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Katsukawa Shunchō - [Ōgiya hanaōgi yujo] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Hanaōgi, a courtesan, full-length, standing near a large city gate, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: H... More

Hashi no ue no bijin to kodomo, Eishi Hosoda

Print shows a woman, holding a parasol, walking with a young boy, crossing a bridge. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae ... More

U to shirasagi, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a cormorant catching a fish and two white herons. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awas... More

Oharame, Head and Shoulders Portrait - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman carrying bundle sticks on her head. The bundle appears to be bound by a small cut-out figure in the shape of a man. Title and other descriptive information... More

Machiya no nyōbō, Tsukimaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Aiban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Numazu, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows two women(?) carrying baskets and dragging clam(?) rakes as they walk along the shore. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. F... More

Kudanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a man (possibly Yuranosuke) and two women (possibly Tonase and her step-daughter Konami, or Oishi, wife of Yuranosuke) in a room with doorway to the outside in the background. Title and other descri... More

Kyaku no haori o motsu yūjo - Public domain portrait drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Tabakoire - Public domain drawing - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a tobacco pouch. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kogata Nishikie Surimono. Attributed to: Issai. Forms part of: Ja... More

Sunshū ejiri, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several wayfarers struggling against a strong wind that is blowing away hats and papers; Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Shonin tozan - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows pilgrims climbing mountainside trail toward cave filled with arriving pilgrims.

Ichimonjiya saibei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print showing an actor in the role of Ichimonjiya Saibei standing next to a palanquin. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one pan... More

Ryōgokubashi Ōkawabata, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows pedestrians and porters crossing the Ryōgoku Bridge with many boats on the river and view of vendor stands in foreground along the river bank. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nic... More

Igirisujin Yokohama ni orimono irowake no zu

Japanese print shows a merchant examining cloth which possibly reminds him of his wife and brings to mind her portrait hanging in the upper left corner.

Chiryū, Utagawa Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prfor...

Print shows men in a field with horses at the Chiryū station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tōk... More

Yoru no karasaki no matsu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a small boat with a smoky lantern approaching a grove of Karasaki pine trees on Lake Biwa. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.... More

Keijō rōhei gekitai no shinzu - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows Japanese soldiers preparing for assault on Russian troops near Haicheng, China, possibly the battle of Hsimucheng on July 31, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. Title and other descriptive informa... More

Moronobu Hishikawa - [Two scenes related to the Soga family]

Print shows in scene on the left, three warriors with bow and arrows hunting deer, one warrior has fallen off his horse; in scene on the right, a warrior is riding backwards on a wild boar with retainers chasin... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Tsukiyo ni sumō o miru onna

Print shows four women, some with breasts exposed, watching a group of men watching two men in a sumo wrestling match. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Washū nyoirindō kassen, Katsukawa Shuntei - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a battle scene along the coastline of a bay. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (1454a), ... More

Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune.

Four actors (right to left): Kurḡoda Ukinaga, Saitogo Kunitake and Onna Gyōja, and Nagata no Tarō Nagamune. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Soga no taimen - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows actors portraying the official Kudō Suketsune, a warrior, the two Soga brothers, and a woman in a Soga kabuki play.

Yodaime iwai hanshirō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing at the edge of a pond, facing left, portraying a female role. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... 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

Sato Masakiyo chosen ni ei mei o kagayakasu zu

Japanese triptych print shows Sato Masakiyo with horse and page, warriors on a beach, and warriors leading a tiger across water, with two large ships anchored offshore. Title and other descriptive information c... More

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Print shows three actors in a line, the one in the middle is wearing oversized garments, which are being pulled to the right and left by the other two actors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... 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 eight printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More

[Tanabata] / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese woman carrying lantern across bridge. Public domain scan of 1910s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[American sailor drinking] - Public domain dedication image

An American sailor, standing, holding a bottle in one hand while drinking from a glass. Inscription describes the American fleet on January 1, 1854 as seen through the eyes of an individual named Hachiromaro.

Mitanoshi to Yamauba, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows the characters of Yamauba, an old woman who lives in the mountains, and Mitanoshi, who appears to be an old priest or monk, in a shosagoto dance routine with a rabbit and a deer competing in a feat ... More

Kiyomizu komachi, Eizan Kikukawa - Ukiyo e print

Full-length view of the poet Ono no Komachi (ca. ninth century). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Use e... More

Toshinobu Okumura - [Oman the seller of cosmetics]

Print shows Oman, a peddler selling cosmetics, with a large box strapped to his/her back. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Torii Kiyonobu II - Ichikawa monnosuke - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms part of: the H. Irving Olds colle... More

[Ra (Usumono) gauze weave] - Public domain textile drawing

Design drawings for kimonos on fabric. Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (... More

[Violets, arrow arum(?), and primrose], Yasukuni Tachibana

Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Ehon noyamagusa : Illustrated book of mountain grasses. Format:... More

Yatsushi [shi or hi?]chōbō - Public domain drawing

Print shows a person (usually depicted as a courtesan) possibly asleep while riding on the back of a crane. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Gov. Tryon's expedition to Danbury, 1777.

Scale ca. 1:80,000. Title in pencil. Alternate title from P. L. Phillips' A list of maps of America: Map of the route of Gen. William Tryon's expedition to Danbury. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has w... More

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing right, holding a piece of cloth around his neck. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Hanetsuki no danjo, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a young man lifting a young woman who is holding aloft a badminton paddle. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hashi... More

Hatsuhinode, Eishōsai Chōki - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman standing on a hillside looking out over the sea at the sunrise. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: S... More

[Flower or vegetable in a flowerpot]

Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Libra... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Gi. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a woman reading a letter and another woman standing behind a low screen, reading over her shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Fujisawa - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows travelers resting at a stopping point in Fujisawa on the Tōkaidō Road.

