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The
Outstanding
Sites
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Chikanobu (1838-1912)
Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints - an online exhibit from the Scripps College Collection of Japanese Prints, currently only with Chikanobu prints
- Yôshû Chikanobu - by Gary Gross
Gekko (1859-1920)
- The Art of Ogata Gekko - by Robert W. Turley
Hiroshige (1797-1858)
- The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige - with an online display of several series by Hiroshige
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - an online exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum
- Tôkaidô fûkei zue - Tôkaidô albums by Hiroshige from Keio University
- WebMuseum: Hiroshige
Hokusai (1760-1849)
I manga di Hokusai - analysis of the 15 volumes of Hokusai Manga by Silvia Faccioli, in Italian
- Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan
- Hagi Uragami Museum - displaying several Hokusai albums
- Hokusai's Manga, vol 1
- Hokusai World - presented by Uragami Sôkyu-Dô Co, Ltd
- 24 Views of Mount Fuji - Tim Eagen has collected images of the 24 Hokusai prints that are featured in a novella by Roger Zelazny
- WebMuseum:Hokusai
- Hokusai and Japanese Art - by Andreas Ramos
Verhaal van een meesterwerk - De Grote Golf - a Dutch TV documentary about Hokusai's Great Wave
Kunichika (1835-1900)
Toyohara Kunichika's Ukiyo-e Prints - an image database of more than 1,700 actor prints
- Digital Museum for Toyohara Kunichika
Monika Hinkel: Toyohara Kunichika - a doctoral thesis, in German
Kunisada (1786-1864)
- Kunisada and Kabuki - a virtual gallery from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
- Kunisada Project - documenting lots of prints and series by the prolific artist
- Toshidama - Kunisada series explored by Theo de Kreijger
- Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library - displaying a number of Kunisada prints from the collection of Juntaro Kamimura
Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
- The Kuniyoshi Project - by William Pearl
Kyôsai (1831-1889)
- Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum - with only a few prints and drawings displayed online
Osaka School
- Artist biographies and signature examples - compiled by John Fiorillo
- Articles - by Peter Ujlaki
- Nishiki-e ni miru Ôsaka no fûkei - landscape prints in Osaka Prefectural Library
- Kansai University: Hasegawa Sadanobu - a large display of prints by Sadanobu I, II and III
Sharaku (?-?)
- The Mystery of Toshusai Sharaku
- Sharaku's works - a comprehensive catalogue by Gordon Friese (based on Henderson & Ledoux) with references to available reproductions, text in German
Toyokuni (1769-1825)
- Toyokuni (Wikipedia)
Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
- Sinister Designs: Yoshitoshi Tsukioka - with a number of good images
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Individual
Artists
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Eight views (Hakkei)
- Hiroshige no hakkei-mono - Japanese text only
- Kanazawa hakkei, a Hiroshige series presented by T Hirose - Japanese text
- Hiroshige's Edo kinko hakkei no uchi (National Diet Library)
- Edo no Iki Gallery: Eight Views (Hakkei)
Rônin - Chûshingura
- The kabuki play Chûshingura
illustrated by Toyokuni and other ukiyo-e artists - from the printroom of the Spencer
Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Kanadehon Chûshingura - Japan Arts Council, Japanese text
Sugoroku
- Sugoroku collection database - Japanese board games in Tokyo Gakugei University Library, text in Japanese
- Sugoroku Library - Japanese text only
Sumo
- Historical Sumo Images - a large collection of sumo prints
- Sumo nishikie no sekai - Japanese text only
Surimono
- Jan Cock Blomhoff's collection of surimono presented by Daan Kok
- Haikai Ichimaizuri - a database from Waseda University
Theatrical prints
- The ukiyo-e gallery of
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum - about 60 theatrical prints, including a collection of
Kamigata actor portraits (Osaka school) - mostly Japanese text
- Yakushae - a portrait gallery of kabuki actors, compiled by Regis Allegre - text in French and English
- Two Views of Kabuki - a virtual exhibition of kabuki prints by Kuniaki and Fusatane, from the Viriginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Nishiki-e de miru kabuki - kabuki prints presented by Waifu Seijuro, text in Japanese
Tôkaidô
- Tôkaidô - two complete series from the 1860s, presented by Fabio Vitali - text in Italian
- Tôkaidô hitoritabi - prints by Hiroshige and modern photos, text in Japanese
- WEB Ukiyo-e - prints by Hiroshige and old photos, text in Japanese
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Popular
Subjects
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Themes
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- Art Imagebase of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco - including almost 3,000 ukiyo-e prints (However, the descriptions are sparse and not always accurate)
- Bayly Art Museum - with an online exhibit of "Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints"
- C's Ukiyo-e Museum, Nagano, Japan - with an online exhibit of Kuniyoshi triptychs and other prints, text mostly in Japanese
