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
The Fireworks (Summer)
花火 夏
c. 1950s
Color woodblock print
Summer Retreat
early to mid-1800s
Leaf from a pair of folding albums; ink and light color on paper
Summer Mountains Carpeted with Green
ca. 1825
Woodblock print
Summer Night on the Banks of the Kamo River near Shijō, from an untitled series of Kyoto landscapes for an optical viewer device
四条河原納涼図
ca. 1765–1775
Woodcut with hand-applied color (uki-e for a nozoki-karakuri optical viewer)
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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.