3,099 Ukiyo e Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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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 drawing

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prfo...

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain city architecture drawing

[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]

Meiyo migi ni tekinashi hidarijingorō, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

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

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (2122a), center (2122b), right (2122c). Format: vertical Oban Nish... More

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Kyō kudari osagawa tsuneyoshi [to] ichimura kamezō no soga no jūrō

Print shows two actors, one portraying a woman and the other in the role of one of the Soga brothers. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Gentoku uma o odorashite tankei o koeru zu

Print shows Liu Bei (Xuande) on horseback struggling to cross the swiftly flowing Caoqi river. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptyc... More

Kita-Amerika dai gasshukoku - jokan shōzō no utsushi

Japanese print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of an American naval commander; includes untranslated text of vocabulary.

Taikenmon genpei kassen no zu - Public domain scan of drawing

Print shows a battle scene involving mostly cavalry with some hand-to-hand combat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2... More

Toso o nomu kanjo - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Chuban Nishikie Surimono. Shunkyo Haikai Surimono. Calendar Print: Year of the Dog.... More

[Kazusa Kanōzan] / Hiroshige-ga.

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji across Yedo Bay seen from Rokusozan, Kazusa, with a rural landscape including a large evergreen tree, cherry blossoms, a torii, people, and a horse in the foreground. (... More

Godaime matsumoto kōshirō no kudō saemon no suke

Print shows actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V, full-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing geta, standing in a courtyard. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Kusunoki rōjō no zu, Shunk Katsukawa

Print shows the samurai Kusunoki and followers defending the castle at Akasaka. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 s... More

Koishikawa yuki no ashita - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows several women and a man viewing a snowy landscape with Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Fro... 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 ten printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935. F... More

[Kabuki scene of early photography] / Yoshiiku.

Triptych shows four actors: two men on the left, a man in the center holding a book and some prints or photographs, and a woman on the right standing with a large camera behind her. Triptych matted in 3 sectio... 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

Gokakoku ... gankirō ni oite sakamori no zu

Japanese triptych print shows visitors from several nations enjoying a party in the Fan Room of the Gankirō. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Engraving attributed to: Hori Take. Seal date: Monkey 12. Triptych ... More

Buruburu taishō - Public domain drawing

Print shows a jagged-edged depiction of a man on horseback, holding raised sword. Verbal puns. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From ... More

Tōkyō Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendō ōfuku jōkitetsudō no zu

Japanese triptych print shows trains at station and traveling along tracks through the city and landscape. Triptych matted separately in 3 sections: right (23a), center (23b), left (23c). Annotations, stamps, ... More

Hanaarashi, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain drawing

Print shows on the left, two women consoling a third woman, in the center, one woman lifting another woman so she can attach a slip of paper to tree branch, and on the right, a woman standing on a bucket and ho... More

Kawanakajima no kassen - Public domain image related to music prforman...

Print shows two armies of cavalry engaged in a battle with swordsmen and archers on horseback. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych... More

Sanjō Kokaji no manebigoto zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows three actors as warrior/metalworkers hammering a sword. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: lef... More

Genji Monogatari Emaki - Yume no ukihashi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Floating bridge of dreams. The poem in the image is a pun on the last chapter of Genji. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the serie... More

Yokohama ijin yashiki no zu - Public domain engraving

Japanese print shows a kitchen where food is being prepared and of adjoining rooms, in one room a man is getting a shave, in a foreign settlement house in Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Engrav... More

Ebisuko, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows indoor scene with several women, two children, and two men, eating. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 s... More

Oyone magoshichi taheiji, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two warriors and a woman around a fire, one warrior appears to be protecting the woman from the other warrior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Matsumoto kōshirō, iwaya hanshirō, nakamura shikan

Print shows two actors on the shoulders of a giant and the third actor leaping onto the giant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forma... More

Dewa chōkaisan, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows snowcapped mountains above an inlet where boats are moored. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Shokoku meish... More

Rakuda no zu, Utagawa Kuniyasu - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows musicians with two camels. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 sections: left (1511a), right (1511b). Form... More

Rakuda no zu, Utagawa Kuniyasu - Public domain scan of drawing

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several actors in various costume, posture, and roles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left... More

[The procession] / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock prin...

Japanese women parading with lanterns and woman in sedan chair. No copyright renewal. Signed in pencil.

