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
Peter
1912
Color woodcut
Chinese and Tartar Boys Quarreling over a Game of Go
c. 1790
Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression
Kites
1912
Color woodcut
Infancy
Woodblock print
Little Arbiter (Chiisana chusaisha)
1956
Color woodblock print
School is Out
Not set
Woodblock print
Hide and Seek (Kakurenbo)
1954
Color woodblock print
The actor Ichikawa Dajuro VII and a woman watching boy write first calligraphy of the New Year
1831
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
Hunting Fireflies in Cool Breeze
Woodblock print
Boys and Kites
1912
Color woodcut
Kodomo asobi nagauta zukushi / Harugoma
Woodblock print
Kodomo asobi nagauta zukushi / Kashima odori
Woodblock print
Daruma Doll Game
1930
Watercolor
Mother's Love, Shôwa period,
Woodblock print
Father and daughter
Woodblock print
Hiroko (Hiratsuka's oldest daughter)
1928
Woodcut print
The Artist's Son
1952
Color woodblock print
My Son
Woodblock print
Women and an Infant Boy in a Public Bath House
ca. 1799
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Yamauba with Kintarô Holding a Toy Mask
Woodblock print
Hide and seek
Woodblock print
Ikeda Shuzo
Woodblock print
Yamauba and Kaidomaru
February 1873
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Hotei
Woodblock print
Yamauba Holding Chestnuts while Kintarô Reaches for Them
Woodblock print
Girls (descriptive title)
Woodblock print
Tenderness (A)
Woodblock print
Image No.6 Motherhood (1)
Woodblock print
Seeking for Mother
Woodblock print
Mother Love
Woodblock print
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)
Woodblock print
Childrens game
1896
Woodblock print
Fishing — Uo-tsuri
1897
Woodblock print
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
Woodblock print
Play Ground (2)
Shōwa period, dated 1964
Woodblock print; ink on paper with signature reading "Hideo Hagiwara"
Yugijo (1) (Playground (1))
Woodblock print
January — 其一 追羽子
1898
Woodblock print
Hopping on one leg
1897
Woodblock print
Kodomo fuzoku
1897
Woodblock print
Taru Mikoshi
1897
Woodblock print
Playground
Woodblock print
Kiyoshi, Tokio
1939
Woodblock print
Little Flora - Shibaraku
1950s–1960s
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Swing Swing Swing
55/150, 2008
Woodblock print
Kite
Woodblock print
January; Kite and Battledore
Woodblock print
School Days - 2
1995
Woodblock print
Girl Holding a Cricket Cage
c. 1880–95
Image No.6 Motherhood (1)
Woodblock print
Child God
Woodblock print
Woman and Child with Dogs
Woodblock print
Mother with Children
Woodblock print
Girl in the Wind
Woodblock print
Mother and Child
1901
Color woodcut on paper
The Puppy-Cat and the Baby
1904
Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper
Black Boy Hope I
2021
Color lithograph on Somerset satin soft white paper
Mother and Child
1934
Color on silk, framed
A Girl's Growth to Adulthood
2010
Oil and gold on wooden panel
The Daikon and the Baby
1903
Color woodcut
Boy's Day
2017
Kappazuri stencil
Related Subjects
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.