1790s Japanese Woodblock Prints

'The Games of the Five Festivals: twisting the shadow lantern'

ca. 1790-1799

Print

'The hour of the cock, Servants from a Samurai mansion'

1798-1804

Print

"Mu," page from "Picture Book of the Music of Pines Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe)"

1795

Color woodblock print; koban; page from illustrated book

A Banquet Scene

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych

A Beauty

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

A Beauty

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

A Box at the Kabuki Theater, from the illustrated book "Guide to the Actors' Dressing Rooms (Yakusha gakuya tsu)"

spring, 1799

Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book

A Courtesan and her Attendant

c. 1803/04

Color woodblock print; naga-oban

A Flower of the Ōgiya (Ōgiya uchi Hana) [= the courtesan Hanaōgi], from the series Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (Tōji zensei bijin zoroe)

c. 1794 (Kansei 6)

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

A Low Class Prostitute (Gun [teppo]), from the series “Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter" ("Hokkoku goshiki-zumi")

c. 1794/95

Color woodblock print; oban

A parody of courtesans on display at the Ogiya (Ogiya mise yatsushi)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

A Party of Geisha in a Suzumi-bune (Second Scene of a Boating Party)

ca. 1796

Second sheet of a pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

A princess traveling with her attendants descends from a palanquin

c. 1801/04

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

A Public Bath House

c. 1790s

Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban triptych

A seaside outing

c. 1801/04

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase): Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya in Procession (Tamaya Hanamurasaki dochu no zu)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; oban

A Selection of Beauty from the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bisen awase): Misayama of the Chojiya in Night Dress (Tokogi no zu - Chojiya Misayama)

c. 1796

Color woodblock print; oban

A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi rokkasen): Bishop Henjo

c. 1798

Color woodblock print; oban

A Selection of Six Flowers - A Parody Rokkasen (Yatsushi Rokkasen): Ono no Komachi

c. 1798

Color woodblock print; oban

A Set of Three Romantic Journeys (Michiyuki sanpuku tsui)

c. 1799

Color woodblock print; sheet of oban triptych

A Tale of Mom and Dad in Olden Times

1793

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

A Thousand Autumns, Ten Thousand Years on Tokiwa Bridge

early 1790s

color woodblock print

A Windy Day under the Cherry Trees

c. 1797

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

A Woman Kneeling

Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

A Young Girl Offering Tea to Another Woman

c. 1797

Color woodblock print; oban

Abalone Diver Nursing a Child, center sheet of incomplete triptych

c. 1797-98 (Kansei 9-10)

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

Act Eleven from the series "The Chushingura Drama Parodied by Famous Beauties (Komei bijin mitate Chushingura Junimai Kuzuki)"

c. 1794/95

Color woodblock prints; oban diptych

Act Eleven: Night Raid on Moronao's Mansion from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act Five: Yamazaki Highway from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; aiban

Act Four: Enya Hangan's Castle from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act One: Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act Seven, from the series "Treasury of the Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (Shichi-damme)"

c. 1801/02

Color woodblock print, oban

Act Seven: The Ichiriki Teahouse from the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act Six from the series Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chūshingura) Parodied by Famous Beauties: A Set of Twelve Prints (Komei bijin mitate Chūshingura, junimai tsuzuki)

Late Edo period, circa 1794-1795

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"

Act Three: The Quarrel Scene from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act Two: The Quarters of Momonoi Wakasanosuke from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

c. 1795

Color woodblock print; koban

Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers As Portrayed by Famous Beauties in Twelve Leaves

1794–95

color woodblock print

Activities of the Twelve Months

Late 1790s

Eleven hanging scrolls from a set of twelve; ink and color on silk

Actor Arashi Hinasuke I as the Wrestler Tatsugadake

1792

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Actor Arashi Ryûzô II as Hachijô in “Pillar Calendar of the Genji and Heike Clans” (“Gempei hashira-goyomi”)

About 1795

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Actor Bandō Mitsugorō II as Ishii Genzō

1794

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper with mica

Actor Ichikawa Komazô II as Sukeroku

About 1793 or about 1797

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga Jūrō

1794

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper with mica

Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as a Courtesan's Attendant

1794–95

Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Actor Nakamura Kumetaro II as Minato, the Wife of Yura Hyogonosuke

1794–95

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Actor Nakamura Noshio II as Tonase in “Model for Kana Calligraphy: Treasury of the 47 Loyal Retainers” (“Kanadehon chûshingura”)

About 1795

Color woodblock print; ôban

Actor Onoe Matsusuke as Ōboshi Yuranosuke

1795

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Actor Sakakiyama Sangoro II as Michinaga's Daughter Princess Otae

1794–95

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

After the Bath, from an untitled series of everyday scenes

c. 1799-1800 (Kansei 11-12)

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

An Actor of Woman's Roles

1791

Color woodblock print; hosoban

An Arrangement of Morning Glories

c. 1796

Color woodblock print; chuban

An Arrangement of Shuro Palm Leaves in a Bronze Jar

c. 1796

Color woodblock print; aiban

An Arrangement of Valerian and Chinese Bell Flowers

c. 1796

Color woodblock print; aiban

An Artisan’s Shop, from the album The Mist of Sandara (Sandara kasumi)

1798

Color woodblock print; album plate

An Elegant Series of Amulet Paintings (Furyu nanatsume e awase): Rabbit and Cock

n.d.

Color woodblock print; oban

An Imperial Carriage

c. 1801/04

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

An Old Man and Attendants Watching the Sugoroku Game

1799

Color woodblock print; surimono

Appearing Again: Naniwaya Okita, from the series “Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets" ("Komei bijin rokkasen")

c. 1795/96

Color woodblock print; oban

Arashi Ryūzō I as Ishibe Kinkichi in the Play "Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga"

1794

Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper

Artist, Block Carver, Applying Sizing (Eshi, hangashi, dosa-biki), from the series The Cultivation of Brocade Prints, a Famous Product of Edo (Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku)

About 1803

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych