1,170 results for "ukiyo-e prints"

Presenting an exquisite Vivienne Westwood corset top artfully crafted from teal chevron-printed cotton, adorned with a captivating Japanese-inspired ukiyo-e print. This intricate art...

Page from "Spring View in Takanawa" Mid 18th Century Ukiyo-e Print Left page from the triptych print "Spring View in Takanawa" by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese b. 1786 d...

"Ichimura Hazaemon as Hatsuyumeya Mitsujiro" is a woodcut print by Toyoharu Kunichika in red, blue, and black. 14" x 9 1/2" art 20 3/4" x 16 3/4" framed From the series “First Per...

This print is from a highly regarded series by the Edo woodblock artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi: in the period, there were at times prohibitions in depicting a...

Contemporary interpretation of “Wakashima Gonemon Swimming Underwater” by Taiso Yoshitoshi. Signed and dated in front lower right corner by artist...

A fine vintage Japanese woodblock print. Entitled "Kinkaku-ji in Snow". By Tomikichiro Tokuriki (1902 - 1999). Tokuriki came from a...

A rare and powerful authentic woodblock print (nishiki-e) by the "Golden Age" master Utagawa Kunimaru (1793-1829). Dating from the 1820s, this piece is a superb example of yakusha-e ...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of Mt. Fuji warmly illuminated by the morning sky. Signed in Kanji center right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of Mitsuke in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, circa 1850. A figure on horseback...

Thierry Noir The energy of the dance floor comes straight back to my ears, 2025 Ukiyo-e print in colours on kizuki hosho paper hand made by Ichibei Iwano 27.4 x 27.4 cm 35.7 x 35.7 c...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of Imagiri Beach and Promontory near Maisaka, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji center left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Uta...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers entering the coastal town of Oiso on a rainy evening, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) and printed circa 1946 by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981). An exceptionally crisp image with fresh color, printed on traditional Washi paper and showing delicate bokashi gradation of sumi ink in the horizon and upper sky. Sheet Dimensions: 10.25 H x 15.25 W inches. Two sets of travelers arrive in the town of Oiso on a bleak, rainy day. The subtitle of the print is "Tora’s Rain," named after the lover of one of the Soga brothers in the Soga Monogatari, an epic tale of revenge set in the twelfth-century. In the story, the Soga brothers commit a massacre to avenge their father’s murder, and are in turn put to death by the shogun. Tora weeps after learning of her lover's fate and her tears cause a torrential downpour over the town...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of the workers looking out over the river from the scaffolding of Yoshida Temple, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji...

Shunga: Twelve Signs of the Zodiac - Goat Color woodcut with gauffrage (embossing) Unsigned (as usual) Format: Shikishiban Publisher: Privately produced Unusually well preserved with the fugitive blue still intact Image size: 5-1/8 x 5-3/4" Sheet size: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this Japanese name, the surname is Isoda. Isoda Koryūsai (礒田 湖龍斎, 1735–1790) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer and painter active from 1769 to 1790. Life and career Koryūsai was born in 1735 and worked as a samurai in the service of the Tsuchiya clan. He became a masterless rōnin after the death of the head of the clan and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he settled near Ryōgoku Bridge in the Yagenbori area. He became a print designer there under the art name Haruhiro in 1769, at first making samurai-themed designs. The ukiyo-e print master Harunobu died in 1770, and about that time Koryūsai began making prints in a similar style of life in the pleasure districts. Koryūsai was a prolific designer of individual prints and print series,[1] most of which appeared between 1769 and 1881. In 1782, Koryūsai applied for and received the Buddhist honour hokkyō ("Bridge of the Law") from the imperial court and thereafter used the title as part of his signature. His output slowed from this time, though he continued to design prints until his death in 1790. Works Koryūsai created a total of 2,500 known designs, or an average of four a week. According to art historian Allen Hockley, "Koryūsai may ... have been the most productive artist of the eighteenth century". The series Models for Fashion: New Designs as Fresh Young Leaves (Hinagata wakana no hatsumoyō, 1776–1781) ran for 140 prints, the longest known ukiyo-e print series of beauties. He designed at least 350 hashira-e pillar prints, numerous kachō-e bird-and-flower prints, a great number of shunga erotic prints, and others. Ninety of his nikuhitsu-ga paintings are known, making him one of the most productive painters of the period. Legacy Despite Koryūsai's productivity and popularity—both in his time and amongst later collectors—his work has attracted little scholarship. The first ukiyo-e histories written in the West in the 19th century elevated certain artists as exemplars; Koryūsai's work came to be seen as too indebted to Harunobu, who died in 1770, and inferior to that of Kiyonaga, whose peak period came in the 1880s. An example is Woldemar von Seidlitz's Geschichte des japanischen Farbenholzschnittes ("History of Japanese colour prints", 1897), the most popular of the early ukiyo-e histories, which paints Koryūsai as a successor to Harunobu and a rival of Kiyonaga in the 1770s who slipped into mediocrity and imitation of his rival by the end of the decade.[5] Interest lay mainly in the details of Koryūsai's life—a samurai who received court honours was unusual in the proletarian world of ukiyo-e. In 2021, contemporary woodblock printmaker David Bull...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers at Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture with a view beyond to Yugyō-ji Temple, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji uppe...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of the Sarugababa (Monkey Plateau) rest stop at Futakawa, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji lower right, "Hiroshige...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers crossing the Suruga bank of the Ōi River, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji lower left, "Hiroshige Ga"...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a panoramic view of the Nihonbashi business district in Tokyo, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji lower right, "Hiroshige ...

