Study guide

Japanese Woodblock Prints

A compact guide to Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), c. 1680–1927, told through 64 works from open-access museum collections.

Japanese woodblock prints of the floating world, from the first black-line sheets of the 1680s through Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Meiji era, with Western works that drew on them and one 1927 print by Yoshida Hiroshi. Compiled from museum collection records, with lectures and reference essays as background.

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Contents

• Ink Line to Hand Color
• Brocade Pictures: Harunobu and 1765
• Beauties: Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Eishi
• Stars of the Stage: Actor Prints
• Hokusai
• Hiroshige
• Heroes, Ghosts and the West

Image: The Met Open Access · Public domain (Met Open Access)