Kuruma zukushi - Public domain carriage drawing

Japanese print shows various forms of transportation employed by people, including a train, horse-drawn carriage, horse-drawn trolley, rickshaw, bicycle, hand-drawn carts. Man drawing water from a well, woman w... More

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

[Fiddlehead fern]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Ukiyo-e print illustration for haiku shows with fiddlehead ferns sprouting from the ground. Page in: Zoku Koya bunko. Kōto [Edo] : Maekawa Rokuzaemon ... [and 5 others] ; Bishū [Nagoya] : Fūgetsu Magosuke, [179... More

Bankoku nyūsen sugoroku, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print showing a sailing ship with an American flag in a harbor; illustrated sheet from Sugoroku game, which is similar to backgammon. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of pri... More

Bankoku nyūsen sugoroku, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Okumura masanobu no kakejiku o miru yūjo

Print shows an interior scene with two courtesans admiring a screen painting of an actor or beautiful woman by the painter Okumura Masanobu. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

[Nishiki brocade with cherry blossoms and wave designs on red backgrou...

Drawing shows stylized flower (cherry blossom) designs for kimonos. Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: J... More

[A beauty with an umbrella], Kiyomasu Torii

Print shows the actor Nakamura Sanya as a young woman standing beneath an umbrella, wearing a head covering and geta. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[A large bull or ox] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

[A willing letter writer] - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man with two women, one of the women is writing a letter. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Engawa no wakai danjo, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Chuban Nishikie. Signed Suzuki Harunobu. Modern Reproduction, but apparently NOT ba... More

Sawamura Sōjūrō no Soga no Jūrō to Ichikawa Yaozō no Soga no Gorō

Print shows two actors (possibly Sawamura Sōjūrō, 1685-1756, and Ichikawa Yaozō) in the roles of two brothers who attempt to revenge their father's murder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Ni... More

Kiyomitsu Torii - Yukidama o tsukuru musume

Print shows a young woman, wearing high geta and a kimono with hat designs, rolling a large snowball. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006... More

Ichikawa danzō no shinozuka gorō [to] sakata hangorō no omo

Print shows two actors struggling over an anchor. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: R. Leices... More

Iwai hanshirō no shirabyōshi - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Iwai Hanshirō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a shirabyōshi dancer (as a woman dressed as a man). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Taira no Kanemori, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a mother reclining next to her child and an elderly woman sitting nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series:... More

Ōeyama monogatari, Shigemasa Kitao - Ukiyo e print

Print shows at the top, two warriors setting out in pursuit of a young woman whom they catch up to at the bottom of the print. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print... More

Kanda sairei no dashi no gangu o hiku haha to ko

Print shows a woman holding a child who pulls a string attached to a toy float, and another child standing next to the float. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More

Yamashita kinsaku no senjichauri omiya - Ukiyo e print

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

Kamisuki - Public domain drawing - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a worker making paper by dipping the frame into a vat of water and pulp. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Kogata ... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie jūnidan kangen no zu

Print shows a long hall receding into the background for a perspective view, with eight women playing musical instruments arranged along the sides and in the rear is a woman playing a koto; in the foreground, o... More

Tako age suru danjo - Public domain drawing

Print shows a young man holding a string attached to a kite held by a young woman standing on a veranda above him. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

Satsuki hototogisu, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a young woman arranging blossoming branches, she has turned to look at a cuckoo as it passes her window. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialis... More

Sukeroku shirozak euri, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seiro niwaka kyogen : Comedy bursting from the green houses. Format: vertical Chuban ... More

Geta no yukitori, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman holding an umbrella while a female servant removes snow from her geta. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi mode... More

Hagi no tamagawa, Shunman Kubo - Public domain drawing

Print shows three women, one holding a lantern, looking at bushclover on the banks of the Tama River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Baika no nijo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

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

Fujidana no sanbijin, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women and a young boy walking beneath a wisteria arbor. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel from a set... More

Michiyuki tamagawa no dan - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows a man squatting next to a stream with a long piece of cloth in his hands, which he may be washing, and a woman standing next to him, also holding a long piece of cloth. They may be servants of the m... More

Hanami, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women and a young female student or attendant at the Yoshiwara looking at cherry blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005... More

Katsukawa Shunchō - Kaka no yūjo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a courtesan with two young attendants standing beneath a cherry tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban... More

Matsubaya uchi Utahime, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Utahime, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae Nishik... More

Hamayumi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman holding bow and arrows draped in a cloth, standing before a young boy.