A wonderful Japanese woodblock print by famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) (1797-1858) tilted "Yoroi Ferry at Koami-cho (Yoroi no ...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a ferry sailing across Lake Hamana. Signed in Kanji lower right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japane...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of two figures fighting wind gusts along the Mei River. Signed in Kanji upper right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utaga...

A vibrant ukiyo-e print by the prolific printmaker Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). The scene is from the Japanese folk tale Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari. Originally a Yomihon (a...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers on the Tenryū River, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji center right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando)...

"Meteor Rider" features a contemplative, angelic figure adorned with delicate wings, surrounded by celestial orbs and accompanied by a watchful owl, all rendered in Hiratsuka’s signa...

"House Cleaning in Preparation for the New Year" - Japanese Woodblock on Paper House cleaning scene by Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753-1806). This print was originally published around 1796-1799, with this example being a later reprint. The full scene is five sheets - there are two more sheets to the right that show more members of the house. However, it is these three sheets that contain the majority of the action - a maid sweeping at a mouse, a lady fainting, and a painting moved aside to allow for cleaning. Presented in a new black mat. Mat size: 24"H x 38"W Paper size: 17.75"H x 33"W Print Impression: 14.63"H x 29.5"W Utamaro Kitagawa...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers in Shono, circa 1850. Beside the path, a grove of trees is si...

A captivating, intense gaze from the final days of feudal Japan. This is not merely a portrait; it is a time capsule, capturing a moment of profound cultural transformation. This au...

A characterful ukiyo-e print by the prolific Japanese printmaker Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). The scene depicts Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shôjiki Seibei, and Onoe Kikugorô IV as his d...

While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilit...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a samurai and his porter enjoying the shade of a Japanese pine tree while waiting for tea, circa 1850. Signed in Kan...

Kabuki Actor in Blue Kimono - Original Woodblock Print Original woodblock print depicting a Kabuki actor in a blue kimono by Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725-1770). The actor holds u...

Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 15. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more...

This stunning original lithograph from around 1960 presents one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most iconic compositions: the Portrait du Père Tanguy, originally painted in 1887. The piece off...

Kabuki Theatre Scene is a color woodblock print on paper, realized by Utagawa Toyokuni II around 1810 ca. This lovely ukiyo-e print depicts a kneeling actress, more precisely a geis...

While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilit...

Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle Year: 2023 Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches Edition of 15 Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman contemplating small plants and animals...

Image of a young woman, pondering a question over a cup of coffee. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and i...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers passing beside a tea-house between steep slopes in Okabe, Shi...

Pair of vintage 20th century Japanese woodblock prints after ukiyo-e style art of geishas / courtesans by Kikukawa Eizan. One shows a seated courtesan in a pink floral kimono playing...

Japanese Wood Block Print Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797/98-1861) - Battle Scene Ukiyo-e woodblock print master. Additional information: Material: Wood & Paper Region of Origin: Jap...

Signed, titled, and numbered from the edition of 15. Image of a young girl i Kimono. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whi...

Ukiyo-e Style Woodcut Untitled, c. 1900 Woodcut print Sight: 13 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. Framed: 22 1/4 x 37 1/4 in.

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing the summer horse fair, which Chiryu was well known for. Every summer, horse traders would bring near 500 horses to m...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a panoramic view of Shinmachi Bridge, Hodogaya, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (...

Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle Year: 2023 Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches Edition of 15 Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman with chocolate and marshmallow figures...

A dramatic mid-nineteenth century ukiyo-e print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), depicting actors Nakamura Shikan IV as the samurai Akama Genzaemon and Sawamura Tanosuke III as the...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a group of figures unloading goods on the bank of the Oi River near Kanaya in Shi...

The Courtesan Kashiwagi and the Kamuro Wakano - Japanese Woodblock Print Original Toyokuni III/Kunisada (Japanese, 1786 - 1864) Japanese Woodblock Print "The Courtesan Kashiwagi and...

This exquisite lithograph by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), titled Coucher De Soleil Sur La Mediterranee (Sunset Over the Mediterranean), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol...

This is a polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e, ink and colour on paper), likely realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) at the middle of 19th century. This plate is sig...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Stud...

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

This exquisite engraving after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Femme se lavant dans sa baignoire (Woman Washing in Her Bathtub), originates from the celebrated album Degas Danse dess...

A dramatic mid-nineteenth century ukiyo-e print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), depicting actors Actors Ichikawa Kuzô III as Kômori Yasu and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Kirare Otomi....

Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e). A finely executed ukiyo-e print depicting two kabuki actors caught in a moment of heightened dramatic tension, shown within a richly patterne...

A vibrant ukiyo-e print by the prolific printmaker Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). The composition shows a male figure, possibly an actor portraying a specific role, standing outdoors....

Man with the Dragon is a superb color woodbloock print on rice-paper, realized by the great master of ukiyo-e print, Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825) Depicti...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers moving through Sayo Mountain Pass. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing travelers at a teahouse in Otsu, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji upper left, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige...

An ink on paper, Nishiki-e and Yoko-e woodblock landscape showing a view of travelers crossing the Ōi River at Kanaya, circa 1850. Signed in Kanji center right, "Hiroshige Ga" for Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) and printed circa 1946 by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981). An exceptionally crisp image with fresh color, printed on traditional Washi paper and showing delicate bokashi gradation of sumi ink in the foreground, horizon and upper sky. Sheet Dimensions: 10.25 H x 15.25 W inches. The procession from a previous print emerges from the river, having completed its crossing. Porters lie down to rest after the river crossing, while a large crew of men struggle to move a particularly heavy palanquin (presumably containing a daimyo) across the home stretch...