Hanaikada, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing
Print shows flower petals falling on a log raft and the man driving the raft. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Sumizurie. Proba... More
Utagawa Hiroshige - Ryōgoku sentyu asakusa enkei
Print shows view from the Ryōgoku Bridge of boats on a river.
Seta no sekisho, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a long bridge spanning Seta River, ships and boats on the river, and mountains in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2... More
Tabako wo suu yakusha - Public domain portrait drawing
Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Actor print. Background by Kunihisa. Forms par... More
Sasshu makurazaki kaimongadake jusei odori - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a group of dancers wearing oversized masks dancing in a circle on a beach with small village on the shore and a view of snowcapped mountain in the background. Title and other descriptive information... More
Yokohama kenbutsu zue - Public domain portrait painting
Japanese print shows a foreign visitor standing outside a building in Yokohama, Japan. He is looking up and appears to be thinking, his thoughts depicted on the right, outside the space occupied by him, as a fr... More
Ikoku kotoba - Amerika - Public domain engraving
Japanese print shows a Russian woman playing the flute and an English man holding a rifle. Includes Japanese translations of English words on recto of print, e.g. kome/ raisu (rice), mugi / beruri (barley), cha... More
Amerika jokan hansui o gansuru no zu, Sadahide Utagawa
Japanese print shows an American woman playing an accordian; a dog sits on her right and a man stands to her left. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Seal date: Monkey. From series entitled: Ikiutsushi ikoku jinb... More
Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi - Igirisu - Ukiyo e print
Japanese print shows an English soldier and a woman walking with an umbrella. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Monkey 12. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi (People from foreign lands). Annotati... More
Ajisai ni shōkin - Public domain drawing
Print shows a small bird perched on a branch of a hydrangea plant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Kogata Nishikie. Forms pa... More
Gaikokujin yūkō no zu - Igirisu nyonin
Japanese print shows a woman riding sidesaddle. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Cock 1. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 133; LC2585; 47623a (white label); 17. Earlier control number: 9942.3-22... More
Yokkaichi, Utagawa Hiroshige - Public domain drawing
Print shows travelers, one on horseback, passing inns or other commercial facilities along a street at the Yokkaichi station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-... More
Ijin shishimai kenbutsu no zu - Public domain portrait engraving
Print shows a man and a woman watching street entertainers performing a New Year's dance. Signature: Ichigeisai Yoshitomi. Engraving attributed to: Hori Take. Seal date: Cock 3. Annotations, stamps, etc. on ve... More
Bankoku jinbutsu zue - Itaria kokuō - Ukiyo e print
Japanese print shows a full-length portrait of a man seated in a chair, facing left. Signature: Ichieisai Yoshitsuya ga. Seal date: Cock 1. From series entitled: Bankoku jinbutsu zue (People of the barbarian n... More
Amerika - Public domain Japanese woodblock print
Japanese print shows an American family. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 82; 47623a; 5. Earlier control number: 9942.25-2. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Cha... More
[Two long-necked creatures accosting a noodle shop customer]
Ukiyo-e drawing illustration showing Rokurokubi and Mikoshi-nyūdō, demons from Japanese folklore, frightening noodle shop customers to illustrate the proverb that "resistance is futile." Illus. in: Kyōsai hansh... More
Igirisu rondon taikō, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Japanese triptych (one section only) print shows ships in a harbor with women and men walking and riding horses in the foreground. Print created by either Hiroshige II or Hiroshige III. Signature: Hiroshige ga... More
[Ronin, or masterless Samurai, in doorway]
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing Ronin emerging from between curtains with sword drawn. Illus. in: Seichū gishi meimei gaden / Tsukioka (Utagawa) Yoshitoshi, 1869. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e... More
Urashima - Drawing. Public domain image. - Ukiyo e print
Print shows Urashima Tarō, a fisherman, sitting on the back of a turtle headed for an undersea palace after rescuing the turtle from a group of children.
[Village scene in Japan showing people engaged in various activities]
Japanese print shows activities including: tilling soil, poling boats, talking, riding on horseback, and riding in a rickshaw.
