.html -- Japanese only

Sumo

Historical Sumo Images http://www.banzuke.com/art/ArtIndex.html -- Several categories of woodblock prints with many examples of each

Theatrical prints

Enpaku Ukiyo-e Gallery; Actor Prints from the Theatre Museum http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/gallery/e_gallery.html -- The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University hosts many images, including Kaidan Kyogen (Ghost Stories) with mostly Japanese text

Kabuki prints http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/kaiki/contents/nishikie.html Waifu Seijyuro presents about a dozen woodblock prints with Japanese text

Two Views of Kabuki http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/ukiyoe/ukiyoehome.html The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts parallels the artistic presentations for Kanadehon Chushingura or The Treasury of Loyal Retainers by Utagawa Kuniaki and Utagawa Fusatane

Yakushae http://www.kabuki21.com/yakushae.php Dozens of actor portrait prints

Tokaido

Mie Prefectural Museum http://www.museum.pref.mie.jp/miehaku/Shiryo/jinbun/ukiyoekuwana.htm Site from the natural history museum offers several woodblock prints with Japanese text only

Tokaido http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1537/ Fabio Vitali displays two series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by various artists with mostly Italian text

Tokaido http://japan-city.com/toukai/ Many woodblock print images with Japanese text only

Tokaido http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano-Aoyama/7750/pro.html Woodblock prints interestingly juxtaposed with photographs, Japanese text only

A Visual Literacy Exercise http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html -- Interesting site which takes you on a 30-minute examination of selected views of “Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido” to learn more about Japanese art

Museums and Libraries

A Witness to History http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/e-rekihaku/102/ -- The National Museum of Japanese History displays several depictions of color woodblock prints of the Tokaido

Absolute Arts http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/08/27/31327.html -- Brief art news about the Museum of New Zealand’s current exhibit called “From Woodblocks to Comics: The Japanese Impression”

Arts of Asia http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/japan/subjects/explore.cfm -- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents a number of educational features, as well as a woodblock print database

Asia in New York City:  Art & Design http://www.asiainnyc.org/2_0_feature.html -- The Asia Society looks at the history and appreciation of Japanese wood-block prints with a New York sensibility

Asia Society: The Collection in Context http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/region_results.asp?RegionID=6&CountryID=14&ChapterID=42&PageID=1 -- The Asia Society offers a brief description of Japanese woodblock prints and four images, including a Sharaku and a Utamaro

Bayly Art Museum: Universes in Collision http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/ -- A virtual gallery of “Men and Women in 19^th-Century Woodblock Prints”

C’s Ukiyo-e Museum http://homepage2.nifty.com/ukiyo-e/ -- NPO Nagano Ukiyo-e Institution hosts an online exhibit with text in Japanese

City of Odawara http://www.city.odawara.kanagawa.jp/encycl/ -- In Japanese text only, site has menus for ukiyo-e, sogabros and keibajyo

Clendening Japanese Medical Prints http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/jm/japan1.html -- A few dozen medical-related woodblock prints from the University of Kansas Medical Center

Connecticut College’s Black’s woodblock print collection http://www.conncoll.edu/visual/Japanese-prints/index-main.html -- Features Hiroshige’s fishes and Tokaido series, as well as various other artists

Early Masters: The Floating World of Ukiyo-e http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/early.html  -- Library of Congress exhibition of works from the 17^th to the 20^th century

Educational Colored Woodblock Prints

http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/kichosho/kyoiku-nishikie-eng.html -- The University of Tsukuba Library archives about 100 educational woodblock prints on various topics dating from 1873

ETC Museum Without Walls http://www.evolvingtech.com/etc/museum/ukiyo.html -- Ukiyo-e collection includes a dozen woodblock prints by artists including Harunobu, Shunsho and Eiri

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco http://www.zazzle.com/collections/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=238298409831927502&general_product_type=228&general_category_id=196369861209135960 -- Site displays 130 woodblock prints by various artists

