Birds & Flowers Prints (1639)

Chinese Children Pulling a Cart with Flowers

1765-1770

Print

Parodies of Flowery Beauties of the Floating World (Ukiyo bijin hana mitate): Chôzan of the Chôjiya

Snow at Benzaiten Shrine in Inokashira Pond (Inokashira no ike Benzaiten no yashiro yuki no kei), from the series "Snow, Moon, and Flowers at Famous Places (Meisho setsugekka)"

c. 1844/45

Color woodblock print; oban

White heron landing behind irises

early 1830s

Print

Irises

ca. 1840-1842

Print

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga)

c.1783

Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych

Kingfisher, Irises and Wild Pinks

ca. 1834

Print

Crowd Visiting Benzaiten Shrine at Enoshima in Sagami Province (Soshu Enoshima Benzaiten kaicho sankei gunshu no zu)

c. 1847/52

Color woodblock print; oban triptych

Horse Iris Pattern (Koma shobu), from the series "A Selection of Horses (Uma-zukushi)"

1822

Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

Yoshino, from the series "Snow, Moon and Flowers (Setsugekka)"

c. 1833

Color woodblock print; oban

White and Purple Irises

early 1800s

color woodblock print

Taro Potato Leaf and Bellflowers

ca. 1808-1809

Print

Green Plums Wrapped in Bamboo Leaf; A Teabowl

19th century

Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Sparrows Flitting about Snow-covered Nandina as More Snow Falls

c. 1840

Color woodblock print; chu-tanzaku

Cranes by the Water's Edge

ca. 1840-1842

Print

Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chōjiya, from an untitled series of courtesans arranging flowers

c. 1802 (Kyōwa 2)

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

Parody of the Story of Yoritomo Releasing Cranes at Yuigahama

c. 1805

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Bush Clover (Hagi), from an untitled series of Flowers

c. 1769

Color woodblock print; chuban

Knowledge (Chi), from the series "Five Cardinal Virtues"

1767

Color woodblock print; chuban

A Flower Seller

Chickens and Asiatic Dayflowers

1832

Print

Cranes on the Seashore/The Reed Shell (Ashigai), from the series "Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets" (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Edo period, datable to 1821

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishi" format; ink, color, gold, metallic pigment, and embossing on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

Crab and Flowers

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono"; ink, color, metallic pigment and embossing on paper

New Year Manzai Performance at a Feudal Lord's Mansion, from the illustrated book "Picture Book: Flowers of the Four Seasons (Ehon shiki no hana)," vol. 1

New Year, 1801

Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book

FLOWERS, BIRDS, WINDS AND MOON (Kachō fūgetsu)

Late Edo period,

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

Iris

1840s

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

Kingfisher and Chinese Bellflowers

early or mid-1830s

color woodblock print

Moonlight on the Yodo River (Yodogawa), from the series "Snow, Moon and Flowers (Setsugekka)"

c. 1833

Color woodblock print; oban

Waterfall of Flowers: Caring for the Aged in the Quarter (Hana no taki sato no yoro), from the series Comical Dances of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara niwaka)

Late Edo period, circa 1795

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

Courtesan Segawa of the Matsubaya, kamuro Takeno and Sasano, from the series Display of Flowers in Full Bloom at the New Houses (Saki zoroe shintaku no kadan)

c. 1803 (Kyōwa 3)

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

Double-Flowered Cherry: Motoura of the Minami Yamasakiya (Minami Yamasakiya uchi Motoura, Yaezakura), from the series "Beauties of the Floating World Compared to Flowers (Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu)"

c. 1768-1769

Color woodblock print; chuban

Women by an Iris Pond

c. 1785

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

Women of the Yoshiwara and flowering peonies

Kingfisher above a Yellow-flowered Water Plant

1853, third month

Color woodblock print; aitanzaku

The Flower Pavilion at Sendagi

1855

Print

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

c. 1781

Color woodblock print; aiban

Six women seated around a bird cage

1823

Color woodblock print; surimono

Murasaki Shikibu: Bird, from the series "Famous Women and Their Poems on Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon (Meifu eika kacho fugetsu)"

c. 1805

Color woodblock print; oban

PAIR OF CRANES

Ink on paper

Sumirena: The Mistress of Yojiya (Yojiya musume, Sumirena), from the series "Beauties of the Floating World Compared to Flowers (Ukiyo bijin hana ni yosu)"

c. 1768/69

Color woodblock print; chuban

Cranes at the Sea Shore

c. 1768

Color woodblock print; chuban

Mandarin Ducks and Flowering Plants

early or mid-1830s

color woodblock print

Sparrows and Camellia

19th century

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

A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight

c. 1715

Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e

Sparrowhawk (Konori taka)

c. 1716

Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical o-oban, tan-e

Bird Beginning Flight (Tobitatsu tori)

飛び立つ鳥

1959

Color woodblock print

Bird on a Maple Branch

楓に小鳥

before 1915

Ink and color on silk; hanging scroll

Actor Nakamura Ganjirô as Akane Hanshichi, from the series Flowers of the Theatrical World (Rien no hana), Taishô period, dated 1920

Woodblock print

Sparrowhawk and Macaw (Konori taka, inko)

c. 1718

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, tan-e

Shasei sōka moyō (Patterns of Flowers and Grasses from Life), Volume 2 (Ge)

写生草花模様 下

1907

Woodblock-printed design album (zuanchō); ink and color on paper

Flower (Hana)

early 19th century

Color woodblock print; oban

The Actor Ogino Isaburō as an Itinerant Flower Vendor

ca. 1738

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Tea Bowl and Fruit

茶碗と果実

1921

Color on silk; hanging scroll

Painting Flowers (Peonies)

牡丹図

c.1887

Oil on canvas

Snow, Moon, and Flowers in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro setsugekka) : Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya with Attendants Shirabe and Teriha

n.d.

Color woodblock print; oban

CRANE AND IRISES

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Mahakasyapa Smiling at the Lotus Flower

拈華微笑

1897

Color on silk

Viewers at a Flower Exhibition

1880-1890

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

Bird in a Cage

1880-1890

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

An English Soldier (Igirisu), published by Jōshūya Jūzo

Late Edo period, tenth month of 1860

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