- The Connecticut College - Black's Collection of Japanese Prints
- Dai Nippon Bussan Zue by Hiroshige III - from the digital archives of Kyushu University
- Davison Art Center - with a small exhibit of Japanese prints
Edo-Tokyo Museum - with rather small images of more than 2,000 prints
- Educational Colored Woodblock Prints - a collection of educational prints from 1873, displayed by the University of Tsukuba Library
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-e - an exhibition from the Library of Congress
- Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts (UCLA) - with a display of Japanese prints
- Hagi Uragami Museum - with an image database of about 5000 prints
III Library (University of Tokyo) - 90 woodblock prints from the Hideo Ono collection
- Images of Korea in Ukiyoe Prints - a large online exhibit of Meiji prints from the Tokyo Keizai University Library Collection
- Japan Arts Council - images of ukiyo-e prints - Japanese text only
- The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto - exhibits from the Sakai collection
- Japanese Education Gallery - an exhibit from the Virtual Museum of Education Iconics
- The Kano Collection - picture scrolls, albums and prints in the Tohoku University Library
- University of Kansas Medical Center - displaying medical prints from the Clendening Library
- Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas - displaying a few ukiyo-e paintings
- Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art - displaying only a few of their 1,300 ukiyo-e prints online
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art - an online database with more than 900 Japanese prints
- Meiji nishiki-e from the George S Bonn Collection - prints by Ikkei, Kiyochika and others, presented by Keio University, text in Japanese
- Meiji nishiki-e no sekai - Meiji prints from the Tokyo Gas Museum - Japanese text
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts - with an image database including a large number of Japanese prints
- MIT Visualizing Cultures - aspects of Meiji Japan in prints and other contemporary pictures
- Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria - with images of more than 4000 ukiyo-e prints
- Nagoya TV Ukiyo-e Museum - now with a new design, Japanese text only
- Nara Prefectural Museum of Art displaying a few ukiyo-e prints - Japanese text
- Nara University of Education - with a good display of ukiyo-e prints, text in Japanese
- National Diet Library - with an online exhibit of scrolls and albums, by Harunobu, Utamaro, Hiroshige and others - Japanese text
- Nishiki-e Gallery - an online exhibit from Tokyo University - Japanese text
- Noda Public Library - a collection of book cover illustrations
- Odawara hyakka jiten - ukiyo-e prints illustrating the history of Odawara and Soga monogatari, with text in Japanese
- Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California - with an online exhibit of Japanese prints and paitings
- Purdue University Galleries - displaying a number of 19th-20th century Japanese prints
- The Collection Rieder, Basel, Switzerland - an interesting exhibit (under construction)
- Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Holland - with an online image database
- Scripps College, Claremont, California - an online catalogue with good images
- Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library - an online database of ukiyo-e prints, Japanese text only
- SILS Art Image Browser - a resource from the University of Michigan with 81 Japanese woodblock prints among lots of other works of art
- The Smart Museum at the University of Chicago has now released its image database for external users - including a number of Japanese prints, most of them black and white
- Ukiyoe in the Sweet Briar Collection - representation of women in a beautifully presented exhibit from Sweet Briar College in Virginia
- Takamatsu Historical Museum - with an exhibit of prints and paintings depicting the Genpei War
- The Tobacco & Salt Museum - exhibiting prints related to tobacco and smoking
- Tokyo National Museum - displaying only a small part of their ukiyo-e collection online
- UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
Ukiyoe caricatures 1842-1905 - a database from Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften der Universität Wien
- Ukiyoe VR-Museum - prints depicting silk production
- Victoria & Albert Museum: Japanese Prints
- The Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts an exhibit from the Japan Information Network
- Worcester Art Museum - with an online display of Japanese art, including a couple of works by ukiyo-e painters
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General
- Museums
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Libraries
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General
- Private
Collectors
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Cats in Japanese prints
- Kyoto Art & Culture Club of Ukiyoe - Japanese text only
- Go Ukiyo-e Collection - prints illustrating the classical game of Go
- Ciudad de la Pintura - works by 79 Japanese artists, text in Spanish
- Eating Scenes from Ukiyoe - a slide show from Oysy.net
