Woodblock Print Artists' Biographies

Kono Bairei (1844-1895)

Series

• Album of Flowers and Birds (1883/1899)
• One Hundred Flowering Plants (1901)

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

Series

• Souvenirs of Travels (1919)
• Twelve Tokyo Subjects (1919)
• Souvenirs of Travels - 2nd Series (1921-1923)
• Twenty Views of Tokyo (1929-1930)
• Souvenirs of Travels - 3rd Series (1929)
• Selections of Views of the Tokaido (1931)
• Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Northeastern Provinces <1934>
• Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Western Provinces <1934>
• Eight Views of Korea (1939)

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Series

• Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido (Hoeido Edition) (1833-1834)
• 'Sanoki' ('Kyoka') Tokaido (late 1830's)
• 'Gyosho' Tokaido (early 1840's)
• 'Kichizo' Tokaido (~1850)
• 'Reisho' ('Marusei') Tokaido (~1850)
• 'Figure' ('Jimbutsu', 'Muraichi') Tokaido (1852)
• 'Upright' Tokaido (1855)
• 8 Views of Omi
• Views of Kyoto (1835)
• Famous Harbours of Japan
• Famous Places of the Sixty-odd Provinces (1853-1856)
• Wrestling Matches Between Mountains and Seas (1858)
• Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1858-1859)
• One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856-1858)

Ichiryusai Shigenobu (Hiroshige II) (1826-1869)

Series

• One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Various Provinces (1859-1861)
• Thirty-Six Views of Eastern Capital (1861-1862)
• Thirty-Six Flowers at Famous Places in Tokyo (1866)

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Series

• Famous Places of Edo (1800)
• Treasury of Loyalty (1806)
• Seven Courtesans (1806)
• The Sketches of Hokusai (1816-1834)
• Shells for Genroku Poems (1821)
• Portraits of Suikoden Heroes (1829)
• Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1829-1833)
• Rare Views of Famous Bridges in All the Provinces (1832-1834)
• A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls (1833-1834)
• Rare Views of Famous Landscapes (1833-1834)
• One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (1834-1835)
• Imagery of the Poets (early 1830's)
• One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (1835-1838)

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949)

Utagawa Kunisada (Tokokuni III) (1786-1865)

Series

• Beauties of the Pleasure Quarter (1809)
• Great Hits of the Stage (1815-1816)
• An Actor Sundial (1816-1817)
• The Hours of the Yoshiwara (circa 1818-1820)
• A Collection of Famous Restaurants of Modern Times (circa 1820)
• Famous Places of Edo (circa 1824-1825)
• Modern Views of Summer (circa 1826)
• Modern Views of Spring (circa 1826-1828)
• Types of the Floating World Seen Through a Physiognomist's Glass (circa 1830)
• Annual Observances at Yoshiwara (early 1830's)
• The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji (1830's)
• Secret Meetings by Moonlight (circa 1836-1838)
• The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (circa 1838)
• Contemporary Stripes Woven to Order (circa 1844-1845)
• Festivals of the Year in the Floating World (mid 1840's)
• Actors at the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (1852)
• Views of Famous Places in Edo (1852)
• An Anthology of Important Places in Great Japan (1852)
• The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso [Highway] (1852)
• An Imaginary Thirty-Six Poets (1852)
• Restaurants of Edo (1852) {With Hiroshige}
• Six Crystal Rivers (1854)
• Eight Views of Lake Biwa (1855)
• The Fifty-Three Stations [of the Tokaido] from Two Brushes (1855) {With Hiroshige}
• Famous Places in Edo and One Hundred Beautiful Women (1857)
• The Fifty-Four Chapters of Genji (1858-1859)
• The Modern Thirty-Two Types (1859)
• Fashionable Mirror Reflections (1859)
• Famous Kabuki Actors Past and Present (1865 - issued posthumously)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

Series

• Illustrated Abridged Biography of the Founder (c. 1831)
• Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (c. 1834)
• Heroes of Our Country's Suikoden (c. 1836)
• Stories of Wise and Virtuous Women (c. 1841-1842)
• Fifty-Three Parallels for the Tokaido (1843-1845)
• Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety (1843-1846)
• Mirror of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety (1844-1846)
• Six Crystal Rivers (1847-1848)
• Twenty-Four Chinese Paragons of Filial Piety (c. 1848)
• Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido (1852)
• Portraits of Samurai of True Loyalty (1852)

Toshusai Sharaku (17??-1801?)

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)

Series

• Views of Actors on Stage (c. 1793)
• Sketches of Seven Elegant Paragons of Beauty (c. 1800)
• Views of Elegant Geisha in Characteristic Poses (c. 1801)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)

Series

• Chosen Poems (1791-1792)
• Ten Types of Women's Physiognomies (1792-1793)
• Famous Beauties of Edo (1792-1793)
• Ten Learned Studies of Women (1792-1793)
• Anthology of Poems: The Love Section (1793-1794)
• Snow, Moon and Flowers of the Green Houses (1793-1795)
• Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day (1794)
• Twelve Hours of the Green Houses (1794-1795)
• Flourishing Beauties of the Present Day (1795-1797)
• An Array of Passionate Lovers (1797-1798)
• Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (1802)

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)

Series

• United States (1925)
• Europe (1925)
• Twelve Scenes in the Japanese Alps (1926)
• Inland Sea (1926-27)
• Ten Views of Fuji (1926-28)
• Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (1926-29)
• Southern Japanese Alps (1928)
• Inland Sea - Second Series (1930)
• India and Southeast Asia (1931-32)
• Four Garden Scenes (1933)
• Kansai District (1933)
• Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (1935)
• Korea and Manchuria (1937)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Series

• One Hundred Ghost Stories of Japan and China (1865-1866)
• Biographies of Modern Men (1865-1866)
• Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verses (1866-1869)
• One Hundred Warriors (1868-1869)
• Biographies of Drunken Valiant Tigers (1874)
• Mirror of Beauties Past and Present (1876)
• Famous Generals of Japan (1876-1882)
• A Collection of Desires (1877)
• Eight Elements of Honor (1878)
• Twenty-Four Hours with the Courtesans of Shimbashi and Yanagibashi (1880)
• Warriors Trembling with Courage (1883-1886)
• One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885-1892)
• Personalities of Recent Times (1886-1888)
• Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners (1888)
• New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (1889-1892)