Ukiyo-e






Works in this room
Japanese woodblock prints of the floating world: actors, courtesans, landscapes and the sea.
Section 1, north wall

Two Girls on a Veranda beside a Stream with the MoonSuzuki HarunobuCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Table and Writing SetKubo Shunman, 19th centuryCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
American Woman Riding Side-Saddle on the Road at Honmoku, Motomura, Yokohama (America Yokohama Motomura Honmoku michi)Utagawa Hiroshige II, 2nd month, 1861Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 1, south wall

Iris GardenKatsukawa Shunchô, c. 1781/89Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago 
A View of the Large New Room at SakuraiUtagawa Kunisada, early or mid 1830sCourtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, January, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Section 2, south wall

The Actor Onoye Matsusuke as a RoninTōshūsai SharakuCourtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji: The Surface of Lake Misaka in Kai ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai, early 1830sCourtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Kanagawa in Musashi Province: Distant View of Yokohama (Yokohama enbo), from the series Calligraphy and Pictures for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Shoga gojusan eki)Utagawa Yoshimori, 1982Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Section 2, north wall

Kanō, from the series Sixty-nine Stations of the KisokaidōUtagawa Hiroshige, c. 1835–37Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Passengers in a Ferry Boat on the Sumida RiverTorii Kiyonaga, 1784Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Viewing the MoonSuzuki Harunobu, c. 1767/68Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Section 3, north wall

Catching FirefliesEishosai Choki, c.1790sCourtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago 
Flower ArrangingKitao Shigemasa, c. 1769Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Section 3, south wall

Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebizo II as Yanone GoroOkumura Masanobu, 1740Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art 
Sei Shonagon, from the series Ancient Patterns (Kodai moyo)Kobayashi Kiyochika, Meiji period (1896–1912), 1896Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago