Ukiyo-e | Japanese Woodblock Prints | Ronin Gallery

Explore the largest collection of 17th-19th century original Japanese woodblock prints in the United States at Ronin Gallery. Ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” captured the exciting urban popular culture of the Edo period (1603-1868), promoting its beauty, fashions and heroes. While the Buddhist term ukiyo originally emphasized the transitory nature of human life, during the 17th century the term gradually shifted its reference to the ephemeral world of pleasure and indulgence. From 17th century Buddhist woodcuts through 19th century Japanese ukiyo-e print masters, enter a vibrant world of enchanting landscapes and sublime nature studies by Hokusai and Hiroshige, dramatic kabuki actors by Sharaku and Toyokuni, fierce samurai by Kuniyoshi, and elegant beauties by Utamaro. With the ravages of time, war and fire, today few of these precious original Japanese woodblock prints survive outside of museums and important private collections.

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Price

78000500

Artist

  • Chikanobu
  • Gekko
  • Harunobu
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Shigemasa
  • Shunsho
  • Toshikage
  • Toshikata
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Poems Explained by the Nurse
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Hokusai)
  • Mountains upon Mountains

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Shunga
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Ehon
  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)

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Ehon Toshien Gogonzekku (Selected Chinese Poems in Five Syllables)

Hokusai

Ehon Toshien Gogonzekku (Selected Chinese Poems in Five Syllables)

JPR-211092

$660.00
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Kyoto

Hokusai

Kyoto

JPR-210536

$500.00
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Poem by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason

Hokusai

Poem by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason

JPR-209999

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Poem by Funya no Asayasu

Hokusai

Poem by Funya no Asayasu

JP-208847

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Young Man Setting Out

Hokusai

Young Man Setting Out

JP-208846

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Sei Shonagon

Hokusai

Sei Shonagon

JP-208845

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Poem by Yamabe no Akahito

Hokusai

Poem by Yamabe no Akahito

JPR-208593

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Gathering Rushes

Hokusai

Gathering Rushes

JP-208535

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Poem by Jito Tenno

Hokusai

Poem by Jito Tenno

JPR-207916

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Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason

Hokusai

Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason

JP-207888

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Farmer and Two Young Women and Child on a Country Road

Hokusai

Farmer and Two Young Women and Child on a Country Road

JP-209085

$900.00
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