Nude Prints (136)

Nude and semi-nude figure studies in Japanese woodblock prints. While classical bijin-ga occasionally depicted partial nudity in bathing scenes, the nude as an artistic subject became more prominent in modern sosaku-hanga and contemporary printmaking.

Hashiguchi Goyo, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and Ishikawa Toraji are among the artists most associated with nude in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.

Hanga currently catalogues 136 prints tagged with nude, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.