[Children parading]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing children gaily following a boy carrying a hand drum. Title and other information from exhibit website: Illus. in: Omacha-e, kodomo-e, harimazechō, ca. 1875. Published in: The... More
Semimaru - Public domain Japanese woodblock print
Print shows Prince Semimaru tuning a lute by the light of a full moon at his mountain retreat on Mount Ausaka.
Tamausagi songokū, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print
Print shows Son Goku, a monkey sometimes known as the Monkey King, holding a spiked sceptre and glaring at the Moon Rabbit, who apparently lives on the moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by ... More
Konkai, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Public domain portrait drawing
Print shows a fox that has the ability to change its form, shown here disguised as an old priest, but now slowly transforming back to its original form. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More
Enchū no tsuki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print
Print shows firemen standing on the rooftops of buildings, signaling to each other during a conflagration. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005... More
[Edo nihonbashi], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print
Print shows pedestrians and porters crossing the Nihon Bridge with view from the bridge of a canal and a temple and Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled b... More
Chōyō, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print
Print shows two women looking at flowers, one is holding scissors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Beauties having fu... More
[Sanka hakū], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print
Print shows lightning from a thunder storm below the summit of Mount Fuji. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the se... More
Hasu ni shirasagi - Public domain drawing
Print shows a white heron in the water next to a water lily plant and lotus flower. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full color... More
Nisshin sensō e - Public domain drawing
Print shows a cannon shell exploding against a tree in the midst of four warriors on horseback; possbily during the battle at Kaiping Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Ed... More
[Battle scene - soldiers storming a fort, engaging troops defending th...
Print shows a battle with soldiers storming a fort during the Nanjing Uprising which took place between Nov. 24 to Dec. 2, 1911. The Nanjing Uprising was part of the Xinhai Revolution also known as the Revolut... More
[Fūkeiga], Katsushika Hokusai, depicting Mount Fuji
Print shows two travelers, one on horseback, on a beach and a small boat offshore, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More
Hon[orable Mr] cat / HH [monogram].
Print shows a young Japanese girl carrying a cat, walking in the rain under an umbrella held by an adult. Signed and numbered (192) in pencil below print.
General Kuropatkin & his staff joyfully leaving St. Petersburg for the...
Print shows the Russian general A.N. Kuropatkin parting with difficulty from two grief-stricken women while his staff waits in the background. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo prin... More
[Japanese sailor with rifle holding three Chinese battleships at bay]
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Utagawa Hiroshige - Yamato hasedera
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Hasedera temple in the Yamato Province. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Shokoku ... More
Bushō no zu - miniature, medieval manuscript
Prints show paper samples of one before and two after illustrations; the before print shows a warrior wearing brightly colored garments, and the two after prints show this warrior and another warrior blending i... More
Bushō no zu - Public domain portrait drawing
Prints show paper samples of one before and two after illustrations; the before print shows a warrior wearing brightly colored garments, and the two after prints show this warrior and another warrior blending i... More
Utagawa Toyoharu - Kyōto sanjūsangendō no zu
Print shows a wooden building, Sanjūsangendō, a Buddhist temple housing 1001 statues of Kannon, a Buddhist goddess, with an archer kneeling at one end shooting an arrow into the bull's-eye of a target at the ot... More
Yokohama kōeki seiyōjin nimotsu unsō no zu, Sadahide Utagawa
Japanese pentaptych print shows an American ship in the harbor at Yokohama, Japan; small boats ferry cargo which is being carried up a gangplank contributing to the bustle of activity on the main deck. Signatu... More
Kita-Amerika kyōwa seiji-shū jōkan shinzō no utsushi
Japanese print shows an American military officer (probably Captain Henry Adams). Annotation in pencil on mount: (1) Envoy plenipotentiary Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry. (2) Actual portrait of an officer, Re... More
[Japanese sailor, with his bare hands, is fighting with two Russian ba...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Keinen kachōgafu fuyu no bu - Public domain dedication image
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Keinen kachōgafu fuyu no bu. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Keinen kachōgafu fuyu no bu. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Fujiwara no hidesato no mukade taiji
Print shows Fujiwara Hidesato and another warrior on board a ship with a woman being attacked by a sea monster. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More
Wada yoshimori tomoe gozen yamabuki, Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (423a), center (423b), right (423c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More
Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain scan / drawing
Print shows several actors in a battle scene with one warrior defending himself against several attackers during an assault on a fortress, with bridge in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More
Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain drawing
Print shows several actors in a battle scene with one warrior defending himself against several attackers during an assault on a fortress, with bridge in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More
Okamotoya uchi Shigeoka Sugataebiya uchi Sugatano : Tamaya uchi Hanamu...