Sotoori hime, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain print

Print shows the princess Sotoori catching a spider with a fan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Yatsuhi sanpukutsui : ... More

Naniwaya okita, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows Naniwaya Okita, a teahouse waitress, half-length portrait, turned to the left, carrying a bowl on a tray. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... More

Goshoguruma - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three female attendants next to a royal carriage, one seated, holding a pair of shoes.

Segawa tomisaburō [as yadorigi, wife of ogishi kurando]

Print shows Segawa Tomisaburō, an actor, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in the role of Yadorigi, the wife of Ogishi Kurando. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored... More

Chōkōsai Eisho - Tsuruya uchi tsurunou - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a courtesan with two attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seirō bijin awase : A series of beauties... More

Araihari. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two women hanging laundry. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Fujin tewaza jūnikō : Twelve occupations of ... More

Sandiaime bandō hikosaburō (no obiya chōmemon to) yodaime iwai hanshir...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms p... More

Yodanme, Forty Seven Rōnin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows an old man (possibly Yuranosuke), a woman (probably Lady Kawayo), and a young man (possibly Rikiya).

[Butterflies and moths] - Public domain drawing

Title devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to: Settso. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kudanme, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain image related to music prf...

Print shows a woman putting on a hat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Yatsushi chūshingura : A modern chūshingura. ... More

Zōshigaya miyage, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a man holding an infant and a woman holding a toy to distract or entertain the child. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From... More

Haha to musume to chinomigo - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms part of: R. Leicester Harmsworth collection. Forms part of: Japan... More

Ichikawa Dannosuke, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa, Danzō, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding cloth or paper in right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Kawasaki, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a group of people in a boat being ferried across a river. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Tōkaidō Road.... More

Hira no bosetsu, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows bird's-eye view of travelers on a roadway through a winter landscape with snow capped trees and mountains. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Mariko, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows two men sprawled on the floor at a rest stop in Mariko on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the ser... More

Yui, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows two men cleaning out a hut on the seashore by pushing shells(?) away from the entrance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. ... More

Yanagi ni shirasagi, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a white heron standing beneath a willow tree on the edge of a pond. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kogata Nishiki... More

Toyohiro Utagawa: Niwatori - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Sheet (orig. format unknown) Suminotan shukuzuri. Koban cut in half(?). Forms part ... More

Seta no sekisho - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows clusters of thatched-roof buildings, bridges spanning an inlet, boats in the harbor, during evening in Seta.

Sakanoshita, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, smoking a pipe, and a porter resting on the mountain pass through Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō Road; the porter gestures toward the view of mountains across the ravine. Title and other descript... More

Komatsu ni yamadori - Public domain drawing

Print shows wild birds and a young pine tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Aiban two-toned Sumizuri. Attributed ... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ichikawa Dannosuke no Tsunajo

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Dannosuke as Tsunajo sitting beneath a tree, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Verti... More

Niwa Tokei - Tsuru kame to takarabune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: full Obosho Nishikie Surimono, folded. Surimono for the celebration of cutting the long slee... More

Shichidaime ichikawa danjūrō no shimizu no kanja yoshitaka

Print shows Ichikawa Danjūrō VII, full-length portrait, facing slightly left, sitting on a sofa, in the role of a warrior, wild-eyed and clutching a bamboo staff. Title and other descriptive information compile... More

Moronobu utsushi torioi zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows two female street musicians wearing kimonos, geta, and large hats, and playing shamisens. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Son gokū - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a monkey on a cloud dressed as a samurai warrior.

Kira Yoshinaka - Jūichidanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows three Rōnin samurai attacking the entrance to Moronō's (Kira Yoshinaka) home. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the s... More

Yodanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu - Public domain drawing

Print shows three actors, two possibly represent royal envoys who are to deliver the message that Enya Hangan (Asano Naganori) is to committ seppuku, ritual suicide, the third man is possibly Hangan brandishin... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Sandanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows, at the entrance to a foot-bridge, a man (Kampei) with sword raised over his head, poised to strike, and standing next to him is a woman (Okaru), and lying on the ground is a man who is possibly one... More

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