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 18th century, 19th
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)
Hirosada
Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Hokusai (1760-1849)
Kunichika (1835-1900)
Kunisada (1786-1864)
Kyosai (1831-1889)
Sharaku
Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Particular Genres
Eight Views of Lake Omi (Hakkei)
Ronin - Chushingura
Sugoroku
Sumo
Theatrical prints
Tokaido
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 19th-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 17th to the 20th 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 19th and early 20th
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
Ukiyo-e Societies