1730s Japanese Woodblock Prints

A Boy Singer

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

A Flower Vendor

1737-38

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban

A Woman Peddler of Needles and Thread

c. 1730

Hand-colored woodblock print; koban, beni-e

Actor as a Woman Standing by a Mirror Stand

ca. 1735

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (Urushi-e)

Battle of Ichi–no–tani, March 21, 1184

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Beauty Carrying a Wedding Decoration (right sheet of hosoban diptych)

c. 1735

Hand-colored woodblock print; right sheet of hosoban diptych, urushi-e

Courtesan Holding a Long Pipe

c. 1743

Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e

Courtesan Riding a Carp (parody of the Daoist Immortal Kinko [Chinese: Qin Gao])

c. 1730s

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Courtesan Walking

1739

From a woodblock printed book (sumizuri-e), ink on paper

Ehon ike no kokoro (pair has old stickers #707)

1739

Woodblock printed book, two volumes

Five Courtesans

18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Flower Wagon

c. 1730

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Fusō gafu

扶桑画譜

1735

Woodblock-printed book; 5 vols.

Hakuba no Sechie

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Hollyhocks and Peacocks (Aoi ni kujaku)

early 1730s

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Ichimura Manzo as Yatsushi Goro and Segawa Kikujiro as Yatsushi Shosho

ca. 1745

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Landscape; Showing Water Festival with Lanterns

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

New Year's entertainers before standing screen of tiger

Ono no Dofu as a Young Man Watching a Frog Jumping at a Willow Branch

Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

Parody of Murasaki, from "Lavender" (Wakamurasaki), Chapter 5 of The Tale of Genji

18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Perspective Print: Shinobazu Pond

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Plum Tree in Blossom

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Portraits of Twenty-eight Metal Artists

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Reclining Beauty with Shamisen

first half of the 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Saigyo Hoshi

1730s

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Saigyo Hoshi gazing at Mt. Fuji

c. 1730s

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Summer Willow in the Breeze

ca. 1748

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Actor Anegawa Chiyosaburo from Kyoto

1734

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Actor Ogino Isaburō as an Itinerant Flower Vendor

ca. 1738

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu

c. 1743

Hand-colored woodblock print; hashira-e, urushi-e

The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I

c. 1731

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro I as Soga no Juro

c. 1732

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as Kuzunoha

c. 1737

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Actors Anegawa Shinshiro I and Segawa Kikunojo I

c. 1733

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Onio Shinzaemon and Ichikawa Masugoro as Soga no Goro in the play "Furiwake-gami Hatsugai Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1735

1735

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, beni-e

The Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Oshichi and Sanjo Kantaro II as Kichisaburo in the play "Shochikubai Kongen Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the third month, 1732

1732

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Fifth Month

ca. 1748

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Overgrowth of Weeds, No. 15 from the series "Genji in Fifty-four Sheets (Genji gojuyonmai no uchi)"

c. 1735

Hand-colored woodblock print; horizontal hosoban, beni-e

The Princess Style (Ohimesama-fu)

c. 1735

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

The Shop of Sanogawa Ichimatsu

c. 1743

Color woodblock print; oban yoko-e, benizuri-e

The Yoshiwara in Edo - A Set of Three (Edo Yoshiwara sanpukutsui)

c. 1736/44

Hand-colored woodblock print; left sheet of toku-oban triptych, beni-e

Two Geishas Out Walking

1739–1820

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Two Girls Catching Fireflies

first half of the 18th century

Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

Untitled

20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Woman (Bijin) Looking at the Moon's Reflection, from the series Mu Tamagawa

mid-1700s

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Young Woman and Hotei

c. 1741

Hand-colored woodblock print; wide hashira-e, sumizuri-e

Young Woman Reading Tanzaku Tied to a Cherry Tree

c. 1741

Hand-colored woodblock print; kakemono-e, urushi-e