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows three people (Lady Kaoyo, Moronō, and either Wakasanosuke or Enya Hangan) next to a large trunk representing the treasury. A scene from act one of the play Chūshingura or revenge of the 47 Rōnin. Ti... More

Shiokumi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three women with buckets suspended from shoulder poles gathering salt from the sea with the sun setting behind them.

Nihonbashi yori fuji o miru zu - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows pedestrians on a high-arched bridge over the Nihonbashi River with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Onoe kikugorō to umebachi - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Tsurube ni uguisu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a bird perched on the edge of a square bucket hanging by a rope. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to: Gyōshin.... More

Hakone, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows travelers on the mountain pass at the Hakone station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series:... More

Akasaka, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers, including several with lanterns, passing between two trees at night under a crescent moon near the Akasaka station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

Fukagawa hachimangū keidai, Utagawa Kuniteru - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a torii and many people on the grounds of the Tomioka Hachiman shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series:... More

Momiji to onna, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows a woman holding three rolls of cloth or paper standing beneath a maple tree next to a stream. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

Otokodate harukoma no yoshiro - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Amerikajin no zu - pansei nokamato - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows two American men baking bread. Signature: Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 80; 47623a. Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yo... More

Saruwaka-cho Kogiku - Public domain portrait drawing

Ukiyo-e print showing a beautiful woman, Kogiku, looking at photographic portraits (cartes de visite), possibly of her admirers. Photography was so new in Japan when this print was created that the artist is al... More

Sumiyoshi no meigetsu, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a person wrapped in a flowing kimono standing beneath a maple tree at Sumiyoshi. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ... More

Bunbuku chagama, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a raccoon wearing clothes and leaning on a table in a room with a large round window and a teapot heating nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More

[Buyō tsukuda-jima], depicting Mount Fuji

Print shows several small boats poling toward Tsukudajima, an island, and one larger boat loaded with produce headed toward the mainland, with distant view of Mount Fuji.

[Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province]

Print shows porters carrying bundles and sedan chairs, and travelers departing at dawn, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-s... More

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows a view across a marsh with a grove of trees on the left and the red roofs of low buildings in the center and on the right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored E... More

Japanese musician, seated, playing shakuhachi flute, Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese (artist nationality) painter, designer of wood block prints, and illustrator (artist role) Verso: (in pencil) u. l.: Spaeth - Munich / Aug. 1930 / Mks. 12. - = $3.00; l. l.: C575/551 [and] 004215.20 (u... More

Niwa Tokei - Nodate no dōgu - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows the necessary equipment for celebrating a small tea ceremony at a picnic. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full Obo... 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

Takanawa tetsudō jōkisha no zenzu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows pedestrians on foot, travelers on the steam railroad, and crossing a bridge at Takanawa. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. T... More

Kinhyōshi yōrin, hero of the Suikoden

Kinhyōshi yōrin, hero of the Suikoden. Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kusunoki masashige chihayajō rōjō no zu, Yoshifuji Utagawa

Print shows pedestrians bowing in greeting to others on roadways leading to a walled city across a river, also several porters carrying bundles into the city. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

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

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

Peri raikō - Public domain drawing

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

Rikka o nagameru san bijin - Public domain dedication image

Print shows three women admiring the arrangements of plants in a large pot.

Naniwa no bessō akebono no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tōto ochanomizu / Hiroshige ga. - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji from the Tea-Water Canal in Tokyo, with an enclosed water conduit traversing the canal and boats laden with goods passing under the conduit. Title and other descriptive... More

Hakata kojorō kezori kuemon komachiya sōshichi

Print shows two actors on board a ship and one in the water; portraying Hakata Kojurō, the smuggler or pirate, Kezori Kuemon, and the merchant, Komachiya Sōshichi. Title and other descriptive information compil... More

[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni torai su]

Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel; map of the coast of Soshu in left panel; various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels. Diptych matted in 2 sections: 2a (rig... More

Nakano chō no sakura - Public domain scan / print

Print shows three women, full-length portrait, standing, each with a different animal represented on their kimono, on the left should be a Chinese lion, center should be a tiger, and on the right is a turtle.

Japan makes Russia disgorge her brave threats of days before the war

Print shows a Japanese soldier chocking a Russian officer causing him to vomit cannons, rifles, and battleships.

Nihonbashi sinagawa kawasaki - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows scenes from the first three stations on the Tōkaidō Road (Nihonbashi, Shinagawa, and Kawasaki): people with baskets, possibly gathering clams, cherry blossoms, and fish in trays.

Katsukawa Shunzan - ueno no hanami - Ukiyo e print

Print shows groups of women viewing cherry blossoms at the park in Ueno. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: two panels of a verti... 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 six printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935. F... More

Tōkyō Takanawa kaigan jōkisha tetsudō hashiriyuki no sen zu

Japanese triptych print shows steam railroad along the seashore, Tokyo, Japan.

Sato Masakiyo chosen ni ei mei o kagayakasu zu

Gaikokujin sen no uchi: jōkisen - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print showing a Japanese man and boy standing on the shore of a harbor in which is docked an American steamship, possibly Commodore Perry's ship. Print created by either Hiroshige II or Hiroshige III.... More

Igami no gonta gonta nyōbō kosen shūme kokingo

Print shows a scene from the play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, with actors playing Igami no Gonta, his wife Kosen, the servant Kokingo, and another person. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More

Ikaiei hyakushaku gake hōdai secchū daikōgeki

Print shows a Japanese officer on horseback fighting with many Chinese soldiers near Weihaiwei during a snowstorm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

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