A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet

For information:
• Viewing Japanese Prints - John Fiorillo's encyclopedic articles on various aspects of ukiyo-e, shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga
  
  For images:
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - probably the largest online collection of Japanese prints
• Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University - an image database with more than 46000 prints, Japanese text only
• National Diet Library: Rare Books Image Database - good images of thousands of ukiyo-e prints, Japanese text only
• Tokyo Metropolitan Library - an image database with more than 8000 prints, Japanese text only
• Ritsumeikan University Ukiyo-e Database - with more than 3000 excellent images of ukiyo-e prints - Japanese text (with partial search menu in English available)
• Database of Ukiyo-e held at the Library of Congress - images of more than 2,000 prints
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts - a database of almost 2,000 prints

• Japanese Woodblock Print Search - a common interface for searching many of the largest online ukiyo-e collections of the world, designed by John Resig

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)
• Ogata Gekkô - Meiji Master - by David Humphries

  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
  Hokusai (1760-1849)
• Hokusai Museum, Obuse, Japan
• Hagi Uragami Museum - displaying several Hokusai albums
• 24 Views of Mount Fuji - Tim Eagen has collected images of the 24 Hokusai prints that are featured in a novella by Roger Zelazny
• 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)
• Monika Hinkel: Toyohara Kunichika - a doctoral thesis, in German
• Toyohara Kunichika's Ukiyo-e Prints - an image database of more than 1,700 actor prints
• Digital Museum for Toyohara Kunichika
  Kunisada (1786-1864)
• Kunisada and Kabuki - a virtual gallery from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
• Kunisada Project - Horst Graebner documenting lots of prints and series by the prolific artist
  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 (?-?)
• 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)
• Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - by Noel Chiappa and Jason M Levine
• Sinister Designs: Yoshitoshi Tsukioka - with a number of good images
• Yoshitoshi's Demons - an exhibit from Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Eight views (Hakkei)
• Hiroshige no hakkei-mono - Japanese text only
• Hiroshige's Edo kinko hakkei no uchi (National Diet Library)
• Edo no Iki Gallery: Eight Views (Hakkei)
  Rônin - Chûshingura
• 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
• 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
  Tôkaidô
• Tôkaidô hitoritabi - prints by Hiroshige and modern photos, text in Japanese
• WEB Ukiyo-e - prints by Hiroshige and old photos, text in Japanese

• Art Imagebase of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco - including almost 3,000 ukiyo-e prints

• 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
• Connecticut College Asian Art Collections - with about 50 Japanese prints on display
• 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 more than 6,000 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 more than 5000 prints (though it doesn't work with all web browsers)
• III Library (University of Tokyo) - newspaper prints and others 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
• Japanese Education Iconography - 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
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - an online database with more than 2,000 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
• 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 paintings
• The Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection, University of Pittsburgh - with images of 126 prints by more than 40 artists
• The Collection Rieder, Basel, Switzerland - an interesting exhibit
• 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
• Takamatsu Historical Museum - with an exhibit of prints and paintings depicting the Genpei War
• 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 - "Search the collections", including a number of 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
  
  

• John H Boyd's Ukiyo-e
• Emilio Bujalance's ukiyo-e collection - with lots of good images and a wealth of information in Spanish
• J Noel Chiappa's site - list of print series, censors' seals and a lot of other useful information
• Miniature Japanese Woodblock Prints in the Collection of Gary and Janet Christenson
• Japanese Print Artists - Aykut Gurcaglar's collection, with text in Turkish and English
• Chiho Harada's collection
• Per Hofman Hansen's online exhibit - two prints by Hiroshige I and Hiroshige II
• Randy R Johnson's Woodblock Prints - displaying prints from his collection
• The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints - Irwin Lavenberg displaying prints mostly by Meiji and 20th century artists
• Alexander Nisbet's Virtual Ukiyo-e - a beautifully presented collection of 19th century prints
• Ryôsuke Okano's Gallery - text in Japanese
• Christian Olejarczyk's collection of ukiyo-e
• Les estampes japonaises - prints from Jean-Michel Picolo's collection with text mostly in French
• Ukiyo-e - Japanese Woodblock Prints - John Resig's blog
• László G-Tóth's Ukiyo-e Collection - now with colour pictures of the prints
• Japanese Print Tender - the collection of George Zaidmann

• Japanese Prints - the Cowell-Thackray collection of Japanese woodblock prints, with pages on publishers' seals, artists' signatures and carvers' seals
• Ukiyoe Art Gallery - with lots of information in Japanese
• Go Ukiyo-e Collection - prints illustrating the classical game of Go
• Ciudad de la Pintura - works by 79 Japanese artists, text in Spanish
• 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
• 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 ni miru nyûyoku scene - bath scenes in ukiyo-e, text in Japanese

• Kanazawa College of Art Edehon Database
• Ritsumeikan University Book Database

• Hanga Gallery - featuring signatures, seals and print lists for a number of Japanese 20th century artists
  
• Kuchi-e - Fred Zwegat displays book frontispieces from the late 19th and the early 20th century
  
• ShinHanga.net - a site "devoted to the needs and interests of serious shin hanga collectors"
• Shôtei Gallery - documenting the works of a shin hanga artist
• Woodblock Printmaker David Bull - this site does not really fit in any of these categories, but it is something very special
  
