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

Black Boy Hope II
2020
Color Lithograph

Space Boy
2021
Color Lithograph ( Produced in Collaboration with Jungle Press Editions)

Space Boy
2022
Color lithograph

Space Boy
2021
Lithograph

Space Girl
2022
Color lithograph

South Island Festival Girl
1982
Woodblock

Girl (D)
1967
Woodblock Print

Chrysanthemum Boy leaning on a rock, from the series "Five Prints on Longevity (Kotobuki goban no uchi)"
mid–1820s
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

The Bird Girls (installation view)
2016-2017
Sumi-ink portrait series on paper (74 sheets)

"american girl" doll is a woodcut print by artist charles spitzack printmaking fine art printmaker spitzak bikini stars and stripes

Small Girl Seated
1983
Etching and aquatint

Cosmic Girl Eyes Open
Offset print

Girl's Festival
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Home for Runaway Girls - Clubs are A Desire for Knowledge
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl startled by the cry of a cuckoo
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

German Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

German Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Two Girls
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl Reading a book
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Picture of the priest Dainin killing the girl Umegae
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl In profile
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl Combing her hair
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Student girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girls of the twelve months: June
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Two Girls warming themselves in winter
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Dancing girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl Reading a book
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl In front of a window
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Dancing Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boy On ox
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Child of the sea
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Rooster and boy
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Mother And child walking along a forest road
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Mother And child
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl With fruit basket
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boy With cat
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boy
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl And flowers
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Child In Aizu
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Child In Aizu
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl in flower-patterned kimono
Etching

Night guard and child
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Flower Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Children
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Little Girl with rice bunny
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

White Fox girls
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Flower girls - Cherry branch
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Flower girls - Morning
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Flower girls
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boy Washing horse
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Doll selling girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Dancing Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Boy's Day
Etching

Sleeping Girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Young Girl with poppies
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Flower and girl
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl With violets
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl With two birds
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl With birds
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Girl In the wind
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
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.





