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

16200060

Artist

  • Bairei
  • Chikanobu
  • Chikuseki
  • Gekko
  • Harunobu
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hiroshige III
  • Hoitsu
  • Hokusai
  • Ikeda, Terukata
  • Ikuhide
  • Keinen
  • Kiyochika
  • Koryusai
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kunitoshi
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Nobukazu
  • Rinsai
  • Sadahide
  • Shunman
  • Sugakudo
  • Suzuki, Kason
  • Takehisa, Yumeji
  • Tanigami, Konan
  • Toshikata
  • Toshimine
  • Toyokuni III
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist
  • Utamaro
  • Yasuda, Shodo
  • Yoshifusa
  • Yoshikata
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshimori
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Yoshitoyo
  • Zeshin

Series

  • 100 Famous Views in the Various Provinces
  • 100 Famous Views of Edo
  • 100 Pictures by Kyosai
  • 100 Poems by 100 Poets (Kuniyoshi)
  • 36 Ghosts and Strange Apparitions
  • 48 Hawks Drawn from Life (Sugakudo)
  • 68 Views of the Various Provinces
  • Bairei's Flowers and Birds
  • Beauties of the Green Houses Compared
  • Book of Selected Insects
  • Daily Practice of the Tea Ceremony
  • Famous Places in the 60-Odd Provinces
  • Hokusai Manga
  • Keinen's Flowers & Birds
  • Tale of Genji (Gekko)
  • Women's Activities of the Tokugawa Era

Subject

  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido
  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architecture
  • Autumn
  • Bijin-ga (Beauties)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Cityscapes
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Ghosts, Demons, & Yokai
  • Insects
  • Kaika-e (Enlightenment Prints)
  • Kuchi-e (Frontispieces)
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Senso-e (War Prints)
  • Shunga (Erotic Prints)
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Summer
  • Sumo & Martial Arts
  • Surimono
  • Tale of Genji
  • Tattoo
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls & Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1600 - 1800 (Early Edo)
  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)
  • 1912 - 1945 (Taisho & Early Showa)

Medium

  • Ehon
  • Woodblock Print

Size

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