Hagi Uragami Museum http://www.hum.pref.yamaguchi.jp/seek/cgi-bin/index_n.htm -- Image database with Japanese text only

The Gibbes Museum of Art Japanese Print Gallery http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/jap.htm -- A selection of images from a collection nearing 700

The ImageBase http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/subpage.asp?subpagekey=420 -- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s searchable database with more than 3,200 Japanese woodblock prints

Image Database of the Kano Collection, Tohoku University Library http://www2.library.tohoku.ac.jp/kano/kano_top.html -- Mostly in Japanese, database features about 13,700 images

Images of Korea in Ukiyo-e Prints http://mdat.ff.tku.ac.jp/korea/korea.html -- Tokyo Keizai University Library Collection in Japanese only

Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Nagano http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/nagano/sakai_ukiyoe.html -- Read about the history and making of Japanese woodblock prints, as well as information about the museum itself

Japanese Education Iconography  http://education.umn.edu/EdPA/iconics/Gallery3/default.htm -- The University of Minnesota’s Virtual Museum of Education Iconics brings you a number of images featuring reading, fencing and calligraphy

Japanese Woodblock Prints at the Hood Museum of Art http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ukiyoe/ -- Learn about woodblock print production and view series including Along the Tokaido Highway and Chushingura

Japanese Woodblock Prints:  The Dutch in Nagasaki http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/japaneseprints/ -- The International Institute of Social History exhibits 40 rare prints from 1800 to 1865 showing the Dutch traders in Nagasaki

Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth http://www.kimbellart.org/database/ -- Collection includes Japanese woodblock prints and objects

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art http://www.kmma.jp/collect/collect.html -- Information and images available in Japanese-text only

LAPL’s Japanese Print Index http://pubindex.lapl.org/pages/japanese.htm -- The Los Angeles Public Library has almost 300 Japanese woodblock prints in its database, but you must make an appointment to view them

Library of the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~http/TOSHO/WAKO/intro.html -- Site with Japanese text only

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collections Online http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=browsetop -- Database includes a large array of woodblock prints and objects

MFA – Online Collections Database http://www.mfa.org/artemis/results.asp?pk=2580&so=2 -- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts makes available nearly 100 Japanese woodblock print images

MMA Japanese Print Collection http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v12/bp12-06.html -- Read Betty Fiske’s detailed paper presented to The Book and Paper Group and called “Metropolitan Museum of Art Japanese Print Collection:  Condition Survey, Computer Cataloging and Exhibition Concerns”

Nagoya TV Ukiyo-e Museum http://www.nagoyatv.com/ukiyoe/index.html -- Nicely done site with a number of works; choose to view via several artists or via several categories

Nara Prefectural Museum of Art http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~museum/20sen/kanzou-top/ukiyoej.htm -- About two dozen masterpieces from several periods, mostly in Japanese

National Diet Library http://www3.ndl.go.jp/rm/index.html -- In Japanese only, this site provides images of countless ukiyo-e woodblock prints

New Exhibit (Pacific Asia Museum) http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/calendar/occshowa.htm -- Several images accompany the description of the current exhibit called “The Occupations of Showa Japan in Pictures:  The Woodblock Prints of Wada Sanzo”

Nishiki-e from the George S. Bonn Collection http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/treasures/jp_prints/nishikie/nishikie.html -- Keio University hosts this site, in Japanese text only

Nishiki-e from the Tokyo Gas Co. Museum http://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/gas_museum/nishiki_e/ -- Several dozen works in categories including author, scene and style

Nishiki-e Gallery http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/personal/yokoyama/nishikie/cover.html -- In Japanese text only, this University of Tokyo site has a large image directory

Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7489n8zj -- Enjoy 61 images and their details from various historical periods

Purdue University Galleries http://www.sla.purdue.edu/ad/ad/area2/galleries2/japanese2/japanese2.html -- Includes a dozen woodblock prints

The Royal Academy of Arts http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/?lid=178 -- Site features short explanations of various periods of wood-block prints, including “The Rough Style,” “Parody Pictures” and “Pillar Prints”

