1850s Japanese Woodblock Prints

“One-Legged Umbrella Monster” (Kasa ippon ashi)

1857

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); vertical chūban

(Houseboat and moon)

c. 1854-1859

Woodblock print

A Hot Spring Inn at Yumoto

1851

Print

A HUNDRED VIEWS OF FAMOUS PLACES IN THE VARIOUS PROVINCES, "KYOTO SHIJO YU SUZUMI"

Late Edo period, dated 1859

Ink on paper

Acrobats Beneath Cherry Trees: Spinning Tops and Balancing

1857

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

Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Sakura Tōgorō

1856

Color woodblock print

Actor Bandō Hikosaburō as Urashima

1859

Color woodblock print

Actors

1858

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

Actors

1847-52

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

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

1852

Color woodblock print; chuban

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

1852

Color woodblock print; chuban

Akashi

1855

Woodblock Print

Akashi, from the series Fashionable Genji (Furyū Genji)

1853

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

All Rivers Converge and Flow into the Sea

1857

Print

Allusion to the Character Okina

1855

Print

Allusion to the Character Sanbaso

1855

Print

Ancient Story of the Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom

1853

Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e

Asakusa Onmayagashi, from the series Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo)

浅草 御厩河岸 — 江戸名所道化尽

1859

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1857

Color woodblock print; ōban

Asakusa River, Great Riverbank, Miyato River (Asakusagawa Okawabata Miyatogawa), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Asazuma Punting Beneath a Willow Tree (surimono diptych)

朝妻舟図摺物

mid-19th century

Woodblock print diptych (surimono); ink and color on paper with metallic pigments

Autumn Moon over Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama shugetsu), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

1857

Color woodblock print; oban

Awa Province: Inner Bay at Kominato (Awa, Kominato uchiura), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)"

1853

Color woodblock print; oban

Awa Province: Naruto Whirlpools (Awa, Naruto no fuha), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)"

1855

Color woodblock print; oban

Azure-Winged Magpie, from Ōkyo gafu (Ōkyo Picture Book)

応挙画譜 — 尾長鳥

1850 (accordion-bound woodblock-printed picture book after Ōkyo's brush designs)

Accordion-style woodblock printed folding book; ink and color on paper

Banzuiin Chōbei Meeting His End at the Residence of Terasai Kanshin (Banzuiin Chōbei Terasai Kanshin no yashiki ni oite saigo gōyū no zu)

幡随院長兵衛寺西閑心の屋敷において最後がうゆうの図

1856

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban

Basho's Hut on Camellia Hill Beside the Aquaduct at Sekiguchi, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1857

Color woodblock print; oban

Benten Shrine and Inokashira Pond (Inokashira no ike Benten no yashiro), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1856

Color woodblock print; oban

Bingo Province: Kannon Temple at Abuto (Bingo, Abuto, Kannondo), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)"

1853

Color woodblock print; oban

Blossoms on the Tama River Embankment (Tamagawa-zutsumi no hana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

1856

Color woodblock print; oban

Butcherbird, Oak Tree and Camellia

1859

Color woodblock print

Cherry Blossoms at Night

夜桜美人図

mid-19th century, c. 1850

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Cherry Blossoms at Saga

1854

Print

Cherry Blossoms on the Shinjuku Embankment at Yotsuya

1856

Print

Cherry Trees on Mount Goten

1856

Print

Chikubu Island in Omi Province, No. 30 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei sanjuban Omi Chikubujima), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

1859

Color woodblock print; oban

Chikubu Island in Omi Province, No. 30 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei sanjuban Omi Chikubujima), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

1859

Color woodblock print; oban

Choshi Bay in Shimosa Province

1854-1858

Print

Clear Weather After Snow at Nihon Bridge (Nihonbashi yukibare), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"

Clearing Weather at Awazu

Feburary 1859

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

Cloth Fulling Jewel River in Settsu, from the series Six Jewel Rivers of the Various Provinces

1857

Color woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Comic Music (Manzaigaku), from the series Large Dolls

1856

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

Dancer Standing Beside a Drum

1848–1852

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

Descending Geese at Katada (Katada rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)"

1857

Color woodblock print; oban

Distant View of Ryogoku from the Ohashi Bridge

ca. 1855

Print

Dōkanyama mushi kiki (Listening to Insects at Dōkan Hill), from the series Edo meisho dōke zukushi (Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo)

道灌山虫聞 — 江戸名所道化尽

1859

Color woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Dutch Ship at Anchor off the Coast of Tsushima, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Various Provinces (Shōkoku meishō hyakkei), published by Uoya Eikichi

Late Edo period, third month of 1859

Yokohama woodblock print in ōban format; ink and color on paper

Dyers' Quarter, Kanda (Kanda Kon'ya-chō), Number 75 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Edo period, dated 1857 (11th month)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper

Echigo Province: Actors Ichikawa Ichizō I as Yokozō and Arashi Rikaku II as Jihizō

1857-1861

Color woodblock print

Effective Medicines (Yoku kiku yakushū)

能効藥種

circa 1847–1852

Woodblock-printed book illustration; ink and color on paper

Egrets in a Lotus Pond

蓮池白鷺図

1852

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Elegant Genji at the Salt Kilns at Suma (Fūryū Genji Suma no Shiogama)

1853

Print

Evening Bell at Mii Temple (Mii banshō), from an untitled series of Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei)

三井晩鐘

1854

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

Evening Glow at Seta, from the series Eight Views of Ōmi

1857

Color woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Evening Snow on Mt. Hira (Hira bosetsu), from an untitled series of Eight Views of Lake Biwa (Ōmi hakkei)

比良暮雪

c. 1854-59

Color woodblock print; ōban

Evening View of Eight Famous Sites at Kanazawa (Buyo Kanazawa hassho yakei)

1857

Color woodblock prints; oban triptych

Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province

1857

One of a triptych of color woodblock prints

Festival Floats, No. 4 from a series

1857

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

Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku hanabi), from the series "Reflections on Water at Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho mizu no omokage)"

1852

Color woodblock print; uchiwa-e

Fireworks at Ryōgoku, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo

1858

color woodblock print