- Tokyo University Digital Museum: News no tanjô - about colour woodblock prints as newspaper illustrations, in Japanese
- Ukiyo-e, The Art of the Floating World - a display of prints at a slightly bizarre web site
- Japanese artists is the CGFA Virtual Art Museum
- Edo shoku-bunka kikô - Edo food culture reflected in ukiyo-e prints - articles in Japanese
- Edo Ukiyo-e Net - displaying a few prints and a Kuniyoshi album, text in Japanese only
- Enoshima maniakku - with a large display of prints depicting Enoshima, text in Japanese
- The ETC Web Museum - featuring an exhibition of Japanese prints
- Harumi Antiques: Beauties in a floating world - an online exhibit
- Ichiyûsai - displaying prints by Kuniyoshi and others, text in Japanese
- Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery - where you can find all the prints from the (now disappeared) University of Washington FTP site and many others
- Kites in Ukiyoe woodcut prints - a part of Masami Takakuwa's kite collecting site
- Children of the Edo period as seen in ukiyoe - an exhibit from KUMON Institute of Education, now only in Japanese
- The Manyo'an Collection - an exhibit of ukiyo-e paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Art Center
- Neko to ukiyo-e (Cat-City Museum) - cats in ukiyo-e
- News Nishikie - a very informative site about the use of colour prints in Meiji newspapers
- Otokoyama - a small exhibit of ukiyo-e prints featuring a brand of sake
- Shusui Taki's Ukiyo-e Gallery - includes a few bijin-ga by old masters, as well as his own prints
- Soba no ukiyo-e - noodles in ukiyo-e, a small collection without comments
- Sushi Encyclopedism - sushi in ukiyo-e prints
- Ukiyo-e - prints on display and information in Japanese
- Ukiyoe - a richly illustrated history of ukiyo-e by Maki Hirotani
- Ukiyo-e: The Floating World - a collection of ukiyo-e and shin-hanga
- Ukiyo-e ni miru nyûyoku scene - bath scenes in ukiyo-e, text in Japanese
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General
- Other
Exhibits
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Illustrated books
(ehon,
kusazôshi)
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Later
Ukiyo-e
and
Shin-hanga
Artists
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Techniques
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Japanese
Print
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Ukiyo-e
Societies
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(Evidently, I cannot vouch for the quality of the products offered by these companies or the reasonableness of their prices. They have been included in this list solely on the merits of their web sites.)
Art dealers with online exhibits
- John Adams Japanese Woodblock Prints, Santa Rosa, California
- Allinson Gallery, Storrs, Connecticut
- The Art of Japan, Mountain View, California
- Artelino, Pullach, Germany
- Arts and Designs of Japan, San Francisco, California
- Robyn Buntin, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Castle Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
- Curious Antiquities, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
- Merlin C. Dailey & Associates, Inc, Victor, New York
- Rolf M Degener Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Edo Prints Gallery, New York
- Edoya Art, Sakurai, Japan
- Herbert Egenolf Gallery
- G Eldridge Antiques, Glastonbury, Connecticut
- L'estampe du Japon en direct, Paris, France
- Floating World Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- Galerie am Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- Galerie Berès, Paris, France
- Galleri ABCD, Malmö, Sweden
- Galleria dell'Incisione, Brescia, Italy
- Gallery Doster, Tübingen, Germany
- Gallery East, Perth, Australia
- Ginkoya, Tokyo, Japan
- Ginreidô, Yokohama, Japan
- Galerie Hafner, Bern, Switzerland
- Hanlin Gallery, Hongkong
- Hara Shobo, Tokyo, Japan
- Harding & Giannini
- Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden, Holland
- Huys den Esch Gallery, Dodewaard, Holland
- Ichiban Japanese Antiques, Marion, Connecticut
- Gallery Inkstone, Hannover, Germany
- Iwasawa Oriental Art, Los Gatos, California
- Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art, New York City
- Japan Gallery, New York
- Japan Print Gallery, London
- Japan Vortex, Chicago, Illinois
- Japanese Gallery, London
- Japanese Prints and Books, Los Angeles, California
- JapanPrints, Evanston, Illinois
- Mattia Jona, Milan, Italy
- Kamimura Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Robin Kennedy Fine Japanese Prints, Richmond, England
- Kichijo, Scotland
- Kitano Oriental Art, Stockholm, Sweden
- Richard Kruml, London
- Gilbert Luber Gallery, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
- Man-Pai Japanese Prints, Almada, Portugal
- Buchhandlung & Antiquariat Mephisto, Unna, Germany
- Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York
- Mita Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Lella e Gianni Morra, Venice, Italy
- Mukashiya, Tokyo, Japan
- A Nobbly Store, Gloucester, Virginia
- Ohya Shobo, Tokyo, Japan
- OsakaPrints.com
- C P J van der Peet bv Japanes Prints, Amsterdam, Holland
- Prints of Japan, Port Townsend, Washington
- Randall Antiques & Fine Art, Gainesville, Florida
- Ronin Gallery, New York City
