Japanese Art

Portraits of courtesans, actors, and brides sit alongside studies of birds, bamboo, and horses, each rendered with fine outlines and quiet, posed stillness. Figures on verandas smoke pipes or tune a shamisen, while birds perch among pine and peacocks in soft, muted color. Together they reflect Japanese Art's attention to everyday grace and the natural world.

Three Actors in their Roles, from the series Stories of the Heroes of the Suikoden (Tosei Suikoden) by Utagawa Kunisada
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Japanese artwork depicting white and black cranes among green reeds against a gold background with flying birds above.
Suzuki Kiitsu
Reeds and Cranes
Colors on gilded silk

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Japanese woodblock print depicting a seated courtesan in profile wearing white kimono with decorative patterns, accompanied by sake branding cartouches and botanical elements.
The courtesan Hanazuma of Hyogoya, illustration from the series 'Brands of sake linked with six selected courtesans'
colour woodblock print on paper

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A child wrestling with a large carp in water, rendered in Japanese woodblock print style with blues, browns, and flesh tones.
Kaidomaru Wrestling a Carp in a Cascade
colour woodblock print

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A detailed woodblock print depicting a carp swimming among aquatic plants in shades of black, gray, and cream.
Carp Among Pond Plants
colour woodblock print

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Two women in patterned robes sit on a red platform indoors with a black cat nearby and a landscape visible through an open window.
Geese descending on the Koto Bridges, illustration from the series 'Eight fashionable parlour views'
colour woodblock print

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A profile portrait of a woman wearing an elaborate white headdress and red and cream patterned garment against a pale yellow background.
Kitano Tsunetomi
Bride
hanging scroll, ink and colours on silk

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A vertical Japanese painting depicting birds among flowering vines and plants on a pale yellow background, rendered in muted greens, blues, and browns.
Suzuki Kiitsu
Birds and flowers
1855 · hanging scroll, colour on silk
A Japanese woodblock print depicting a hairdresser arranging a client's hair, rendered in black ink with gray and red accents on a cream background.
Hairdresser, illustration from the series 'Twelve types of women's handicraft'
colour woodcut on paper

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Two women in patterned kimonos stand on a street lined with blue-fronted shops beneath a dark wooden roof structure.
Wholesalers of cotton fabrics at Otemma Street, illustration from the series 'On hundred famous views of Edo'
1858 · colour woodcut on paper

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Japanese woodblock print depicting three figures in traditional dress arranged vertically, rendered in black ink on cream paper.
Kitagawa Utamaro
A triple portrait of Ohan of the Shinanoya, Choemon and his wife Okinu
Color woodblock print

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Three figures with styled black hair wearing patterned clothing in blue, red, and green tones, arranged closely together against a cream background.
Kitagawa Utamaro
Three young men or women
1780 · Woodcut

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Japanese woodblock print depicting a woman in white robes praying beneath a cascading waterfall rendered in shades of blue.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Hatsuhana in prayer under the Gongen waterfall at Hakone, illustration from the series 'Stories of wise women and faithful wives', Edo Period
colour woodcut on paper

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Two women in kimonos stand on a platform overlooking a yellow landscape with snowy mountains under a red roof structure.
Suzuki Harunobu
A Poem on the Autumn Moon by Kisen Hoshi
color woodblock print

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Two figures in traditional Japanese dress search for fireflies at night, holding a lantern among autumn plants against a dark background.
Suzuki Harunobu
Searching for Fireflies
1768 · Color woodblock print, chūban

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Three women in colorful kimono wade in shallow water near yellow flowers and green vegetation in this woodblock print.
Suzuki Harunobu
The Jewel River at Ide

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Two women in patterned kimonos play a koto stringed instrument in an interior space with architectural elements in muted purples, browns, and golds.
Suzuki Harunobu
Playing the Koto

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Japanese woodblock print depicting three figures in traditional dress performing with a large drum and pole near a red wooden structure.
Suzuki Harunobu
The Second Month
Color Woodblock print

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Two women in patterned robes sit on a wooden verandah gazing at a blossoming tree, rendered in warm browns, oranges, and black ink.
Suzuki Harunobu
Two Women Seated By a Verandah

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Two figures in elaborate robes stand on a wooden platform; one gazes outward while the other looks upward, rendered in black ink with yellow and gold accents.
Suzuki Harunobu
A Courtesan and Her Kamuro

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Japanese woodblock print depicting a spring landscape with blooming cherry trees, a bridge, water, buildings, and Mount Fuji in the distance.
Andō Hiroshige
Evening Glow at Koganei Bridge
1838

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Japanese woodblock print depicting Mount Fuji in distance with boats and pine trees along a bay coastline in blues, greens, and earth tones.
Andō Hiroshige
Kuroto Bay in Kazusa Province, no. 34 from Views of Mt. Fuji
1858

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A botanical illustration depicting a white peony with red stamens and a pink peony surrounded by green and brown foliage against a pale background.
Oda Kazuma
Peonies (Botan)
1924 · Color woodblock print

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Japanese woodblock print showing a rainy harbor scene with boats, a wooden structure, and figures viewing the waterfront in blue and brown tones.
Oda Kazuma
View of Mihonoseki, Izumo
1925 · Color woodblock print

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A snowy landscape with women holding umbrellas near a bridge over blue water, mountains in the background, and buildings on the right.
Oda Kazuma
Matsuye Bridge in Snow (Matsuye Ohashi)
1924 · Color woodblock print

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