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery http://web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu/IT_808$32*371338 -- Scripps College features a few dozen images, including Goyo, Hasui and Shoson

The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art http://www.shermanleeinstitute.org/exhibition-winter04.html -- On exhibition for 2004 in two rotations is “Japan and Beyond:  The Yoshida Family Legacy in Japanese Woodblock Prints”

Silk Ukiyo-e Gallery  http://silk.shinshu-u.ac.jp/silk&cocoon/English/NishikieE.html -- Shinshu University presents half a dozen nishiki-e

SILS Art Image Browser http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/ -- University of Michigan Museum of Art hosts a number of images from different time periods

Smart Museum http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/smart/ -- University of Chicago has a few dozen on-line images, including Hiroshige, Hokusai, Shoson and Utamaro

Smithsonian Highlights, Hashiguchi Goyo’s woodblock prints http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues95/sep95/contd_0995.html -- A brief article on the artist by Diane M. Bolz along with several images

Some of Ukiyo-e Arts http://www.cjn.or.jp/ukiyo-e/arts-index.html -- The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum offers a dozen classic images by various artists

Takamatsu Historical Museum  http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/rekisi/genpei/genpei.html -- Various artists depict the Genpei War

Tobacco and Salt Museum http://www.jti.co.jp/Culture/museum/english/gallery/index.html -- Website focuses on woodblock prints showing tobacco and smoking

Tokyo Metropolitan Library http://metro.tokyo.opac.jp/tml/tpic/resprint_d/all/isbn001_0_100/isbn001_001_001.html -- In Japanese only, this database delivers more than 8,000 images of woodblock prints

Tokyo National Museum http://www.tnm.go.jp/en/servlet/Con?pageId=E08&processId=00&ref=2&start=1&Q4=114_____4423_ -- About a dozen Edo period works by various artists

Tokyo University Digital Museum http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dm2k-umdb/publish_db/books/news/index.html -- Japanese text only

Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries http://www.nla.gov.au/worldtreasures/html/theme-literature-3-woodblock.html -- National Library of Australia analyzes a woodblock print by Toyokuni

UBC Special Collection http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/beans.html -- The University of British Columbia presents information on the George Beans Collection of Japanese maps, including one by Katsushika Hokusai

Ukiyo-e in the Sweet Briar Collection http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/ukiyoe/index.html -- Sweet Briar College’s Representations of Women include representations of almost two dozen artists, including Eisen, Kunisada and Toyokuni

Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts http://web-japan.org/museum/ukiyoe.html -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs displays different categories of ukiyo-e, along with descriptions and several examples

Visions of People:  The Influences of Japanese Prints http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/4/82.04.03.x.html -- The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute offers a detailed study guide about the influences of ukiyo-e on late 19^th and early 20^th century French art

Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/coll/prnt/japan.html -- Database with about 600 ukiyo-e woodblock print images and a smaller number of modern artists

Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents some information and examples on the Edo period, the Kano school and the Rinpa painting style

Worcester Art Museum http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/japanese.html -- This online gallery includes about a dozen Japanese works by various artists

Private Collectors

Alexander Nisbet’s Virtual Ukiyo-e http://www.surimono.com/ -- Site offers several dozen woodblock prints by artists including Kunichika, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi

Edo Ukiyo-e World http://www.amy.hi-ho.ne.jp/~yukichan/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.htm -- In Japanese only, site features many woodblock prints

Gallerie http://perso.club-internet.fr/chdiat/ESTAMPE/gallerie.html -- Christian Diat’s small collection of woodblock prints in French text only

George Zaidmann’s Ukiyo-e Collection http://www.diamonds.clara.net/ -- Site totals several dozen works by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Hokusai and more

J. Noell Chiappa’s Home Page http://users.exis.net/~jnc/ -- Scroll down the home page for links to Japanese series, seals, bibliography, woodblock print terms and more

