1880s Japanese Woodblock Prints

”Taira No Tadanori Under the Cherry Tree”

1884

Ink, paper

(Warrior Departing for a Battle)

c. 1880–99

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

11 p.m., from the series "Twenty-Four Hours at Shinyanagi (Shinyanagi nijuyoji)"

1880

Color woodblock print

30, Oda Nobunaga

December 1885

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

48, Tanaka Tsurukichi

February 1889

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

A Cauldron on a Moonlit Night (Tsukiyo no kama), from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)"

1886

Color woodblock print; oban

A Classical Poem

1886

Woodblock Print

A Collection of 'Children's Sports'

1888

Print

A Collection of Pictures of Chignon Hairstyles (Kazura tsuke sokuhatsu zukai)

1887 (Meiji 20)

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

A Fight Between Samurai Katō Toranosuke and Yamai Masatada

1883

Color woodblock print diptych

A Horse Washing in a River

川中洗馬図

ca. 1880–1890

Color woodblock print

A Jingle for a Sniff

1880 (page 206, Trübner edition 1887)

Wood-engraved book illustration after an original brush-and-ink drawing by Ozawa Nankoku of Tokyo; engraving by Henry W. Troy, New York

A Night at Sumida River

ca. 1881

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

A Ninja Attacking Hideyoshi's Retainers

1883

Color woodblock print

A Nude

裸体

1889

Oil on canvas; 80.0 × 43.8 cm

A temple hall

1885

Color woodblock print; surimono

Abe Hirafu

February 1880

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

Actors in a Kabuki Performance (triptych)

1880

Color woodblock print; ōban triptych

Album of Universal Designs by Eitaku (Sensai Eitaku senga banbutsu hinagata gafu), vol.4

1880

Print

Appearing Inquisitive, Behavior of a Maid of the Tenpō Era

April 1888

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

Appearing Warm, Behavior of an Urban Widow of the Kansei Era

March 1888

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

Autumn River Scene, The Brook

Bairei hyakuchō gafu (Three Volumes)

Woodblock-printed book; 3 vols.

Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu) 楳嶺百鳥畫譜

Battle of Okehazama in Bishū, Owari Province (Bishū Okehazama kassen)

尾州桶狭間合戦

December 25, 1882

Color woodblock print

Battle of Okehazama in Bishū, Owari Province (Bishū Okehazama kassen)

尾州桶狭間合戦

1883

Color woodblock print

Beauties Harvesting Bracken, from the series Gekkō’s Miscellaney

c. 1886–1899

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Beautiful Woman

1880

Silk

Beautiful Woman Sewing

1880

Silk

Benkei and the Moon at Daimotsunoura

1886

Print

Bird in a Cage

1880-1890

Color woodcut on paper (octagonal album sheet, black line block with color blocks)

Black-eared Kite, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu)

聚鳥畫譜 — 鳶

1885

Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper

Brown-eared Bulbul and Dioecious Holly, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu)

聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と柊

1885

Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper

Brown-eared Bulbul and Rosa Rugosa, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu)

聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と浜茄子

1885

Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper

Bush Warbler Perched on a Signboard alongside a Bamboo-fenced Plum Garden

1886

Color woodblock print; surimono

Butterfly on Flower

花に蝶図

ca. 1880-1890

Color woodblock print

By Request, Picture of Fujiwara Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, a Painting Shown at the Exhibition for the Advancement of Painting in Autumn 1882

February 1883

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

Calligraphy and Painting Party

1881

Ink and color on paper

Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter

1885

Oil on canvas

Chang E Flees to the Moon

1885

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

Cherry Blossoms in Sendai

仙台の桜

1881

Oil on canvas

Chōan Killing His Younger Brother at Fuda-no-Tsuji

1886

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

Chosakabé Nobuchika and Sengoku Gonbei, from the series Newly Selected Records of the Taikō Hideyoshi (Shinsen Taikōki)

新撰太閤記

1883

Color woodblock print

Chushingura

忠臣蔵

1880s

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

Clouds of Prince Genji

summer 1885

Color woodblock print; surimono

Collaborative Painting of Sixteen Arhats

十六羅漢合作図

circa 1880

Hanging scroll; ink and color on satin (collaborative work)

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

mid February 1882

Woodblock printed book, ink and color on paper

Commanders Receiving the Emperor's Drinking Cups (Taiseikan shōshō shiten)

大政官将相賜典

1886 (Meiji 19)

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Court lady reading letter

Late Meiji Period (1886-1912)

Woodblock print

Courtesan Shirato of the Teahouse Hashimoto-ya

1886

Woodblock print

Covers of the three booklets Bright Young Girl in the Abyss of a Poisonous Snake, vol. 3

1880

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

Crab and Lotus Plant

蓮に蟹図

ca. 1880-1890

Color woodblock print

Cranes and Pine Trees in a Landscape

松鶴山水図

late 19th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Crescent Moon over Hyapponkui

1881–89

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

Dakurō Ryōkatsu Kōyōson Ten (A Tavern in the Yellow-Leaf Village with Murky Sake to Cure Thirst)

濁醪療渇黄葉村店

1889

Oil on canvas

Dead Tree and Rocks

枯木岩石図

Before 1881

Ink on paper

Delighted (Ureshiso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

1888

Color woodblock print; oban

Demoiselle Crane and Reed, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu)

聚鳥畫譜 — 鍋鶴と葦

1885

Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper

Demon in Disguise as an Old Woman Fleeing with a Severed Arm (Rōba kiwan o mochisaru zu), from the series New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjūroku kaisen)

1889

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

Distant View of Mount Matsuchi from the Sumida River

1884

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