Ukiyo-e triptych showing three courtesans (shin yoshiwara). Left section: Hanamurasak from Tamaya house on Edo Street. Center section: Sugatano from Ebiya house on Kyo Street. Right section: Shigeoka from Okamo... More
Shinshū zenkōji michi kusuri yama - Ukiyo e print
Print shows travelers on a steep mountain pass near the Zenkōji Temple and building cantilevered over the pathway on Kusuri Mountain. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Ed... More
Peri raikō - Public domain print
Polyptych matted in 5 sections: left (430a), left center (430b), center (430c), right center (430d), right (430e). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More
Hinamatsuri. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Japanese print from a book shows three richly dressed women or girls eating and drinking, probably celebrating Hina Matsuri (Girl's Day) with a doll ceremony showing dolls sitting at a table in the background. ... More
Kai outsuki no hara - Public domain scenic drawing
Print shows wild flowers and a small brook in a field, with mountains and a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More
Oumayagashi no zu, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print
Print shows people walking along the shoreline of a river during a rain storm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Tōto... More
Hachimantarō Yoshiie Abe Sadatō : Sadatō Tsuma Sodehagi.
Ukiyo-e triptych showing night scene lit by a lantern from a Kabuki play. Left section: Actor Hachiman Tarō Yoshiie, standing holding a parasol, with an unidentified actor dressed as a lion. Center section: Act... More
"What makes Japanese soldiers so strong?" asks Russia. "We are filled ...
Print shows bloated Russian officers eating bullets and shells offered to them by trim Japanese soldiers. (in the Japanese reply, "we all eat" is crossed out and replaced with "we are filled with"). Signed on ... More
Tsurishinobu mebae no futsuzuka - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a dance performance from a play with a woman dancing with musicians in the background, also a portrait of a warrior hanging on the wall in the upper right.
Gokakoku jinbutsu - dontaku no zu - Ukiyo e print
Japanese triptych print shows the interior of a foreign settlement house with several women and men enjoying a tea party, and a view of ships in the harbor in the background, Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Yoshit... More
[A Russian woman is having a nightmare showing disasterous defeats of ...
Signed on block with chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō : Long l... More
Shinshū kawanakajima ōg[k?]assen - Ukiyo e print
Print shows battle scene (probably from the 4th battle in 1561) on the plains at the Chikuma River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Po... More
Shinshū kawanakajima ōg[k?]assen - Ukiyo e print
Print shows battle scene (probably from the 4th battle in 1561) on the plains at the Chikuma River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Po... More
Hachidaime ichikawa danjūrō kaja yoshitaka - Ukiyo e print
Full-length portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danj-ro VIII in a scene from the play Raigō ajari kaisoden. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.... More
Soga no adauchi - Public domain city architecture drawing
Print shows actors portraying the two Soga brothers and other warriors in a Soga kabuki play. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych ... More
Amerika nigiwai no zu - Public domain dedication image
Japanese triptych print showing supposed view of an American town square, with people walking around, although the source for the architecture was an illustration of the Fredericksburg Castle near Copenhagen th... More
Amerika nigiwai no zu - Drawing. Public domain image.
Japanese triptych print showing supposed view of an American town square, with people walking around, although the source for the architecture was an illustration of the Fredericksburg Castle near Copenhagen th... More
Sugawara no michizane - Public domain portrait print
Drawing shows Sugawara Michizane, full-length portrait, facing left; later copy of no. 17. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms pa... More
Suruga miho no matsubara / Hiroshige-ga.
Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji with a pine grove on a promontory in the Suruga Bay surrounded by sailboats. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More
Tōto nishiki gyōretsu ichigaya hatimannae no kei
Print shows a procession of women, some carrying a sedan chair, others carry packages (gifts?), with view of the Hachiman Shrine in the background.
Tōto nishiki gyōretsu ichigaya hatimannae no kei
Print shows a procession of women, some carrying a sedan chair, others carry packages (gifts?), with view of the Hachiman Shrine in the background.
Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu
Japanese triptych print shows large groups of women pilgrims visiting Enoshima shrine to worship an image of Benzaiten, the Goddess of Good Fortune. They are walking towards an island on a causeway with sailboa... More
Yamauba to kaidōmaru, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan
Print shows actors portraying the old woman of the mountain, Yamauba, and the wild boy, Kaidomaru. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Dip... More
Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta...
Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta...
Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]
Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]
Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]
Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Onnna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii
Print shows a scene in a public bathhouse where several women are bathing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 section... More
Ghyakurakan segaki, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a "parody of words (mother breast feeding her child beneath a mosquito net and the words for the demons being cast out during the festival)." Source: Nichibunken. Title and other descriptive informa... More
[Elderly Japanese woman trudges up a mountain path towards her home]
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing a woman walking towards a gate surrounded by trees and a stream. Illus. in: Bunpō gafu, [Osaka] ; [Kyoto], [1807?]-<1811?-. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : sha... More
[Elderly Japanese woman trudges up a mountain path towards her home]
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing a woman walking towards a gate surrounded by trees and a stream. Illus. in: Bunpō gafu, [Osaka] ; [Kyoto], [1807?]-<1811?-. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : sha... More
Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing
Prints show views of Edo, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format... More
Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing
Prints show views of Edo, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format... More
Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing
Prints show views of Edo, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format... More
Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prfo...
Prints show views of Edo, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format... More
[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]
Each illustration, including front of envelope, is signed with Japanese characters and chops. Japanese text appears in the left and right margins of the three printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More
[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]
Each illustration, including front of envelope, is signed with Japanese characters and chops. Japanese text appears in the left and right margins of the three printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More
[John James Audubon, bird naturalist] - Ukiyo e print
Japanese print shows Audubon discovering that his work was eaten by a rat.
Dōguya jinza hōkaibō bōkon shimobe gunsuke, Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Print shows three actors, two with swords and one who appears to be an evil spirit. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in... More
Fūryū genji yuki no nagame, Japan Andō Hiroshige
Ukiyo-e triptych print showing a snowy landscape with a woman brandishing a broom and a man holding an umbrella. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists i... More
[Geishas giving a concert] - Public domain dedication image
Ukiyo-e print illustration shows geishas playing the shamisen and the kokyū as a matron provides candlelight and another geisha serves tea. Page in: Kakuchū en[pu]. [Japan : s.n., not before 1806]. Date from T... More
[Geishas giving a concert] - Public domain dedication image
Ukiyo-e print illustration shows geishas playing the shamisen and the kokyū as a matron provides candlelight and another geisha serves tea. Page in: Kakuchū en[pu]. [Japan : s.n., not before 1806]. Date from T... More
Tōkyō Takanawa kaigan jōkisha tetsudō hashiriyuki no sen zu
Japanese triptych print shows steam railroad along the seashore, Tokyo, Japan.
Kasamori osen to kyaku, Shunsh Katsukawa
Print shows a man, holding a mirror, sitting on a bench and a woman standing behind him on the bench, fixing her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More
Tōkyō meishō Takanawa no shinkei - Ukiyo e print
Japanese triptych print showing a busy street with people walking; riding in carriages, on horseback, and in a litter; many small and large boats sail in a sea; the sun rises in the background. Signature: Hiro... More
Tōkyō meishō Takanawa no shinkei - Ukiyo e print
Japanese triptych print showing a busy street with people walking; riding in carriages, on horseback, and in a litter; many small and large boats sail in a sea; the sun rises in the background. Signature: Hiro... More
Tōkyō meishō Takanawa no shinkei - Ukiyo e print
Japanese triptych print showing a busy street with people walking; riding in carriages, on horseback, and in a litter; many small and large boats sail in a sea; the sun rises in the background. Signature: Hiro... More
Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagaw...
Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto, possibly from the popular play known as Benten Kozō, Tenjuku Tokubei, perhaps the adventurer/magician, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Title and other... More
Shi-yosiwara edochō Kinpeirō - Public domain image related to music pr...
Print shows several women, in a large room, playing shamisens and a koto. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 section... More
Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Oroshiya - Ukiyo e print
Japanese print shows a man seated in a chair playing an accordian and a woman with a horn standing next to him. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Monkey 12. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga (Pictu... More