- Rosensteel Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
- Sairakudo, Tokyo, Japan
- Saru Gallery, Uden, Holland
- Scholten Japanese Art, New York
- Shogun Gallery, Gaithersburg, Maryland
- Gallery Sobi Pallas, Tokyo, Japan
- Solá Gallery, Ithaca, New York
- Carolyn Staley Fine Prints, Seattle, Washington
- Stuart Jackson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Sumisho Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Tanakaya, Paris, France
- Things Japanese, New York City
- Tokugawa Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
- Toshusai, Tokyo, Japan
- Trocadero
- Tsuru Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
- Ukiyo, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Ukiyo-e Gallery, Sigmaringen, Germany
- Ukiyoe-Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon
- Yokoyama Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Zacke,Vienna, Austria
Online auction sales
- Artelino, Pullach, Germany
- Asian Collection Japanese Print Auction, Gloucester, Virginia
- Auction Ukiyo-e, London, England
- eBay Inc, San Jose, California - an extensive Orientalia section with many ukiyo-e prints and reproductions
- Kotobuki, München, Germany
- Kunsthandel Klefisch, Köln, Germany
- Jens Scholz Kunstauktionen, Köln, Germany
- Tokyo Kotenkai Auction
Modern reproductions of old prints
- Adachi Hanga
- Uchida Art Co Ltd
Ukiyo-e postcards and other ukiyo-e-related merchandise
- Bunsei Shoin Booksellers - advertising a CD-ROM with early Meiji ukiyo-e newspapers
- Master Graphique - advertising a "Hokusai CD Rom Anthology" with 300 digital reproductions
- Meibis Co Ltd - 18 CD-ROMs with ukiyo-e
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Ukiyo-e
Dealers
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Auctions
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- Customising Windows with ukiyo-e prints - D E Fix has designed opening screens, wallpaper and screensavers for Windows
- Welcome to Edo-Jo - Ken Matsushima offers a virtual tour of Japan in the Edo period, with numerous ukiyo-e illustrations
- Teaching (and Learning) About Japan
- Lee A Makela's narrative introduction to Japanese culture with lots of interesting links
- Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets) - a classical anthology of Japanese poetry, that has been illustrated by many of the great ukiyo-e masters. This electronic edition includes a colour print by Hokusai and 100 black & white illustrations from a 19th century edition.
- Kabukipedia - the beginnings of a kabuki dictionary
- Kamogawa's Mist - an intriguing short story by António Conceição Júnior
- Monet & Japan - an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Japanese prints: The Dutch in Nagasaki - a collection of prints from The Netherlands Economic-Historical Archive
Web publications on
ukiyo-e and Japanese
culture:
- Essays on ukiyo-e by Dan McKee
- Lorena Overstreet Allen: Japanese Woodblocks (Antiques & Art Around Florida) - an illustrated article on ukiyo-e
- Richard Amero: An Evaluation of the Tale of Genji
- Alan Atkinson: Chushingura: Revenge of the 47 Samurai (Spencer Museum of Art) - a gallery guide for an exhibition
- Merlin C Dailey: Toyokuni - Last Master of the Grand Style
- William J. Farge: Violating Censorship - Humor and Virulence in the Popular Writings of Baba Bunkô (1715-1759)
- Patricia Flynn: Visions of People (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute) - influences of Japanese prints upon late 19th and early 20th century French art
- Amaury García Rodríguez: Modernization in Japan and the Ukiyo-e (Asian Arts Forum)
- Poul Genefke Thye: The Influence of Japanese Art On Western Culture - "how a Japanese prostitute became an image of bourgeois virtue"
- Daan Kok: Blomhoffs ontmoetingen met Edo - a thesis based on a collection of surimono
- Isamu Kurita: Japanese Art and the Japanese View of Nature (MOA Museum of Art) - for a special exhibition of setsugekka, "snow, moon and flowers"
- Kisho Kurokawa: Edo, The Pretext for the Age of Symbiosis (a chapter from The Philosophy of Symbiosis)
- Timothy Mertel: Surimono - Ukiyo-e Refined (L'Asie Exotique)
- Kazuo Oguri, My Life in Tattooing - a Japanese tattoo artist who draws his inspiration from the designs of Kuniyoshi and other ukiyo-e masters
- Masaki Okada: Kabuki Recorded in Ukiyo-e Prints - a useful essay
- William Pinckard, Japanese Prints and the World of Go (Kiseido Publishing Company) - with lots of ukiyo-e illustrations
- Jilly Traganou: The Fireworks of Edo (Architronic) - "The aim of this essay is to compose a synchronous reading of the cities Edo-Tokyo, by proposing a network of links and intersections that set under question the linear development from Edo to Tokyo, or from, what is classified as, Early Modern to Modern Japan."
Yamada Shoji Laboratory: Data Mining of Ukiyo-e - quantitative studies of faces in ukiyo-e, mostly in Japanese
If you are looking for literature on Japanese art and culture, there are also bookshops with WWW catalogues:
- Asian Rare Books in New York
- Boston Book Company in Boston
- Han-Shan Tang Books in London
- The Old Bookroom in Canberra
- Paragon Book Gallery in Chicago
Publishers:
- Hotei Publishing in Leiden, Holland
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