Landscapes Prints (3812)
Landscapes are the most celebrated subject in Japanese woodblock printmaking, encompassing mountain vistas, coastal panoramas, river valleys, and rural scenes that have defined the genre for centuries. The tradition reached its first peak with Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (1831) and Hiroshige's "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" (1833-34), series that established the meisho-e (famous places) format as a cornerstone of ukiyo-e. Shin-hanga artists of the early twentieth century, particularly Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida, reinvented the landscape tradition by combining Western atmospheric effects with Japanese compositional sensibilities. Hasui's snow scenes and twilight views of rural Japan became iconic, while Yoshida's mountain studies introduced plein-air observation techniques unprecedented in woodblock printing. Sosaku-hanga artists like Toshi Yoshida and Shiro Kasamatsu further expanded the landscape vocabulary through personal expression and experimental color palettes. Japanese landscape prints typically emphasize seasonal atmosphere, weather conditions, and the interplay between human presence and natural grandeur. The use of bokashi (graduated color) and multiple impression techniques creates depth and luminosity that distinguish woodblock landscapes from other printmaking traditions.
Artists Known for Landscapes
House of Pleasure on the Hill
Woodblock print
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
Woodblock print
Scenery over there_22_05
Silkscreen
I Wonder if It's Spring
Woodcut
The Lights Go On in the Town with the Rustling of Rice Seedling
Woodcut
before dawn
Etching
Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard
常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで
Silkscreen
Sea Breeze A
Lithograph
Sea Breeze B
Lithograph
Sea Breeze C
Lithograph
Nostalgic Scenery #1
Lithograph
The Sunshine Filtering through Foliage #2
Lithograph
The Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage #3
Lithograph
The Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage #4
Lithograph
The Sunshine Filtering through Foliage #5
Lithograph
Pastoral
Woodblock print
The Glow of Taniwa
Woodblock print
Aizu Yanaizu Fukushima
Woodblock print
Water Front (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Silkscreen
Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Woodblock print
Memory-96-VI (Shinjuku Subcenter) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Etching, aquatint, and collagraph
The Distant View of the Shinjuku-city
Etching, aquatint, and photoetching
Odaiba (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Silkscreen
Nocturene - The Sumida River (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Lake and Mountain (Nipponbashi Shishi no Zo) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Woodblock print
Landscape (Tokyo Tower) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Color woodblock print
Akihabara (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Color woodblock print
falling down to the huge grey hollow in Hinode (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
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Inside Scene of Kabukiza [Kabuki theater] (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
1999
Color woodblock print
Ice grain in the Ice Cave Svalbard
2018
Etching, aquatint
1 Heimweh nach dem Meer - Longing for the sea 2 Sunken status 3 An impossible passage
2023
Photopolymer, Other
Brazilian Rainforest
2018
Color woodcut
Autumn Grasses and The Moon
2024
Foil, etching, woodblock, Japanese paper, chine collé
Ogawa In the Spring / Ogawa In the Fall
2017
Originals (diptych) with gold and silver leaf -- each panel is 36 x 51
Echo of Spring 2
2019
Drypoint etching
Correspondance
2000
Oil on canvas
Old Sea (from the Illustrated Poetry Book 'The Song of Maldoror')
1951
Aquatint and etching
Rain Song 4
2018
Intaglio
Red Monochromatic Abstract Woodblock Monoprint of a Web of Trees Landscape
1974
Monoprint; woodcut print
Moon Crest
2016
Illuminated Paperworks
Hokkan-Mountains, Seoul Korea
1937
Color woodblock print on paper under glass
Gravemarker Moon
1886
Woodblock Print
Nozawa Hot Spring in the Morning, Shinshu
Woodblock
Arctic Landscape
1973
Color woodcut on paper
Before the Dawn
2020
Acrylic on canvas
Twilight in the Field
2020
Acrylic on canvas
Bisected Landscape
2025
Oil on Dibond
Untitled: Cerise Sky
2025
Oil on Dibond
Waterfalls
2024
Oil on Dibond
Koshihata Snow
1974
Woodblock
The Moondrunk
2018
Japanese Paper, Sumi-Ink
Persimmon Sunrise
1983
Woodblock on Arches 90lb hotpress watercolour paper
Through Autumn light..I follow the secret of the crow's call
2009
Woodblock Print
At a Hot Spring Inn
1920
N/A
Iris (Rainbow); Playground (I)
Two color woodcuts (the first with embossing)
Dragonfly Pond
2015
Color woodcut
Edge of the Pond
2000
Color woodcut/lithograph
Fuji from Yoshida
Woodblock Print
Night (stars)
1954
Woodblock print
View of Nagashima Bridge, Yokohama (Setting Sun)/横浜長嶋橋所見（落陽）
1939
Woodblock Print
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Frequently Asked Questions
Landscapes are the most celebrated subject in Japanese woodblock printmaking, encompassing mountain vistas, coastal panoramas, river valleys, and rural scenes that have defined the genre for centuries. The tradition reached its first peak with Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (1831) and Hiroshige's "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" (1833-34), series that established the meisho-e (famous places) format as a cornerstone of ukiyo-e.
Utagawa Hiroshige, Kawase Hasui, and Hiroshi Yoshida are among the artists most associated with landscapes in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 3812 prints tagged with landscapes, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.