Children Prints (494)
Children (kodomo) in Japanese woodblock prints, depicted at play, in festivals, or in genre scenes of daily life. Child subjects appear across all periods, from Edo-era prints to modern sosaku-hanga compositions celebrating childhood innocence.
Artists Known for Children

Mothers Love- Mother and Child
Woodblock print

Unknown A Seated Girl Under a Tree with Fruit
Woodblock print

Unknown, child and bird
Woodblock print

Unknown, child and butterfly
Woodblock print

Unknown, child and flower
Woodblock print

Unknown, Child with Flowers
Woodblock print

Unknown- girl and goldfish- oban
Woodblock print

Unknown, Girl Praying
Woodblock print

Unknown- girl with flowers in hair
Woodblock print

Unknown, Little Girl- Camellia
Woodblock print

Unknown, sleeping child
Woodblock print

Unknown, Young Girl In Kimono- Camellia
Woodblock print

Woman Holding a Baby
Woodblock print

young girl holding a small Japanese fan
Woodblock print

young girl with a mask
Woodblock print

young girl with birds in her hair
Woodblock print

May; Boy's Festival
Woodblock print

Village Children Playing Baseball
1936
Woodblock print, ink on paper

Girl 122 - A
Woodblock print

Mother and child
Woodblock print

Farm girl
Woodblock print

Juvenile Instructions of the Boy Monju (Chigo monju osana kyokun)
1801
Woodblock-printed book; loose plates

#13, Oniwaka Maru (Benkei as a boy) Fighting with the Monks at the Shoshazan
Woodblock print

Dashun (Taishun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)"
c. 1843
Color woodblock print; oban

Hako-O Maru (Soga Goro as a Boy) near Waterfall, Writing Bonji Characters on a Rock, While Holding up an Statue of the God Fudo with one Hand.
Woodblock print

Rice Planting Girl - Saotome
Woodblock print

Girl 122 - A
Woodblock print

Child Cate (W)
Woodblock print
![Flowers of a Hundred Years: A Modern Girl [of 1920] (Hyakunen no Hana: Senkyuhakunijuunen no Moga) by Paul Binnie](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/scholten/images/690574bb534eeb48008c57562d14b274.jpg)
Flowers of a Hundred Years: A Modern Girl [of 1920] (Hyakunen no Hana: Senkyuhakunijuunen no Moga)
Woodblock print

Geisha Girl in Winter
Woodblock print

GIRL PLAYING HANETSUKI GAME
Woodblock print

Girl with Drum
Woodblock print

Maiko Girl, dancing
Woodblock print

Pensive Girl
Woodblock print

Dancing Girl by Lantern
Woodblock print

(Title unknown) Portrait of a Girl
1916
Woodblock print

Children
1912
Color woodcut

Child in snow
Woodblock print

Girl in Kimono
Woodblock print

Girl with fan
Woodblock print

Girl with western hat
Woodblock print

Woman Holding a Baby
Woodblock print
![Title unknown [Mother and child] by Nagase Yoshio](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135543.jpg)
Title unknown [Mother and child]
mid 20th century
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
![Title unknown [Woman and child] by Nagase Yoshio](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135555.jpg)
Title unknown [Woman and child]
mid 20th century
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
![Face (Child) [Kao (Kodomo)] by Kinoshita Tomio](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/48d9848d-173b-ed85-c977-09b387591108/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Face (Child) [Kao (Kodomo)]
1962
Color woodblock print; edition 20/50

Girl in Kimono
Woodblock print

Mitate No.28 - Sleeping baby (Akanbou)
2000

Children's Mind
Woodblock print

Children's Mind 69-10
Woodblock print

Happi Boy 2
20/100, 2004
Woodblock print

Happi Girl
117/200, 1996
Woodblock print

Child with Flowers
Woodblock print

Girl and Flowers
Woodblock print

Girl and Sunflowers
Woodblock print

A Boy and His Rooster (Artist's son, Jumpei, aged 12)
Woodblock print

A Girl and Her Swan (Artist's daughter, Ayuko)
Woodblock print

Boy and Rooster
1957
Woodblock print

Boy and Rooster in Moonlight
1959
Woodblock print

Boy and Villagers
Woodblock print

Boy Holding a Cat
1957
Woodblock print
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Frequently Asked Questions
Children (kodomo) in Japanese woodblock prints, depicted at play, in festivals, or in genre scenes of daily life. Child subjects appear across all periods, from Edo-era prints to modern sosaku-hanga compositions celebrating childhood innocence.
Kitagawa Utamaro, Jun'ichiro Sekino, and Kaoru Kawano are among the artists most associated with children in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 494 prints tagged with children, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.