Jean-Gabriel Luque’s Ukiyo-e http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-gabriel.luque/Ukiyo-e.htm -- In French only, site has several woodblock print examples in categories including Primitive, Edo, Meiji and Shin Hanga

Jim Breen’s Ukiyo-e Gallery http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.html -- Collection showcases about a dozen artists, such as Eizan, Sharaku and Kunichika and includes several dozen web links

John Hudocks’s Japanese Woodblock Prints http://commonsensewonder.com/spgm/spgmjp.php?g=JapanesePrints -- Site displays a large collection of bijin and landscape ukiyo-e woodblock prints

Kuchi-e http://www.oberlin.edu/staff/fzwegat/Default.html -- Fred Zwegat posts nine turn-of-the-century bijin frontispieces

Laszlo G.-Toth Ukiyo-e Collection http://tres.blki.hu/gtoth/ukiyo-e/ukiyo-e.html -- List of the original ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Toth’s collection with pictures of most

Les Estampes Japonaises http://lejapon.org/estampes.htm -- About a dozen works showcased with text mostly in French

Per Hofman Hansen’s Ukiyo-e http://www.aldus.dk/hiroshige/ -- Site mostly in Danish compares a work by Hiroshige with one of Hiroshige II; also includes several Hiroshige links

Randy Johnson’s Japanese and Asian Woodblock Prints http://ease.com/~randyj/arthanga.htm -- Site features several works by various artists, including Koson and Toyokuni

Tom Halstead’s Japanese Woodblock Prints https://store.nobbly.com/archive/woodblockprints/index.html -- Site features works by various artists, including Chikanobu, Hiroshige and Yoshitoshi

Toshio Matsumoto’s Ukiyo-e Page  http://www.tecc.ne.jp/usr/matsumoto/welcome2.htm -- In Japanese only, site displays several bijin woodblock prints

Ukiyo-e by John H. Boyd III http://ecojb.fiu.edu/ukiyoe/index.html -- Site provides information and examples that include ukiyo-e, Utamaro and Hiroshige

Y’s Art Gallery http://www.na.rim.or.jp/~y_naka/e-index.shtml -- Yasumasa Nakano features about a dozen works by various artists, including Hosoda, Miyakawa and Tosa

Yoshikazu Mizumoto’s Ukiyo-e http://www2.gol.com/users/water/tour_e.html -- Site contains over a hundred ukiyo-e images

Techniques of Japanese Woodblock Print Making

Artsedge: Japanese Woodblock Prints http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3419/ -- The Kennedy Center provides a lesson plan for learning to make and appreciate woodblock prints

Encyclopedia of Woodblock Printmaking http://www.barenforum.org/encyclopedia/outline.html -- Information both general and technical on various aspects of printmaking, including suppliers, business considerations and collecting

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/woodblock.html -- Learn about creating a woodblock print as part of this PBS program guide

Jean Eger http://www.jeaneger.com/kento/ -- If you’d like to do it yourself, check out Jean Eger’s “How to make color woodblocks using Japanese Kento registration”

Print Arts Northwest, Education, Japanese Woodblock http://www.printartsnw.org/education/education_woodblock.php -- Notes from Barbara Mason’s talk about Japanese woodblock printmaking

Printmaking http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~SI9H-YBK/what.html -- “How to” pictures with Japanese text only

Technique of the Color Wood-cut http://www.sharecom.ca/phillips/technique1.html -- Detailed information about the making of Japanese wood-block prints

Wood Block Printing http://www.koganet.ne.jp/~kitagawa/e_index.html -- Site includes information on how to make woodblock prints and how to appreciate Buddhist images as well as a collection of works

Ukiyo-e Societies

International Ukiyo-e Society http://www.ukiyo-e.gr.jp/ -- Japanese text only

Society for Japanese Arts http://www.society-for-japanese-arts.org/ -- Read about publications, such as Andon, membership and activities

Ukiyo-e Society of America http://www.ukiyo-e.org/ -- Learn about publications, membership and museum exhibitions