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Yamashiro ōtani meganebashi, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the Megane Bridge spanning a river at Ōtani Temple, with blossoming trees, in the Yamashiro Province. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More

Azumabashi kinryūzan enbō, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

View of the Azuma Bridge, Kinryūzan Temple and the surrounding city, and Mount Fuji, seen from a boat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.... More

Ichi fuji ni taka san nasubi - Public domain drawing

Print shows five women, four men, and a child in a ferry; one man is poling the boat and one man is a porter seated at the back of the boat with baskets of eggplants, the women, child, and a man holding a falco... More

[Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiving first...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nisshinsensō shōraku gakai : Comics of the ... 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

East Lynne - Drawing. Public domain image.

M20146 U.S. Copyright Office "A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. (copyrighted)." Created by A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Keinen kachōgafu natsu no bu - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Keinen kachōgafu natsu no bu - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Keinen kachōgafu natsu no bu - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Haran rikkazu, Tsukimaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows plant in a pot. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to: Kitagawa Kikumaro. Format: Koban Nishikie. Forms part of:... More

Tamanoi - Public domain drawing - Ukiyo e print

The Dragon King and two princesses in a scene from the play "The Jewelled Well." Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Shikishiban N... More

Ōya tarō mitsukuni - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Ōya Tarō Mitsukuni watching a battle scene between armies of skeletons.

Igagoe dōchū sugoroku, Katsukawa Shuntei - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a fight scene from the play Igagoe Dōchū Sugoroku, with Watanabe Shizuma and Araki Mataemon fighting with Kawai Matagorō and many other men armed with pikes or halbreds at Iga Ueno. Title and other ... More

Igagoe dōchū sugoroku, Katsukawa Shuntei - Ukiyo e print

The land of the bluebird / / Bertha Lum.

Print shows two bluebirds flying down from tree with fairy children behind branches.

Sawamura Sōjūrō no Ichihōshi Ōtomo Hitatinosuke Yamatogawa Tomigorō no...

Sawamura Sojurō and Yamatogawa Tomigoro in the role of a samurai and his page who is offering him a cup of tea. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Yokohama ijin shōka shuen no zu, Sadahide Utagawa

Japanese print shows an English merchant seated at a table and being waited on by a Chinese man and a Thai cook during a banquet at a mercantile house in Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engrav... More

Uyōkanazawa hashōyakei - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

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

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men, probably actors, and a woman with a shoulder pole carrying two buckets.

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men, probably actors, and a woman with a shoulder pole carrying two buckets.

Raikō shitennō to tsuchigumo - Public domain drawing

Print shows an interior view of room with Minamoto Yorimitsu and another man at a Go gameboard as a demon crashes through the roof. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo ... More

Oshichi, Utagawa Kuniteru - Public domain portrait drawing

Image of the young maiden, Oshichi, who attempted arson out of love and was burned at the stake in 1683. She became a figure in plays with different story lines. Includes vignette image (koma-e) above her head ... More

Frost / Bertha Lum. - A painting of a tree in the snow

Frost on trees. Public domain scan of 1920s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of 1920s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions i... More

Blocking - shutting the mouth of Port Arthur

Print shows two Japanese sailors driving battleships like spikes through the lips of the mouth of the harbor at Lüshun (Port Arthur), China. Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive... More

[Portable siege ladder]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare. Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re... More

Typus arithmeticae. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The form of arithmetic, possibly muse of arithmetic, shown as woman standing between Boethius writing Arabic numerals and Pythagorus doing reckoning with counters. Illus. in: Margarita philosophica / Gregor Rei... More

De Terre motu. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Buildings moving and spire toppling in an earthquake. Illus. and text in: Margarita philosophica noua / Gregor Reisch. [Ex Argentoraco veteri, J. Gruningerus, 1515]. Published in: The tradition of science / Leo... More

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

A sachem of the Abenakee Nation rescuing an English officer from the I...

Print shows a Native chief holds back two Natives who were about to kill an Englishman. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, .... Boston : 1768, p. E2. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings an... 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Washi myōjin, Yajima Gogaku - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing a young man holding a rake with slips of paper attached as a portable shrine or possibly prayer offerings to Buddha; page patterned with blossoms. Title and other desc... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Godaime segawa kikunojō no koharu

Print shows the actor Segawa Kikunojō V portraying a woman, Koharu. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: probably the central panel... More

Uma ōji, Yajima Gogaku - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing beneath a tree, wearing kimono and geta, holding a large tray or cover, large pot or cistern overflowing next to the tree; page patterned with blossoms. Title... More

Inu meguro - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman, full-length, wearing kimono and geta, standing outside a small shop with thatched roof; page patterned with blossoms.

Ryōgokubashi no nōryō, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows a throng of men and women standing on or crossing the Ryōgoku Bridge during a festival or celebration. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

Yakusha no hanami, Hokushū Shunkōsai

Print shows four actors looking at a frog near a blossoming cherry tree; the two actors standing next to the tree may be Kataoka Nizaemon VII and, in the onnagata role, Fujikawa Tomokichi II. Title and other de... More

Yatsushi hangonko, Shigenobu Yanagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman looking at a small vase or incense burner on a table next to a letter on the floor. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-20... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川春扇) - Shiokumi

Print shows three women with buckets and shoulder poles gathering salt at dawn. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Oba... More

Kiku no tsuitate no mae no shuen

Print shows a man and three women slightly amused by another man's behavior at a drinking party. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. For... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Segawa kikunojō no hashihime (Genji Monogatari)

Print shows Segawa Kikunojō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing in front of a screen, facing front, in an onnagata role portraying Hashihime (Lady at the Bridge, chapter 45 of the Tale of Genji). Title an... More

Ume ni onagadori, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a magpie perched on a branch with plum blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Otanzaku-ban Nishikie. Adachi mod... More

Ōgiya yūgiri, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Yugiri, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with large fan on the left showing bust portrait of a woman wearing a large hat. Title and other descriptive information compiled b... More

Tomimoto no geisha, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie Vertical Diptych (Kakemono). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawing... More

[A person walking to the left, mostly obscured by an open parasol carr...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

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