1740s Japanese Woodblock Prints

A Beauty Behind a Screen

About 1750

Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

A Courtesan Holding a Lantern and a Fan

c. 1745

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

Actor Segawa Kikunojō as Mizue Gozen

1745

Hand-colored woodblock print

An Unidentified Actor Stands with an Open Fan in His Hand

1743–1812

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Battledore and shuttlecock

c. 1748

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

Beauty and Young Man Riding an Ox (parody of Kyoyu and Sobu?)

c. 1740s

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

Courtesan Arranging Flowers with Sleeping Kamuro

c. 1740-1750

Hand-colored woodblock print

Courtesan of Osaka and Her Attendant, left sheet of a triptych of beauties of the three capitals (Sanpukutsui Osaka hidari)

c. 1745

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

Courtesan Reading a Letter

c. 1745

Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban, urushi-e

Courtesan Reading a Poem Slip Tied to Flowers in a Vase

mid-1740s

color woodblock print

Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku - A Set of Three (Ryogoku suzumi sanpukutsui)

c. 1752

Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, benizuri-e

Gakō senran

画𫝓潜覧

1740

Woodblock-printed book; 6 vols.

Interior Scene

c. 1746–92

color woodblock print

Man in Thatched Hut Viewing the Moon

c. 1740s

Woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e

Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyama Temple with Eight Views of Lake Biwa (uki-e)

c. 1744-1748

Hand-colored woodblock print (uki-e, perspective print)

Oiso no Tora and Shosho Playing Instruments

1746

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Picture Book: Thousand-Year Mountain? (Ehon Chitoseyama? 絵本千年山?

1740

Woodblock print; ink on paper

Puppeteers - A Set of Three (Ayatsuri sanpukutsui)

c. 1752

Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, benizuri-e

Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a puppeteer

c. 1749

Color woodblock print; chuban (left half of a horizontal oban), benizuri-e

Set of Three, Love Birds in Three Kinds of Music (Sampukutsui hiyoku no san kyoku)

c. 1748

Color woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, benizuri-e

Sleeping Young Woman with Mt. Fuji Above

c. 1740s

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, sumizuri-e

Standing Geisha

c. 1748

Hand-colored woodblock print; urushi-e, vertical oban diptych

Tea House Beside the Kamo River in Kyoto

1740s

color woodblock print

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo I as Sukeroku

c. 1749

Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, urushi-e

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Fuwa Banzaemon in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748

1748

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

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I holding a puppet of the Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

c. 1740s

Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, sumizuri-e

The Actor Onoye Matsusuke as a Ronin

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a young man

c. 1742

Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e, beni-e

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a young man holding an umbrella and a lantern

c. 1748

Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban, beni-e

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu

c. 1748

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

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kumenosuke and Takinaka Hidematsu I as Oume, from "Sharing an Umbrella: A Triptych (Aigasa sanpukutsui)"

c. 1745

Color woodblock print; center sheet of hosoban triptych, benizuri-e

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I looking at a guidebook to the pleasure quarters

c. 1750

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

The Actor Segawa Kichiji as a Daimyo's Young Son, and Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Samurai Attendant

ca. 1750

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as a courtesan

c. 1747

Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, beni-e

The Actor Yoshizawa Ayame II as Hotoke Gozen in the play "Onna Monji Heike Monogatari," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1748

1748

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Arashi Koroku I as Makomo no Mae and Ichikawa Uzaemon VIII as Taira no Koremochi in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747

1747

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo II as Mushanosuke, Segawa Kikunojo I as Ochiyo, and Matsushima Kichisaburo as Ochiyo's spirit in the play "Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744

1744

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Ichimura Kamezo I as Yosaku and Arashi Tominosuke I as Koman

c. 1754

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon VIII as Oguri Hangan and Segawa Kikunojo I as Terute no Mae in the play "Mangetsu Oguri Yakata," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eighth month, 1747

1747

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I dressed as mendicant monks (komuso)

c. 1749

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

The Actors Otani Oniji I as Soga no Goro and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as the sister of Yoshinaka in the play "Fuji no Yuki Mitsugi Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1746

1746

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Otani Ryuzaemon II as Kajiwara Genta and Arashi Tominosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Tamagushi Yosooi Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1747

1747

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu (right), Nakamura Kiyosaburo (center right), Sanogawa Senzo (center left), and Nakamura Kumetaro (left)

c. 1750

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I and Segawa Kikunojo I as lovers under an umbrella

c. 1740s

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

The Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Soga no Goro and Ikushima Daikichi II as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748

1748

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

The Fourth Month (Shigatsu), from an untitled series of twelve months

c. 1750

Color woodblock print; half hosoban, benizuri-e

The Hobby Horse Dance (harugoma odori)

c. 1750

Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

The Moving Brush in "Rough" Painting (Unpitsu soga)

運筆麁画

1749

Set of three woodblock printed books; ink on paper

Two Cranes and a Plum Tree

ca.1741 to ca.1764

Print

Untitled

ca.1740

Print

Woman Looking at a Hanging Scroll

c. 1740s

color woodblock print

Woman Writing a Letter in Front of a Screen

early 1740s

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

Young Couple in Front of a Screen

c. 1748

Color woodblock print; hosoban, benizuri-e

Young Woman after a Bath

c. 1745

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

Young Woman with Umbrella

c. 1740s

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

Youth Carrying a Lantern and an Umbrella

1740s

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