• Ukiyoe-Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon - with a library of reference articles, mostly on 20th century prints and artists

• The Baren Encyclopedia of Woodblock Printmaking - edited by printmaker David Bull
• Hiroshi Yabuki: Ukiyo-e no seisaku kôtei - only in Japanese, but with many instructive pictures
• The Art of Coloured Woodblock Printmaking - demonstrated in a video by Graham Scholes
  

• The International Ukiyo-e Society - mostly Japanese text
• Japanese Art Society of America
• Society for Japanese Arts

(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
• L'estampe du Japon en direct, Paris, France
• Floating World Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Galerie am Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• 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
• 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
• Kitano Oriental Art, Helsinki, Finland
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Signens Kunstauktionen, Köln, Germany

  Modern reproductions of old prints

• Adachi Hanga
• Uchida Art Co Ltd

  Ukiyo-e postcards and other ukiyo-e-related merchandise

• Meibis Co Ltd - 18 CD-ROMs with ukiyo-e

• Welcome to Edo-Jo - Ken Matsushima offers a virtual tour of Japan in the Edo period, with numerous ukiyo-e illustrations
• 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.
  
• 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:
• Lorena Overstreet Allen: Japanese Woodblocks (Antiques & Art Around Florida) - an illustrated article on ukiyo-e
• Merlin C Dailey: Toyokuni I - Last Master of the Grand Style
• 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"
• Kisho Kurokawa: Edo, The Pretext for the Age of Symbiosis (a chapter from The Philosophy of Symbiosis)
• Kazuo Oguri, My Life in Tattooing - a Japanese tattoo artist who draws his inspiration from the designs of Kuniyoshi and other ukiyo-e masters
• 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
  
• Asia Bookroom in Canberra
  
• Paragon Book Gallery in Chicago
  

These sites were not accessible, when last checked. If you have any information about their present whereabouts, please contact me. Most of the links below have been redirected to the Internet Archive, where at least parts of these sites are still stored.
• Prints by Hirosada - the web pages are still there, but the images have been deleted (2005-02-23)
• Japanese Women Artists - including some female ukiyo-e printmakers (2005-02-23)
• The Quest for Entertainment and Enlightenment in Tokugawa Japan's Urban Centers (Colby College Museum of Art) (2005-02-23)
• Toyokuni II: Meisho Hakkei - seven of the prints exhibited by the National Diet Library (2005-07-31)
• Fay E Beauchamp: The Significant Trifle: Form and Meaning in Hiroshige, Monet and Van Gogh (Asian Studies Development Program) (2006-10-07)
• Shodai Utagawa Toyokuni ten - with numerous images and signature examples, text in Japanese (2006-10-11)
• Mie Kenritsu Hakubutsukan - with an online exhibit of Tôkaidô prints by various artists, depicting Kuwana, Yokkaichi and Kameyama (2006-10-11)
• Library of the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo - with a large display of namazu-e, Japanese text only (2006-10-11)
• Silk Ukiyoe Gallery - an exhibit from the Silk Laboratory of Shinshu University (2006-10-11)
• Hakone Town Official Homepage - with a number of ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige and others (2006-10-11)
• I manga di Hokusai - analysis of the 15 volumes of Hokusai Manga by Silvia Faccioli, in Italian (2012-08-05)
• Hokusai's Manga, vol 1 (2012-08-05)
• Hokusai World - presented by Uragami Sôkyu-Dô Co, Ltd (2012-08-05)
• The Art of Ogata Gekko - by Robert W. Turley (2012-08-05)
• Toshidama - Kunisada series explored by Theo de Kreijger (2012-08-05)
• Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library - displaying a number of Kunisada prints from the collection of Juntaro Kamimura (2012-08-05)
• Monika Hinkel: Toyohara Kunichika - a doctoral thesis, in German (2012-08-05)
• The Mystery of Toshusai Sharaku (2012-08-06)
• Kanazawa hakkei, a Hiroshige series presented by T Hirose - Japanese text (2012-08-06)
• 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 (2012-08-06)
• Jan Cock Blomhoff's collection of surimono presented by Daan Kok (2012-08-06)
• Two Views of Kabuki - a virtual exhibition of kabuki prints by Kuniaki and Fusatane, from the Viriginia Museum of Fine Arts (2012-08-06)
• Nishiki-e de miru kabuki - kabuki prints presented by Waifu Seijuro, text in Japanese (2012-08-06)
• Tôkaidô - two complete series from the 1860s, presented by Fabio Vitali - text in Italian (2012-08-06)
• Edo Ukiyoe World - Yukio Nagano's site, featuring a nice collection of ukiyo-e prints (2013-01-16)
• The Tobacco & Salt Museum - exhibiting prints related to tobacco and smoking (2013-01-18)
• Y's Art Gallery - Yasumasa Nakano's unusual collection of prints and paintings (2013-01-18)
• Cats in Japanese prints (2013-01-18)
• Kyoto Art & Culture Club of Ukiyoe - Japanese text only (2013-01-18)
• The ETC Web Museum - featuring an exhibition of Japanese prints (2013-01-19)
• Kushigata Shunsen Museum of Art - fine actor portraits and other works by Natori Shunsen (2013-01-22)
• Masami Teraoka's Art Theater - featuring the amazing works by this Japanese-American artist, who uses the styles of mid-19th century ukiyo-e in a modern context (2013-01-22)