Summer Prints (304)
Summer scenes in Japanese woodblock prints, featuring fireworks, festivals (matsuri), lush green landscapes, cicadas, morning glories, lotus ponds, and the distinctive heat shimmer of the Japanese summer rendered through bokashi gradation.
Artists Known for Summer
August Morning glories
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Late summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Late summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer Mountain
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer haze
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Perennial summer
Etching
Calendar Sheet August 1940
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Perennial summer in the Ryukyu Islands
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Early summer garden
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer moon
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Two Girls on a summer evening
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Hozu River Rapids - Early summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Old Karuisawa in summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Beach in summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Rice-planting in early summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer landscape
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Garden in June
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer Forest
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer landscape
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Bamboos in early summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Appearance of summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Early summer garden
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Sannenzaka in summer
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer Rain, frontispiece
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer B
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Summer grass
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
The Four Seasons in the South (Minami Shiki): Summer Scene
n.d.
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
Summer Mountains
夏山図
early 20th century
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Summer Parlor (Kajin kōzai)
佳人好在
1925
Painting; mineral pigments on silk
Four Seasons in the South - Summer View (Minami shiki natsu no kei)
c. 1789/93
Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych
Actor Ichikawa Komazô III as Nyosan no Miya (The Third Princess), Ukare Zatô (A Blind Street Performer), and Sakata no Kaidô-maru in “Expanded Summer Festival” (“Zôho natsu matsuri”)
About 1791
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Summer Flowers
夏花図
Edo period (1615–1868)
Folding fan remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Summer Evening
夏夕
1941
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Keinen's Album of Birds and Flowers (Keinen kachō gafu) — Summer volume
景年花鳥畫譜 夏之部
1892
Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper
Amusements on a Summer Evening — 夏宵遊興図
A Summer Shower
1909
Color woodcut on paper
Summer Willow in the Breeze
ca. 1748
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Moon over Ryogoku Bridge in Summer (Natsu Ryogoku no tsuki), from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons (Shiki Koto meisho)"
c. 1832/34
Color woodblock print; chutanzaku
Sparklers on Summer Evening
Edo period (1615-1868)
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
Woman Carrying a Basket of Summer Herbs
1861-1867
Color woodcut
Kamigamo Shrine in Summer
夏の上賀茂神社図
circa 1860–1870
Six-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River
c. 1784
Color woodblock print; oban diptych
Rural Scene in Early Summer: Peasants Transplanting Rice and a Man Washing a Horse
late 1790s
Color woodblock print; long surimono
Summer Elegance
Summer Table
Woman visiting a shrine in summer
18th century
Color woodblock print; nishiki-e
Woman on Porch in Summer
Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi Kurōbei in "Mirror of Naniwa: The Summer Festival"
1832
color woodblock print
Early Summer Rain, Arakawa River
June 1932
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Beauty Wearing a Summer Kimono, from the series “New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style" ("Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata-shinmoyo")
c. 1796/98
Color woodblock print; oban
Suited to Patterns Stocked by Izugura (Izugura shi-ire no moyō muki), from the series Summer Outfits: Beauties of Today (Natsu ishō tōsei bijin)
c. 1804-06 (Bunka 1-3)
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Suited to Crepes Stocked by Echigoya (Echigoya shi-ire no chijimi muki), from the series Summer Outfits: Beauties of Today (Natsu isho tosei bijin)
Late Edo period, circa 1804-1806
Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Utamaro hitsu"
A Young Woman in a Summer Shower
1765
Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono
Woman Running to Take in the Clothes during a Summer Shower
Takata, from the series "Ten Summer Scenes in Edo (Edo natsu jikkei)"
c. 1787
Color woodblock print; chuban
Summer Bath
ca. 1804-1807
Summer: Fishing in the River
1765-1770
Summer: Moon at Ryōgoku Bridge (Natsu, Ryōgoku no tsuki), from the series Famous Views of Edo in the Four Seasons (Shiki Kōto meisho)
20th century
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo of the Otsuya (Otsuya uchi Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo), from the series "Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu)"
1783
Color woodblock print; oban
Children and Fireworks (Summer)
花火と子供たち
c. 1960
Color woodblock print
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Frequently Asked Questions
Summer scenes in Japanese woodblock prints, featuring fireworks, festivals (matsuri), lush green landscapes, cicadas, morning glories, lotus ponds, and the distinctive heat shimmer of the Japanese summer rendered through bokashi gradation.
Ito Shinsui, Katsuyuki Nishijima, and Miyagawa Shuntei are among the artists most associated with summer in our collection. Browse the full list of artists who explored this subject above.
Hanga currently catalogues 304 prints tagged with summer, spanning ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, and sōsaku-hanga traditions where applicable.