# Japanese woodblock prints

Ukiyo-e, pictures of the floating world, were made by teams: a publisher, a designer, a carver and a printer who laid each colour from its own block. Cheap in their day and collected avidly in Europe from the 1860s, they shaped Impressionism as much as any painting did.

- [Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/under-the-wave-off-kanagawa-kanagawa-oki-nami-ura-also-known-met-45434), Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/iwai-kumesaburo-ii-as-the-courtesan-takao-in-banzei-okuni-ka-aic-222598), Utagawa Kunisada, c. 1827. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Kingfisher and Chinese Bellflowers](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/kingfisher-and-chinese-bellflowers-cma-101257), Utagawa Hiroshige, early or mid-1830s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/under-the-wave-off-kanagawa-kanagawa-oki-nami-ura-or-the-gre-met-39799), Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Peonies](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/peonies-aic-47580), Kitagawa Utamaro, n.d.. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Kanagawa, Inland Sea: Top of the Street](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/kanagawa-inland-sea-top-of-the-street-cma-120220), Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797–1858. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [“Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,” from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō Nana Komachi)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/hanamurasaki-of-the-tamaya-from-the-series-seven-komachi-of-met-55138), Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1790. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Plants, Porcelain Bowl, and Glass Goblet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/plants-porcelain-bowl-and-glass-goblet-aic-21843), Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1789. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Courtesans at Leisure from the series The Six Immortal Poets](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/courtesans-at-leisure-from-the-series-the-six-immortal-poets-cma-101859), Katsukawa Shunzan, early 1780s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Kinryūsan Temple at Asakusa, from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/kinryusan-temple-at-asakusa-from-the-series-one-hundred-famo-met-56689), Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV in a "Shibaraku" Role, Possibly from the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-actor-ichikawa-danjuro-iv-in-a-shibaraku-role-possibly-f-aic-21839), Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1768. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Tea House Beside the Kamo River in Kyoto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/tea-house-beside-the-kamo-river-in-kyoto-cma-101853), Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697(?)-1756), 1740s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Dutch Woman and Child (Seisha ikoku jinbutsu Oranda fujin aijidō no zu)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dutch-woman-and-child-seisha-ikoku-jinbutsu-oranda-fujin-aij-met-73406), Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide, 1860. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Eight Modern Views of Famous Places in Tokyo of Great Japan (Dai Nippon Tokyo kaika meisho hakkei no zu)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/eight-modern-views-of-famous-places-in-tokyo-of-great-japan-aic-150409), Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV), 1875. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/ichikawa-monnosuke-ii-as-soga-no-goro-cma-101856), Katsukawa Shunkō, 1779. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Tobacco Pouch and Pipe](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/tobacco-pouch-and-pipe-met-54523), Kubo Shunman, 1813. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Precincts of Kameido Tenjin Shrine (Kameido Tenjin keidai), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/precincts-of-kameido-tenjin-shrine-kameido-tenjin-keidai-fro-aic-26607), Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [A Picture of the Viewing in the Pleasure Quarters](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-picture-of-the-viewing-in-the-pleasure-quarters-cma-123141), Kikukawa Eizan, 1810s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Incense Boxes with a Wrapping Cloth](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/incense-boxes-with-a-wrapping-cloth-met-54965), Kubo Shunman, 1808. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Irises at Horikiri (Horikiri no hanashobu), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/irises-at-horikiri-horikiri-no-hanashobu-from-the-series-one-aic-26611), Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [A Picture by Hishikawa Moronobu: Woman with a Set of Poem Cards](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-picture-by-hishikawa-moronobu-woman-with-a-set-of-poem-car-cma-152503), Totoya Hokkei, mid 1820s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Foreigners Enjoying a Party (Gaikokujin yūkyō no zu)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/foreigners-enjoying-a-party-gaikokujin-yukyo-no-zu-met-73488), Utagawa Yoshitora, 1st month, 1861. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Poetess Ono no Komachi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-poetess-ono-no-komachi-aic-20825), Suzuki Harunobu, Edo period (1615–1868), 1767/68. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebizo II as Yanone Goro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/perspective-view-of-the-interior-of-the-nakamura-theater-wit-cma-95401), Okumura Masanobu, 1740. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.